Technical Tyres - what is good and doesn't cost the earth?

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Technical Tyres - what is good and doesn't cost the earth?

DickBarton

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Hi,

Car has had it's first MOT and apart from 2 self-induced advisory notes (front tyres were over-inflated...serves me right for keeping at the pressure I got the car - 34psi is too high!); an offside front brake wearing more than the others I had a Nearside ball joint split - this has been fixed under warranty - all good so far.

I reckon I'm going to get another 2 months out my tyres - car does approx. 8000 miles a year so it's not a heavy mileage car.

Rear tyres are still the originals (with about 2mm tread left which seems pretty good for the car coming up to it's 30k mileage) but fronts are going to need done soon.

I've got a 2007 Bravo Sport 150 T-Jet with the optional 18s (225/45/18's - I think!) and I'm wondering what tyres I should go for. They are running P-Zero's just now but they seem to be about £130 a corner. No real issue with the tyres (although it does seem to suffer from tramlining a lot but that could be due to over-inflation!) apart from cost for new ones.

So what tyres are people using and recommending? Ideally I'd like to spend not much more than £100 a corner - will get the front's changed then a few months later the rear ones (unless I can find a deal that offers the 4 for around £250!!!).

I'm not normally tight but with new family member money is much tighter than usual, hence me asking so any recommendations would be appreciated as I'd probably just got for the P-Zero's again if I had the cash.

It doesn't get thrashed but it gets driven on all kinds of surfaces and roads - I'd like grip in dry and wet (although as long as it doesn't slide like the P6000 Ditchfinders then it's going to be good) - wife's car has some Khumo's on and they seem to be very good in wet and dry...but not sure how they would be on the Bravo.

Thanks.
 
Just put 4 brand new Kumho K31's on my Bravo and they've been brilliant. £60 odd a corner from Camskills for 17's but it's quite a hard size to find apparently. Stay away from the run flats obviously.
 
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Have got 18's the same as you and have just fitted "Prestivo" made by avon (alledgedly). They cost £89 per corner. Early days so far but seem good.
 
just for the sake of some help on unknown tyres...go check this page...

www.tyretest.com it is a nice page with users opinions about the rubber they are using.

I am using maloya davos in winter and pirelli p zero rosso in summer, and summer tyres will need replacement. I know how pirellis behave so I will try to buy another four, but I was looking also at sumo firenza st-08 which are yokohama copy and are praised by subaru drivers.



http://www.wrx.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42002&start=20
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1224438

the decision is up to you, but if it helps I usually look ant the tire how it behaves in wet, if user opinion is ok for tyre performance in wet while braking then it is ok.

Also I was checking while doing my research at low end budget tyres like strar performer UHP which I have seen are used by plenty of Mercedes users, avon zz3,falken fk452 BMW tuners ,federal ss595 some reno and also Audi A3 and A4 guys, federal 595 evo different from ss595 which are ment for drifting,fulda cerat exelero.Most of them cost way below 100EURos.



 
Have got 18's the same as you and have just fitted "Prestivo" made by avon (alledgedly). They cost £89 per corner. Early days so far but seem good.

:yeahthat:
I had 4 of them fitted just before dec. 2009, they coped the snow really well and no problem during the hot weather either. They seem to last as well, not a bad tyre if the money is tight.
 
Have got 18's the same as you and have just fitted "Prestivo" made by avon (alledgedly). They cost £89 per corner. Early days so far but seem good.

Never heard of these until around July 2009 when noticed them on a Croma at a dealers. I also heard they was made for Stapleton's Tyre Services by Yokohama & manufactured in their Philippines plant (Code: 4U??)

What code is shown or your tyres?
 
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