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Post by Rhubarb on Sept 7, 2023 19:10:45 GMT 1
Ouchie, no super duper discount through your work then? Nope - tyres are through one of the tyre distributors, prices are absolutely crazy! it would have cost me £335 a tyre to get them through work - they put on £5 a tyre. It was £1103 through National tyres (Halfords) with a 15% online discount and free fitting - now given we don't actually have a trained tyre fitter, the machines are old & worn and I had a set of new rims too, it seemed the best option to let the Halfords van come round and fit them for me - easy job for them, no car to jack up and no old tyres to tear off the rims & dispose of!
That's the dearest set of tyres I've ever heard of.. I'm going back twenty years, I fitted a set of tyres to a BMW that had Titanium wheels. Tyres cost him a grand..The wheels were a bonkers price, can't remember now. He'd bought them elsewhere. He did get charged well, very annoying spoilt rich kid with more money than sense.
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Post by Karl on Sept 7, 2023 20:30:49 GMT 1
Yes of course you are right with the loss of control of the rear being more hazardous
In actual reality
No one gives a chuff
So long as the tyres are round and have at least some tread
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Post by sorted on Sept 7, 2023 20:54:10 GMT 1
Bit late to the party here but when I used to work for the Insurance Co we had a few tyre experts involved in claims over the years so used to chat to them a bit.
What they said is best ones go on the rear, not so much in case you drive like a tw*t and lose the back end but because of the puncture risk. Apparently a rear puncture is more dangerous as the car will want to swap ends, a front puncture can be corrected easily with steering and brought to a safe stop.
Never tried it thankfully!
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Post by OldGit on Sept 7, 2023 22:38:41 GMT 1
Nope - tyres are through one of the tyre distributors, prices are absolutely crazy! it would have cost me £335 a tyre to get them through work - they put on £5 a tyre. It was £1103 through National tyres (Halfords) with a 15% online discount and free fitting - now given we don't actually have a trained tyre fitter, the machines are old & worn and I had a set of new rims too, it seemed the best option to let the Halfords van come round and fit them for me - easy job for them, no car to jack up and no old tyres to tear off the rims & dispose of!
That's the dearest set of tyres I've ever heard of.. I'm going back twenty years, I fitted a set of tyres to a BMW that had Titanium wheels. Tyres cost him a grand..The wheels were a bonkers price, can't remember now. He'd bought them elsewhere. He did get charged well, very annoying spoilt rich kid with more money than sense. You're a bit out of date then - Merc tyres for GLE/GLC are around £1200 per axle, Audi (anything with an 'S' in it) are around £850 per axle - even A200's are £380 per axle. I've never skimped on tyres or brakes, the tyres are Pirelli LR spec and the brakes are genuine LR, yes, they cost more and could probably be substituted for cheaper and nearly as effective parts, using genuine spec. parts (to me) means that the vehicle will handle as intended, leaving any error to be attributable to the design engineer or the driver... I'm not throwing a Eurobox around in commuting traffic, it's ~2.5 tonnes of Land Rover - it needs all the help it can get!
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Post by valhalla on Sept 7, 2023 23:20:13 GMT 1
I'm not throwing a Eurobox around in commuting traffic, it's ~2.5 tonnes of Land Rover - it needs all the help it can get!
Even the older ones can be badly affected by tyre choice. Mrs. V's RangeRover had a brand-new set of 4 BFGoodridge All-Terrains on it when I first put it back on the road after restoration. It handled like a tea-trolley; seriously, I couldn't believe how poor it was. Nothing I did would properly sort it out. I tried every trick I knew back then - steering alignments, trailing-arm bushings, panhard-rod bushings, front axle castor-checks, the lot.
In the end, I sold the 4x tyres to a workmate as part-worn, and fitted Michelins all round. It wasn't perfect, but it transformed the handling sufficiently that you didn't feel the vehicle was going to let-go every time it rained, or the camber switched on a bad road.
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Post by Rhubarb on Sept 8, 2023 7:49:57 GMT 1
That's the dearest set of tyres I've ever heard of.. I'm going back twenty years, I fitted a set of tyres to a BMW that had Titanium wheels. Tyres cost him a grand..The wheels were a bonkers price, can't remember now. He'd bought them elsewhere. He did get charged well, very annoying spoilt rich kid with more money than sense. You're a bit out of date then - Merc tyres for GLE/GLC are around £1200 per axle, Audi (anything with an 'S' in it) are around £850 per axle - even A200's are £380 per axle. I've never skimped on tyres or brakes, the tyres are Pirelli LR spec and the brakes are genuine LR, yes, they cost more and could probably be substituted for cheaper and nearly as effective parts, using genuine spec. parts (to me) means that the vehicle will handle as intended, leaving any error to be attributable to the design engineer or the driver... I'm not throwing a Eurobox around in commuting traffic, it's ~2.5 tonnes of Land Rover - it needs all the help it can get!
Yep, I'm out of touch regarding tyre prices. I'll stick with my 50 quid a corner Fiesta and Mitsubishi methinks
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Post by Roverman on Sept 8, 2023 9:13:30 GMT 1
Just put 2 new tyres on the rear of my P38 range rover for £170 including new valves & balancing, but it only does 25 to 30 mile a week
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