Anyone know a place that sells reasonably priced metric tyres?
A mate from work has recently bought a Citroen CX with the metric sized alloys. Current quotes are around the £180 per tyre mark!!! A quick google suggests he needs 190/65 HR 390 TRX
Any help appreciated (apart from selling the car of course!!)
It's a Citroen, wheels will cost a fortune as well as the tyres.
The BMW TRX's are about £300 a pop nowadays.
For a time an advertiser in one of the Jag comics was doing Dunlop 390s for a very reasonable price (£69), but IIRC they were 255/60 so a bit big for the Citroen.
Nowt wrong with Colways The last owner slapped a pair on the front of the Celsior for the last MOT. Feel nice, grip well, appear to wear reasonably, and cheap.
I once effectively wrote off a car by hitting a remould carcass which some incosiderate fellow had left rather inconveniently in the middle of the road.
Then don't trust new tyres either. Colways are made and tested to E108 and E109 regulations, just like new tyres.
Most trucks run on remoulds, and while appararently, you still get some shedding their laminate, you don't get the catastrophic failure you used to get.
Biggest shit is when really cheap, really nasty far eastern tyres are sold stupidly cheap as "remould quality". They aren't even fit for a low speed trailor use.
As it happens, Colway sell loads of V rated tyres, and their motorsport tyres are all made in the same way. There is one tyre that is the control tyre for the Porsche 924 race series, and others that are the prefered tyre classic and historic rallying.
Plus there is a big thing at the moment about the environmental aspects of remoulds. A remould saves 7-8 gallons of oil. E marked remoulds can only use "first use" cases (not previously remoulded) and only those that pass visual inspection before and after re-laminating. Failed cases are used for playground soft flooring, carpet underlay and even in the cement industry.
Mmm hmm, next you'll be telling me that they are made to ISO9001 standards.
I've never had a proper tyre delaminate on me, the only car I have had with remoulds (the previous owner had fitted it with remoulds) had all four tyres delaminate within 20,000 miles.
Do you not notice all the pieces of tyre by the side of the motorway?
BTW, those companies are doing well because drivers are cheapskates, not because the tyres are fit for purpose.
You are aware that one can get ISO9001 for producing crap, dangerous products? Just as long as one states that one will produce crap, dangerous products and one has a QA system in place to assure that the products really are both crap and dangerous it's possible to get accredited.
I know a few people that have used both Colway Intermediates and Colway Rally Sport tyres for motorsport events and have been very pleased with how they perform.
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