Tyre advise please

Nobbie1967

baser999 said:

Would never skimp on tyres . As @tacpot12 has said, they’re the only point of contact with you and the road so why risk fitting cheap tyres. 

Because they’re cheap and this is a money saving website. People really do go overboard on the risks of running budget tyres. So much pearl clutching.

baser999

Nobbie1967 said:

baser999 said:

Would never skimp on tyres . As @tacpot12 has said, they’re the only point of contact with you and the road so why risk fitting cheap tyres. 

Because they’re cheap and this is a money saving website. People really do go overboard on the risks of running budget tyres. So much pearl clutching.

Just voicing a personal opinion. Is that not allowed? Thought this was also a forum? 

WellKnownSid

Back of the envelope - I've driven over 750,000 miles since learning to drive, so have easily travelled over half a million miles on budget tyres but curiously not ended up in a ditch once.  Your mileage may vary.

HillStreetBlues

Thank you for your replies, gives me food for thought.

I see tyres are rated for fuel efficiency, noise & wet grip.  Different sites have the same rating so I expect it's not the site making up their own numbers.
The first two I don't care about, I don't do the mileage to make any read difference with fuel  and with the noise that's what's the radio is for.
So will avoid any tyre below a B rating for wet grip.

Both back tyres are Farroad and most they have done is 13k miles and came with car . There doesn't seem to be that much info on them but what I have found out is they are budget one, so I see little point in a repair (different matter if they were £200 ones)

Would I be wise  to have both replaced, or just one with the puncture?
I know this may well be a person view.

If it wasn't for the puncture I wouldn't have even bothered looking for other tyres as condition & tread are fine.

sevenhills

HillStreetBlues said:

Thank you for your replies, gives me food for thought.

I see tyres are rated for fuel efficiency, noise & wet grip.  Different sites have the same rating so I expect it's not the site making up their own numbers.
The first two I don't care about, I don't do the mileage to make any read difference with fuel  and with the noise that's what's the radio is for.
So will avoid any tyre below a B rating for wet grip.

A tyre with better grip in the wet, could have poor grip in dry weather.

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre-Type/Passenger-Car-Summer-Max-Performance-Tyres/

tifo

HillStreetBlues said:

I think I have a slow puncture on NSR so keeping my eye on it.

Looking at the cost of a puncture repair it's about £27.70.   A new budget tyre is about £50

£27.70 for a puncture repair? That seems excessive as i've never been charged more than £10 inc balancing or £7 without, which used to be £5 ish in many tyre places, some are still £5 without balancing esp if it's local and you buy from them regularly.

HillStreetBlues

tifo said:

HillStreetBlues said:

I think I have a slow puncture on NSR so keeping my eye on it.

Looking at the cost of a puncture repair it's about £27.70.   A new budget tyre is about £50

£27.70 for a puncture repair? That seems excessive as i've never been charged more than £10 inc balancing or £7 without, which used to be £5 ish in many tyre places, some are still £5 without balancing esp if it's local and you buy from them regularly.

I didn't  check other prices (very non-MSE)
I e-mailed the 2 local tyre places both were £18 so about 35%  of a new tyre, so that does make a repair more attractive.

theoretica

Do you have confidence it is actually a puncture?  Last slow leak I had was the valve and cost next to nothing to get sorted.

HillStreetBlues

theoretica said:

Do you have confidence it is actually a puncture?  Last slow leak I had was the valve and cost next to nothing to get sorted.

Nope, I haven't a clue, didn't give a valve issue a thought.

tifo

HillStreetBlues said:

I e-mailed the 2 local tyre places both were £18 so about 35%  of a new tyre, so that does make a repair more attractive.

£18 is still expensive. Try driving to a few local independent tyre places and asking. Pay no more than £10, there's nothing to it and depending where the air leak is, it can take them 20 mins to take tyre off, repair and put tyre back on, maybe 5 more mins if it needs balancing.

The £27.50 you quoted is kwikfit.