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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Cumbria on 21 October 2008, 17:30:51
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Just been to quick fit to price up 4 new tyres £600 could buy my self a new car for that price.
Whent round the corner to a tyre fitting place £50.00 each for roadstone. Never heard of them has any one else if so how good are they. Thanks
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Just been to quick fit to price up 4 new tyres £600 could buy my self a new car for that price.
Whent round the corner to a tyre fitting place £50.00 each for roadstone. Never heard of them has any one else if so how good are they. Thanks
what size tyres do you need?
225x16x60 or what?
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225x55x16
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225x55x16
have you tried camskill or blackcircles?
(you can find them on google) usually cheaper and dont have crap tyres, just decent but cheap or very good and expensive but have stuff between too if that makes sense (thought it was worth a go)
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Chears mate will have a look. Only whant a cheap set mostly local driving not a lot of motorway miles.
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Just been to quick fit to price up 4 new tyres £600 could buy my self a new car for that price.
Whent round the corner to a tyre fitting place £50.00 each for roadstone. Never heard of them has any one else if so how good are they. Thanks
Budget tyre. Made in Korea by Nexen :-X
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try on www.mytyres.co.uk or ebay some times can buy on good prices
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nexen arnt that bad just cheap :P ...depending on how expensive/cheap and also depending on the rubber and tread pattern, some tires are better or worse in the wet but hardly any noticeable difference in the dry.depends what sort of driving, if it's just a tyre just to do miles of trogging about, aslong as your not going to go mad and expect the tyres to be upto the same quality as goodyear for example then they'll be fine
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nexen arnt that bad just cheap :P ...depending on how expensive/cheap and also depending on the rubber and tread pattern, some tires are better or worse in the wet but hardly any noticeable difference in the dry.depends what sort of driving, if it's just a tyre just to do miles of trogging about, aslong as your not going to go mad and expect the tyres to be upto the same quality as goodyear for example then they'll be fine
Hard tread. Useless in the wet :-X :-X
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The tires are critic components and shops know this very well >:(
So only you got what you pay.. Very rarely I see bargain tires..
my idea is its worth stressing the budget for tires instead of buying
twice (like me ;D)..
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Just had a look on blackcircles £53.64 for blackcircles.com value choice
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'mytyres.co.uk' are currently selling 225/55/16 - Kenda KR19 tyres (never heard of them) for £46.10. Most importantly the 'test results' which covers 10 items ie "grip in the wet"is very, very good. The total score is far better than - Michelin Pilot Primacy £153.00, Bridgestone ER300 £110.00, Dunlop SP Sport 9000 £96.00 plus others. Have a look on the mytyres site.
regards
richard a
P.S. Mytyre service is brilliant.
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Just check those tests
http://eu.goodyear.com/home_en/goodyear/newsoverview/newsarticle/news_2007/eaglef1as_testwinner.jsp
Kenda dont seem to have good performance... :-/
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lol depends what you want really... iv mentioned in my previous posts that the difference was the grip in the wet so was something to bare in mind sort of thing.
if you plan on hammering your tyres and arnt bothered about spending major money then cheapo tyres are ok for abusing lol
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If i was doing a lot of motorway miles i would spend the extra money. But most driving around town so not getting thrashed
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in birmingham dudly road tyer world
put 2hand tyer any size all around for £80 very good condition
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That sounds like my sort of price. Weary of 2nd hand though dont know what sort of use theyve had could be off accident vehicle.
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Just my opinion .. but 2 tonne of car with around 200 BHP relies on 4 small patches of rubber to keep you alive ... it is NOT worth risking my life for a few quid .. so I NEVER put cheap rubber on a car.
The idea of retreads or 2nd hand is abhorent to me, even on SWTSMBO little clit shopping cart .. she also relies on those 4 little patches of rubber .. as do all the pedestrians and other road users.
:-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
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CEM, hello there, you are looking at the GOODYEAR site, not known for showing how good the competitors are!!!!!!
The test results on Mytyres are independant test by 'Reifen Test.com'.
regards
richard a
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Just my opinion .. but 2 tonne of car with around 200 BHP relies on 4 small patches of rubber to keep you alive ... it is NOT worth risking my life for a few quid .. so I NEVER put cheap rubber on a car.
The idea of retreads or 2nd hand is abhorent to me, even on SWTSMBO little clit shopping cart .. she also relies on those 4 little patches of rubber .. as do all the pedestrians and other road users.
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mine was 205 65 15 continental tyer look s like one week old
£80 ... i know what u mean but paying big price for anything dosent
mean ugot the best deal
no matter what u buy or trust if something sharp kiss ur tyer
badly than there is a big hole on ur perfect tyer
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Just my opinion .. but 2 tonne of car with around 200 BHP relies on 4 small patches of rubber to keep you alive ... it is NOT worth risking my life for a few quid .. so I NEVER put cheap rubber on a car.
The idea of retreads or 2nd hand is abhorent to me, even on SWTSMBO little clit shopping cart .. she also relies on those 4 little patches of rubber .. as do all the pedestrians and other road users.
:-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
i second that :y :y
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As Entwood said "Not only you, also consider pedestrians"..
For the Good Year site..
Assume a scenario that "Good Year , Bridgestone, Mitchelin, Continental" make the same stupidy and sell their crap tires for a high price ;D
thats not logical..These firms every year make millions of investment on research..
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I know what you meen but dont fancy paying £600.00 for driving around town. High motorway speeds would be different though
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people say pedestrians
i can say NO ONE IN UK do 30 mph in 30 zone
so what u say dosen't work if u pay big money in kwikfit
b'use u dont know how get it cheap and
say b'use of pedestrians. slow down they be safer
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The idea of retreads or 2nd hand is abhorent to me, even on SWTSMBO little clit shopping cart .. she also relies on those 4 little patches of rubber .. as do all the pedestrians and other road users.
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Don't go on an airplane then - Aircraft tires routinely receive 12 or more retreads before they are discarded.
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The idea of retreads or 2nd hand is abhorent to me, even on SWTSMBO little clit shopping cart .. she also relies on those 4 little patches of rubber .. as do all the pedestrians and other road users.
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Don't go on an airplane then - Aircraft tires routinely receive 12 or more retreads before they are discarded.
I have just spent 38 years flying aircraft .. and I can tell you for a certainty that the construction methods and use of aircraft tyres are so different to car tyres that the comparison is futile.
I will give you a simple example .. an aircraft tyre is DESIGNED to accelerate from stationary to a rotational speed equivalent to 180 mph in less than .5 of a second ... I doubt a car tyre could handle that ... but aircraft tyres would fail dramatically if required to corner at anything like the speed a car corners. They are as different as an F1 tyre is to a road tyre.
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I certainly wouldn't pay to have 2nd hand tyres put on. I am wary of tyres that are on if I buy a 2nd hand car, thought wouldn't change them if no signs of damage.
The MV6 in particular runs on premium rubber - I make too much demand of them.
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Okay - valid points about the differences, a poor comparison - however car retreads are speed rated the same as new car tyres - so they must be meet the same or equivalent standards as the new tyres.
I wouldn't trust 2nd hand - but I would trust re-treads.
Re-treads of today are not like the old re-moulds of the seventies and eighties which were only speed rated to 60mph
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*cough cough* if you happen to have mv6 wheels then avon zz3's are 70 quid a piece :P so that'd be what.... 280 for 4 which is less than half the price of the state "600" pounds for 4 and i wouldnt have said avons were a cheap/poor brand but still cost alot less than goodyears or pirellis at around 90 pound a pop
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*cough cough* if you happen to have mv6 wheels then avon zz3's are 70 quid a piece :P so that'd be what.... 280 for 4 which is less than half the price of the state "600" pounds for 4 and i wouldnt have said avons were a cheap/poor brand but still cost alot less than goodyears or pirellis at around 90 pound a pop
Wouldn't put those heaps of crap on a skateboard. I did, however, put them on the tractor. fortunately i wrecked them in about 4k
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Kwik Fit's pricing is just pure extortion, especially when you consider the quality of their service. They rip off the clueless who don't plan for tyre purchases, don't compare prices in advance and just turn up there when they're down to canvas because it's a brand they know IMHO.
I've just paid 90 quid a corner for A pair of Dunlop SP Sport Max in 235/45/17. They grip nicely in wet and dry. Can't complain at all, really.
Think of how much you'll spend on fuel during the life of those tyres and it pales into insignificance.
Kevin
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Just paid 4 x £96 for Goodyear F1 asymetric from Camskill + £40 to have them fitted locally.
Steve