Harry Monk:
I put £50 cheapie tyres on my cars, never had a problem with them wearing excessively, going flat or losing traction. I don’t tend to drive like a loon though. I think with premium brand tyres you are paying quite a bit towards some Formula 1 driver’s luxury apartment and yacht in Monaco.
Think you got a point there Harry
He would have had a point were it not for the fact that all the F1 tyres are supplied by Pirelli…
Yes, no Chinese rubbish for them. Oh wait a minute, who owns Pirelli ? Well the China National Chemical Corp of course
I think the best way to go is mid range / lower level premium tyre or whatever you want to call them, like Hankook, Uniroyal etc. and change them well before the legal limit. I think the temptation can be, with some people, to run the likes of Michelins too long. A “lower level” tyre with twice the tread I would have thought was a better bet than a Michelin with 2mm. Also if you do have a puncture it’s an easier decision to replace the pair on an axle with less costly tyres.
Just as an aside, is it my eyes or is that tyre fitter in the youtube clip taking chances with his fingers
Uniroyal Rainsport less than £60 fitted on my A class. 4 months later they allowed me to steer away from a wall on wet grass after I was punted off the road.
Enough said.
malcolmgbell:
What I under stand from delivering pw,in containers is that they come from Germany and places were there rules are more strick
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This.
The UK has a very low 1.6mm minimum tread depth, other parts of Europe are much higher. Far better to fit premium part worns like Bridgestone/ Michelin/ Avon ect than cheap budget chinese tyres…
Excluding winter tyre requirements, which European countries have a minimum depth of more than 1.6mm?
Its the winter tyres of Austria/ Germany /Austria which must have a minimum of 4mm where most of the part worns will come from. I believe in the UK its legal winter tyres can be used all year round…
I said excluding winter tyre requirements, and are most part worns really winter tyres?
milodon:
It’s been proven and also widely used that fear is what drives people to hand out their money for things they really don’t have the need for most effectively.
Obviously the advertisement agencies have done a splendid job to get people to believe in crap like “no price is high enough for the safety of my family”.
My wife’s car runs on Nankang tyres in summer and studded Firestones in the winter. My Volvo has Nordexx summer tyres and Hankook studs for winter. But then again, seeing as I don’t drive my family around in an armored Hummer I don’t care too much for them anyway, right?
This. I personally buy part worns as I do so little milage they normally outlast my ownership of the car. That will charge though once I’ve saved up for a Discovery 3. That will have chunky BF Goodrich all round with steel wheels. They are far and away the best off road tyres in my opinion
General (owned by Continental) Grabbers are a better tyre for less money mate. I have run Land Rovers since 1984, I remember the scandal involving BFG when they had all those blowouts that were blamed on manufacturing. This problem still exists, and I believe they had another recall in 2015. I have run BFG’S years ago but wouldn’t touch them again.
milodon:
It’s been proven and also widely used that fear is what drives people to hand out their money for things they really don’t have the need for most effectively.
Obviously the advertisement agencies have done a splendid job to get people to believe in crap like “no price is high enough for the safety of my family”.
My wife’s car runs on Nankang tyres in summer and studded Firestones in the winter. My Volvo has Nordexx summer tyres and Hankook studs for winter. But then again, seeing as I don’t drive my family around in an armored Hummer I don’t care too much for them anyway, right?
This. I personally buy part worns as I do so little milage they normally outlast my ownership of the car. That will charge though once I’ve saved up for a Discovery 3. That will have chunky BF Goodrich all round with steel wheels. They are far and away the best off road tyres in my opinion
Pirelli scorpion ATR is a very good all round tyre for the D3 and is meant to be good for 40k, the pirelli zeros on the other hand last 15k at best!
I want proper chunky off road tyres though as I hope to use it properly off road a fair bit and don’t want to be too embarrassed by my Dad’s Series 1, my brothers Series 3 or Uncles Defender 90! Land Rovers run in the family just as much as trucks and this industry does
milodon:
It’s been proven and also widely used that fear is what drives people to hand out their money for things they really don’t have the need for most effectively.
Obviously the advertisement agencies have done a splendid job to get people to believe in crap like “no price is high enough for the safety of my family”.
My wife’s car runs on Nankang tyres in summer and studded Firestones in the winter. My Volvo has Nordexx summer tyres and Hankook studs for winter. But then again, seeing as I don’t drive my family around in an armored Hummer I don’t care too much for them anyway, right? [emoji38]
This. I personally buy part worns as I do so little milage they normally outlast my ownership of the car. That will charge though once I’ve saved up for a Discovery 3. That will have chunky BF Goodrich all round with steel wheels. They are far and away the best off road tyres in my opinion
Pirelli scorpion ATR is a very good all round tyre for the D3 and is meant to be good for 40k, the pirelli zeros on the other hand last 15k at best!
I want proper chunky off road tyres though as I hope you use it properly off road a fair bit and don’t want to be too embarrassed by my Dad’s Series 1, my brothers Series 3 or Uncles Defender 90! Land Rovers run in the family just as much as trucks and this industry does
I had a tricked up disco years ago. Paid about 4k to trick it up. Then bought a bog standard series 3 lightweight. Went everywhere out performed disco by miles.
Yeah I know they will be better off road but I’m happy to compromise as I need something that’s a comfortable motorway cruiser. I rarely do short journeys, when I get in car its usually for a trip of at least 3 hours
milodon:
It’s been proven and also widely used that fear is what drives people to hand out their money for things they really don’t have the need for most effectively.
Obviously the advertisement agencies have done a splendid job to get people to believe in crap like “no price is high enough for the safety of my family”.
My wife’s car runs on Nankang tyres in summer and studded Firestones in the winter. My Volvo has Nordexx summer tyres and Hankook studs for winter. But then again, seeing as I don’t drive my family around in an armored Hummer I don’t care too much for them anyway, right?
This. I personally buy part worns as I do so little milage they normally outlast my ownership of the car. That will charge though once I’ve saved up for a Discovery 3. That will have chunky BF Goodrich all round with steel wheels. They are far and away the best off road tyres in my opinion
Pirelli scorpion ATR is a very good all round tyre for the D3 and is meant to be good for 40k, the pirelli zeros on the other hand last 15k at best!
I want proper chunky off road tyres though as I hope to use it properly off road a fair bit and don’t want to be too embarrassed by my Dad’s Series 1, my brothers Series 3 or Uncles Defender 90! Land Rovers run in the family just as much as trucks and this industry does
Hand on heart a D3 on sensible tyre will show the rest up with no problems, amazing cars.
Ive got a s2 and a 90 both are hard work to drive as a a daily, whereas the D3 just wafts along.
Your link doesn’t work, however, the link to this story, posted previously in this thread by my good self, does indeed work. Feel free to peruse at your leisure, much love,glad to help,
muckles:
As for those saying he should buy something he can afford to run, what business is it of yours what he drives?
You have to share the road with someone who owns a powerful car they can’t afford to maintain. Tyres, brakes, steering, suspension, all of these are expensive on one of those cars, all are the things that stop them piling into you that they’ll be shortcutting on.
Your link doesn’t work, however, the link to this story, posted previously in this thread by my good self, does indeed work. Feel free to peruse at your leisure, much love,glad to help,
T&E
Thanks for checking that. It all works now…including your quote.
Cheap tyres are not all bad ,some are better than well known makes ,for example we have tried on ifor Williams trailers India gt ,max miler ,other makes I can’t even remember and Avon which went out of shape and all blew off within 3 months ,since we’ve been using a make called trailer maxx we have never had a bad one ,and ones that get a puncture have been repaired and lasted until Worn out where others have gone out of shape not long after having a puncture repaired .
I mouthed off a bit because they were going on a BMW. Someone would put that car through its paces without knowing the provenance of the tyres. If it were a Nissan Micra that stays within the 30 mph signs it would probably be not too bad. BBC Scotland news covered dodgy part worns ,out of ten tyres two were completely legit. a couple were not marked as “part worn” others were illegal and dangerous. A tyre failure on an Ifor Williams trailer isn’t likely to be dramatic like on a Beemer.
■■■■■ tyres never last the distance. its a fact . mostly youre very lucky if you get 15k from brand new - whereas the well known makes its not unheard of getting 30k
