Tyres - Any recommendations?

Some years ag I had Eco Contacts on my Herald. They wore out faster than any other type of tyre I have ever tried.

The DS runs on Kumhos (because I just can't afford hand made classic Michelins at =80380 each...) and they seem to last fine.

Ian

I would specifically find out from the tyre manufacturers what are their harder wearing tyres. It might be your current one has better grip and softer compound. And I don't think personally 26k is that bad at all!

If you can post the size of tyre I can give you an idea of cost/value

The DS runs on Kumhos

What's a DS ?

"Fred"

Oh you poor fellow, how empty your life must be.

At the risk of provoking howls of derision from the tyreisti, I ran my diesel Xantia on Ceats from (shock horror, cue fainting) Kwik Fit. They seemed to have reasonable grip and, as I do 20k a year, seemed to last well. They were still on the car and well legal when I sold it over a year after fitting them.

Ok my driving style isn't fling it round the corners and most of the mileage is motorways but I was quite happy with them.

Fred (Don' snipped-for-privacy@hidden.co.us) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Very nose-heavy.

malc ( snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

When I bought the Xant that my old man's now using, it as on RoadHog KwikShit cheapies. They were *horrible*. I put a set of Avons on, and it transformed the car.

And that was a petrol, which is much less nose-heavy than the diesel.

Well I guessed at a Citroen but then again he might have been driving a Nintendo.

Without getting into a slanging match you often refer to the cheap Chinese Teflon tyres, well most if not all of the Goodyear Eagle F1's are now made in China. And a lot of Goodyear's are now cheaper to buy than Kumho.

Fred (Don' snipped-for-privacy@hidden.co.us) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You want to produce a MessageID for that, Fred?

I can't be arsed to look, maybe I am mixing you up with Steve H?

Fred

Well I have actually driven one of those many times, I called it the D Special and it was many moons ago. I do remember that the headlights moved with the steering though.

I don't run a tyre business I let my wife do that, but I do own it! Just today we had a customer who had driven (Where possible) from Australia just to buy tyres from us because we are that good!

Fred > fitting business.....

I detect the smell of bullshit here.

Fred (Don' snipped-for-privacy@hidden.co.us) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I did. Plenty of refs to ElCheapo Teflon, not one for Chinese - because I don't know or care _where_ they're from...

Wipe your top lip then! I had an Australian bloke call in today who needed 4 tyres as his were worn out, he had called into ATS and whilst they were serving him another customer who we had helped (But we did not have the tyres instock) told him to try us. He rang us and we beat the price he had been quoted so he came to us, he had a big map on the back of his camper showing his route over the last 8 months. I wish his journey had been on Kumho tyres but the were BFG's , still I am part of the 4-site group so it was not a total loss.

So, in fact, he hadn't driven from Australia just for your tyres, then.

It was pure coincidence that someone told him to try you.