What Tyres?

[steve_earwig]

That probably reflects on the age of the tyres, not they're crapness. My D9 came with Couriers (I think) which never seemed to be wearing out but had all the grip of a wet fart. I was rather relieved to see they were starting to crack up and I had an excuse to bin them. The spare on the back of the toy otter has never been on the road, which makes it 8 years old - ok for a spare I guess Oh, and the Bridgestone Battleaxes on my bike have only seen a couple of thousand miles if that but, seeing as I had them put on 9 years ago, I'd be mad not to change them

Someone (can't be bothered to scroll up, sorry) mentioned putting the original tyres on the a-pillar label back on the car, which seems like a smart idea if the car was originally set up on them. That was what my dad reckoned and the car got a set of Michelin Energy Savers all round (Michelin Energys not being made any more). However, after spending time with my mate changing tyres in the workshop, I've realised if any tyre really shows how important the age of a tyre is and why you should change them before they get too old, it's Michelin So, if you don't do too many miles, avoid them. I reckon I'd be tempted to give the tyres with the rude sounding name as recommended by Mssr. Wellington a whirl.

[Bailes1992]

Michellin Energy X and Michellin Energy Savers are the same with a new name
My spare is the former and I currently have 4x the latter and they are identicle.

Not a bad tyre I must admit, but abit pricey.
Think when these wear out I will go for 5x falken Ziex 912's.

[OdinEidolon]

Michellin Energy X and Michellin Energy Savers are the same with a new name
My spare is the former and I currently have 4x the latter and they are identicle.

Not a bad tyre I must admit, but abit pricey.
Think when these wear out I will go for 5x falken Ziex 912's.

The rubber is different, the design is the same.
Not a bad tyre? They are the worst thing I've ever had on my wheels, absolute rubbish.
Only two years old were hard as a rock, hissed on the dry and on the wet they were totally unreliable. Never again.

Luckily I managed to get rid of all 4 of them for 60£. My goodyears, despite being winter tyres, are on another planet.

(proved by tests by ADAC, tcs, ... etc)

[Bailes1992]

Michellin Energy X and Michellin Energy Savers are the same with a new name
My spare is the former and I currently have 4x the latter and they are identicle.

Not a bad tyre I must admit, but abit pricey.
Think when these wear out I will go for 5x falken Ziex 912's.

The rubber is different, the design is the same.
Not a bad tyre? They are the worst thing I've ever had on my wheels, absolute rubbish.
Only two years old were hard as a rock, hissed on the dry and on the wet they were totally unreliable. Never again.

Luckily I managed to get rid of all 4 of them for 60£. My goodyears, despite being winter tyres, are on another planet.

(proved by tests by ADAC, tcs, ... etc)

Maybe they just don't cope well with age? I'm happy with them at the moment and both the 4 Savers and the Standard Energy spare all feel to have the same hardness in rubber.
I always replace tyres in pairs and the best tyres go on the back.
So when the front Michellins run out I will put the michells from the back on the front and get Falkens put on the rear. Then when the last set of michellins run out I will put the falkens from the rear on the front and put new falkens on the rear.

Somewhere during that I will get a new 15" Nimrod and put a Falken on that too. I like having all the same tyres

[Archangel]

I`ve always found Michelins to suit me , besides Costco do them at about £70 a corner just down the road from me

[Gary406]

you need to re-morgage to buy tyres from costco bloody expensive

i use triangle sport budget tyres size 205/60/16. had 4 brand new ones fitted a few thousand miles ago and they still seem new.

cost me £220 for all 4 corners fitted and balanced.

[lozz]

Anyone heard of Mabor 'sport jet' tyres?

thats what ive got on the citroen, ive a feeling there Ditch finders,

look almost brand new but somethings not right with them

[grasmere59]

I actually settled for a set of 4 tyres 205/55/16 called "evergreen eu72",got them used off ebay for £150 delivered and they'd only done 50 miles and still had the tits on them.I had a look at Camskill and they were in the mid range not budget range priced up with the Avon's etc,seem good up to now.

[OdinEidolon]

Buy decent tyres guys... not cheap ones. With tyres, you get what you pay for, sadly.

[lozz]

Que ?

[OdinEidolon]

Que ?

What?

[lozz]

Your Quote on tyres was abit harsh mate, ithink

[grasmere59]

I use Goodtear F1 assy's on my BMW as it's a performance car but i feel a mid range tyre on a family estate is adaquate for my needs.

[lozz]

ican see odins point, but that came over abit harsh to me,

atm idont know what the tyres are like on mine, they apear to be new but, unsure (Never heard of that make, )
but if they are shite they will be getting replaced with Budget ones,

[OdinEidolon]

ican see odins point, but that came over abit harsh to me,

atm idont know what the tyres are like on mine, they apear to be new but, unsure (Never heard of that make, )
but if they are shite they will be getting replaced with Budget ones,

I do not mean to be harsh, sorry, sometimes the language barrier means I cannot expess me as I'd like to.
My point is this: two things are keeping you from crashing: brakes and tyres. I never save on those. Having tested on my own skin what a cheap tyre can cause (3300€s of damage to my mum's new clio, luckily no one got hurt... chinese tyres on the wet, you know) I always suggest to use good tyres.
That's what my relatively small experience tells me, only that!