Cheap on line tyres
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We're getting some new wheels & tyres. The wheels are now decided but when the final price for them with tyres came through it was £100 more than I could get buy getting the tyres thorough blackcircles. The guy from a very well know UK motorsport outlet told me he couldn't even get the tyres for cost at the price of black circles sell them as they & the other on line use grey imports they get theirs from other countries. They are still perfectly legal but they have different compounds to the tyres designed for the UK marked. I.E. ones for the hot roads in south of Spain are very hard & very cold countries have very soft compounds.
We'd put some Eagle F1s on the back of the 5 series that came from blackcircles & they lasted less than a year, it can't have done more than 6 or 7K miles on them, I thought it was odd as my other half usually drives it's not like she's sideways everywhere so it seems he may well be on to something there. He said there's nothing obvious to say on the tyre anywhere what country it's destined for they look just the same but they are different compounds.
Anyone got got any comments?
We'd put some Eagle F1s on the back of the 5 series that came from blackcircles & they lasted less than a year, it can't have done more than 6 or 7K miles on them, I thought it was odd as my other half usually drives it's not like she's sideways everywhere so it seems he may well be on to something there. He said there's nothing obvious to say on the tyre anywhere what country it's destined for they look just the same but they are different compounds.
Anyone got got any comments?
I bought wheels and tyres from Oponeo. I saved about £300 on the package (£200 for the wheels and £100 for the tyres)
I'm fairly pleased, they should have sent bolts so I got some locally and you do need to get someone to mount and balance them.
Tyre leader also wheel and tyre packages as well.
I'm fairly pleased, they should have sent bolts so I got some locally and you do need to get someone to mount and balance them.
Tyre leader also wheel and tyre packages as well.
Krikkit said:
Sounds a bit like an excuse to me - the model numbers and markings are identical to UK spec in my experience, there's no way they'd turn out different compounds without different markings if only for keeping track themselves!
He said there nothing as obvious as the DOT marks that you can read the date of manufacture from but there is something in there that the manufacture can use to identify them from, it's just not publicized. It hard to know, it does sound a bit of an excuse, they do seem to like to charge well for quite a bit of there stuff, but the wheels were quite well priced.
rallycross said:
Try tyre leader great prices and last time I used them had a 3 day turnaround.
I had head about tyre leader before so when I was getting a puncture fixed at a local back street place I asked him if he would fit tyres supplied by them as he did a good job with the low profile tyres. He he was happy to do that, though said he had no idea how they could source a tyre & have it delivered from a different country for less than he got them here, he said the on last set of theirs he fitted the fronts came from a different country to the rears. Another thing the guy from the motorsport place said was the main problem is that you think you are buying a matched set of tyres from the on line people but could easily end up with a set of mixed compound tyres.
If he is telling the truth, it's probably likely you'd never really notice as tyre performance is very subjective. Until like me you find you've had a set wear out very quickly, then you start to wonder!
ksLuckyone said:
I had head about tyre leader before so when I was getting a puncture fixed at a local back street place I asked him if he would fit tyres supplied by them as he did a good job with the low profile tyres. He he was happy to do that, though said he had no idea how they could source a tyre & have it delivered from a different country for less than he got them here, he said the on last set of theirs he fitted the fronts came from a different country to the rears.
The Euro is weak, it works in their favourI just found my mate used to be his boss at this motor sport company (& also an accomplished rally driver), he said that guy is a sales man first & foremost & will use what ever facts he has at his disposal to shift the stock from the wear house. They do have different compounds in different parts of the world but as long as your careful you won't get caught out. He also added he's seen my misses drive & quite believe she'd do in a set of rear tyre on the old 530i that quickly!
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