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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: nergal on 22 February 2008, 16:23:46

Title: Tyres
Post by: nergal on 22 February 2008, 16:23:46
Have you heard of or have you experience of Marangoni Tyres, or can you recommend 225/55R16s tyres less than £80.
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: alank46 on 22 February 2008, 16:31:27
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, or can you recommend 225/55R16s tyres less than £80.

Hi
Try:-  http://ssl.delti.com/mytires/start.html, but do not use Hancook as they cause severe tramlining.
Alan
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: ians on 22 February 2008, 16:47:55
Personally I have used Falken and Kumho's which have been fine.

Whereabouts are you - someone may have a local favourite supplier.
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: jules on 22 February 2008, 18:03:32
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Have you heard of or have you experience of Marangoni Tyres, or can you recommend 225/55R16s tyres less than £80.

My local tyre wholesaler sells me Goodyear F1's for the Hundy @ £65 each which I then take to Kwik Fit to be fitted @ £8 /rim.
These are 225 45 17's so 16's should be cheaper.
I will certainly be putting F1's on the Omega when it needs them.

Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: bob.dent on 22 February 2008, 18:08:41
If you've got a friendly local garage that will fit them for you, try tyretraders.com

I paid £140.93 for 2 Falken FK452 235x40 R17 tyres which is pretty good. ;)
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Post by: jemis on 22 February 2008, 18:48:28
Definately try the my tyres website very cheap inclusive prices and tyre centre should fit them for a tenner each or less.

I have just had some delivered, Kuhmo can't remember the the model number and they were about £56 each.
I haven't had them fitted yet but they look very good quality and the rubber feels grippy unlike some budget tyres. They are also have a good rating on tytetest.com.

I use race compound kuhmo's on my cosworth and they are awesome in wet and dry.

hope this is of help
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: jemis on 22 February 2008, 18:49:26
Forgot to mention they were 235/45/17's
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 22 February 2008, 18:50:15
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, or can you recommend 225/55R16s tyres less than £80.

Hi
Try:-  http://ssl.delti.com/mytires/start.html, but do not use Hancook as they cause severe tramlining.
Alan

Hancooks are really bad tires..I'm trying to get rid of them..
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: jemis on 22 February 2008, 18:56:20
Which hancooks are they I used to have some called k104 sports I think and I was impressed with them didn't have any driving problems at all apart from they were a bit noisy on the tarmac.
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 22 February 2008, 19:00:39
K102..for bad roads the softness is ok..but for fast curves you are all over the road..And for wet conditions they are really bad..
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: Marie on 22 February 2008, 20:19:55

try http://www.etyres.co.uk

i get my tyres from here excellent service and products.
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: ffcgary1 on 22 February 2008, 20:42:55
 Nergal i have a nangkang 225/55/16 with about 6mm of tread and no side wall damage you can have for £20 plus post if your interested. some on here run these and have some good things to say about them. Just pm if interested...... :y
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: nergal on 22 February 2008, 20:56:57
thanks for the offer but I need new tyres, really scary tracking problems, see my other post today.
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Post by: cem_devecioglu on 22 February 2008, 21:32:57
although there are many brands with various prices ,

the rule "you get what you pay for" rule strictly applies to tires..

The best approach can be sticking to tire test results I think..

And generally the test winners are expensive..

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x80/mecdv6/lastiktestsonuclari.jpg)
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: HerefordElite on 23 February 2008, 00:27:11
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Have you heard of or have you experience of Marangoni Tyres, or can you recommend 225/55R16s tyres less than £80.

last time i changed mine i went for 225/50/16s because there is more choice (55 is rare profile really) and therefore better prices.
I got 4 Toyo Proxes T1S for £260 from Ebay and then £20 for local garage to fit :y

222/50/16 will make speedo read high (safer this way) but only 3mph @ 70mph so you won't notice :y
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: stuvaux on 25 February 2008, 02:00:00
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Have you heard of or have you experience of Marangoni Tyres, or can you recommend 225/55R16s tyres less than £80.

I would definitely not recommend Marangoni - I had 2 on my car about a yr ago and the sidewalls cracked on both.....after a few months!

I used Mytyres since and bought some 235/40/18 Sportstrada ATR Sport for £42 each.....been fine so far (about 10 months)   :y

Stu

Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: Richie London on 25 February 2008, 09:41:54
i seem to have a maxxis and a khono on the front and an admiral and a pirelli ont the rear,
richie
Title: Re: Tyres
Post by: Richard A on 25 February 2008, 18:25:49
Nankang NS-2 225/55/16v Mytyres.com £48.90 delivered to your door. Tyre Test .com Score: 1-Excellent 6- Terrible = NS-2 score 2.3  :y
regards
richard