Tyre advise please

fatbelly

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.

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.

Yes it's sensible to look for good wet grip as that's where the big difference is between premium and budget tyres.

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2023-Tyre-Reviews-Summer-Tyre-Test.htm

The official rating isn't as much use as actual tests. You will see that brands like kumho and hankook can be up there with the best and sell at competitive prices

Also definitely look at all-seasons where you tend to get good wet grip and some snow/ice ability

HillStreetBlues

tifo said:

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.

It was Kwiw fit.(made a typo with the pence).
I'm out in the sticks, so even if got it for a tenner in the next town wouldn't save much as  fuel would counterbalance it, so need to stay local.

Bigphil1474

OP, my lad's car is currently parked up on a relatives drive while he is working away this year. I take it for a run out every week. It has a slow puncture on the front near side. Every couple of weeks I put some air in it. Goes down from about 36psi to 30 psi in 2 weeks. No intention of getting it fixed or replaced until it needs a new tyre.

HillStreetBlues

Bigphil1474 said:

OP, my lad's car is currently parked up on a relatives drive while he is working away this year. I take it for a run out every week. It has a slow puncture on the front near side. Every couple of weeks I put some air in it. Goes down from about 36psi to 30 psi in 2 weeks. No intention of getting it fixed or replaced until it needs a new tyre.

Checked mine and  it's about 35 to 30 in a week, so will have to sort it out.
But in MSE fashion  will leave it till next in town, to save a one off trip.

Ditzy_Mitzy

WellKnownSid said:

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.

My mileage was somewhat curtailed by a very cheap tyre.  I was young, daft and insufficiently versed in the effects of cut price tyres on front end traction.  Approaching a bend I turned the wheel, the steering worked but somehow the tyres lost grip completely.  The car ploughed on in a straight line and smashed into the opposite kerb.  Did a fair amount of damage.  

Lesson learned, I have stuck to middle of the road sorts of tyres ever since.  They have repaid me in spades by sticking doggedly to the middle of the road.  Falken, Hankook, Firestone et. al. make decent tyres that won't break the bank.  Pay a little bit more, get four the same and replace with the same type when one wears out.  

HillStreetBlues

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

My mileage was somewhat curtailed by a very cheap tyre.  I was young, daft and insufficiently versed in the effects of cut price tyres on front end traction.  Approaching a bend I turned the wheel, the steering worked but somehow the tyres lost grip completely.  The car ploughed on in a straight line and smashed into the opposite kerb.  Did a fair amount of damage.  

Lesson learned, I have stuck to middle of the road sorts of tyres ever since.  They have repaid me in spades by sticking doggedly to the middle of the road.  Falken, Hankook, Firestone et. al. make decent tyres that won't break the bank.  Pay a little bit more, get four the same and replace with the same type when one wears out.  

When I was younger and dafter than I am now, I lost the back end turning into a side road, amazingly no one else about, as the time I did it was normally very busy. No damage to car or myself (apart from being shook up).
Mine was speed, maybe some part was the tyres.
It did teach me to change my driving style in the wet, so lesson learnt.


Thinking about it I have mostly driven on budget tyres as those seem to come with the type of car I buy and the name on tyre means nothing to me. My two front current ones are a Goodyear & Michelin and I actually have heard of the brand.

prettyandfluffy

Costco is a good source of reasonably priced, good quality tyres if you (or a friend) are a member.

HillStreetBlues

prettyandfluffy said:

Costco is a good source of reasonably priced, good quality tyres if you (or a friend) are a member.

I don't know anyone who is a member, but it would be a 150 mile round trip anyway.