Opinions, guidance whatever on buying fresh tyres for the banger? Right now i'm running 155/70s upfront on the smart mk4 steels, and 145/80s at the back on rat mk3s. Would like to be silver all round again soon as possible.. but one of the mk4s has a nice big nail in the sidewall. May as well get that re-shoed, and do the other at the same time, putting those on the front, and swap the one half-decent old tyre onto the spare (tyre knackered because of oil contamination)
I've phoned a few places and the quotes aren't too different... where's doing a good deal out of the small local sample at the moment is Kwik Fit.. here's some examples
2 Arrowspeed 155/70 R13 for £40..... there's extra stuff I want done though - £5 per wheel balancing (x5), £3 per valve (x2), and of course, a quid for disposal (x2), plus some extra amount for swapping the old tyre (£4 maybe?) ... all in price £77
Budget tyres though - got some on at the moment upfront and they seem to give up grip a bit easy, particularly in the wet.
The next most affordable tyres are all around £40 per corner, and i dont know whether it might be a good idea to do all four at once, or just have the cheap ones at the back and good ones up front?
Plus the quality may just be as bad, but with a brand name -- bit crap at this game without much knowledge.
The three flavours offered were
Continental at £38
Pirelli at £39.50
Michelin at £40
for the sake of two quid a tyre i'm not going to choose on price - what d'yall think would be the best out of those? No "model" names given, just the overall brands. Hopefully up to the level of the Dunlop SP10s that are on the mk3s - despite being 145s they seem grippier than the Arrowspeeds.
2 continentals - £76 raw, all-in price £113.. denting bank balance, but not too bad
4 michelin - £160 for the tyres, £205 total... or "ouch"
i can afford it right now, but wondering if it's worth it, or whether i should be saving much of my cash and using it on something else.
could save a couple quid by disposing of the bad tyres myself (and keeping the two half-decent ones as spare, if i get all 4 done), not having the spare balanced, etc, but that wouldn't make a massive dent in the total..
What do the great tyre gurus say?
Bit of a departure from a more usual "whats the stickiest 165/60 i can get for less than £100 each" question i know
Reccomendation on a better place to go would be great too
