Landsail LS588 tyres...anyone have any feedback?

[HustleRussell]

Howard- said:

Just had a look at what's available in that size... Absolutely sod all half-decent. Are you sure it's the right OEM size?

OP I've had a quick look and at the prices you're willing to pay you're only ever going to get st tyres- so if you want good tyres in your budget, change the wheels for smaller ones.

[jimxms]

HustleRussell said:

Yeah Hankooks are probably going to be much worse than Landsails...

Seriously, the ratings are bks- look for independent tyre tests

I was actually going to retract my previous post but you beat me to it. After checking some reviews of the Hankooks they seem a pretty decent tyre. We may have a winner providing there aren't any other contenders.

[jimxms]

HustleRussell said:

OP I've had a quick look and at the prices you're willing to pay you're only ever going to get st tyres- so if you want good tyres in your budget, change the wheels for smaller ones.

I'm not on a budget - people seem to be assuming that I am because the tyre with the best rating happens to be one of the cheaper ones. I'll happily pay £500 a corner if someone can show me an efficient tyre with great wet performance and low noise output.

As for OEM size, they are genuine Merc wheels but not the ones that came with the car from factory. I looked at 295/40/22 and got even less results. I don't know what issues I'd have (if any) going up to 45

Edited by jimxms on Wednesday 27th July 08:36

[TooMany2cvs]

jimxms said:

HustleRussell said:

OP I've had a quick look and at the prices you're willing to pay you're only ever going to get st tyres- so if you want good tyres in your budget, change the wheels for smaller ones.

I'm not on a budget - people seem to be assuming that I am because the tyre with the best rating happens to be one of the cheaper ones. I'll happily pay £500 a corner if someone can show me an efficient tyre with great wet performance and low noise output.

Then it's a no-brainer. The Contis.

[Geekman]

jimxms said:

I was actually going to retract my previous post but you beat me to it. After checking some reviews of the Hankooks they seem a pretty decent tyre. We may have a winner providing there aren't any other contenders.

I had hankooks on my last set of wheels and they were excellent: vastly better than any of the budget offerings. In this Evo test, they beat Michelin, Bridgestone and Toyo.

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/16545/best-tyres-evo...

[Howard-]

jimxms said:

I'm not on a budget - people seem to be assuming that I am because the tyre with the best rating happens to be one of the cheaper ones. I'll happily pay £500 a corner if someone can show me an efficient tyre with great wet performance and low noise output.

As for OEM size, they are genuine Merc wheels but not the ones that came with the car from factory. I looked at 295/40/22 and got even less results. I don't know what issues I'd have (if any) going up to 45

Edited by jimxms on Wednesday 27th July 08:36

295/40/22 gets you Conti SportContact 5s. It doesn't get much better than those.

http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?ist_hybr...

[jimxms]

TooMany2cvs said:

Then it's a no-brainer. The Contis.

Is that a response based on experience with that particular model, test results or just the name though? I've seen plenty of lesser known tyres whip the ass off brand names - purely because they are trying to make a name for themselves and undercutting the big guys.

[HustleRussell]

jimxms said:

I'm not on a budget - people seem to be assuming that I am because the tyre with the best rating happens to be one of the cheaper ones. I'll happily pay £500 a corner if someone can show me an efficient tyre with great wet performance and low noise output.

As everybody has unanimously agreed, the ratings are complete bull. Read some tyre tests.

Here are two independent tyre tests

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/2013-Auto-Rev...

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/2010-Auto-Zei...

Both include the Hankooks. Continental top both tests. Looks like if money is no object you're in for around £225 per tyre plus fitting (Camskill)

[Monkeylegend]

jimxms said:

DegsyE39 said:

MethylatedSpirit said:

Hankook are available in your size

http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=110...

Hankook are OEM tyres on quite a few new cars. They certainly aren't cheap and nasty.

+1 hankook another good shout

I'd go for those in a shot, but their wet weather performance is rated E, which has got to be pretty poor especially if the posts above about the EU markings being self-assigned is true.

Evo rate them as brilliant in the wet on the new Audi S4 they tested this month, but lacking mid corner grip in the dry.

[ptp170]

I know this is an old thread but I feel the need to let the community know of my experience with this brand. This is a piccy of a 6 month old Landsail tyre off my BMW, it had never been run low on PSI or curbed etc. It was spotted today at the MOT on the inner side of the tyre..

The MOT guy said he's seeing this a lot on the brand.

[ptp170]

[Tell boy]

Nice one for the upload. I was told about this brand But now I totally will be giving these a miss. Thanks again

[Howard-]

Shock as cheap nasty ditchfinder tyres turn out to be, well, nasty ditchfinders!

[HustleRussell]

There should be an EU tyre label rating for how many months the tyre will last before cracking up and falling apart.

ETA: thanks for the feedback ptp170

Edited by HustleRussell on Friday 26th March 13:59

[PeteH66]

Just to add some balance, I've got LS588s fitted to my E500 - the PO had them fitted just before I bought the car about 3 years ago. I've driven about 7000 miles on them and so far I've not skidded sideways in a fireball of doom, had the tyres fall apart or in any way had my life flash before me because of snap oversteer/understeer/aquaplaning or any such drama. In fact, they've just quietly got on with the job of pointing the car where it should go, stopping it in a timely manner and making it move forward (sometimes harnessing quite a lot of the 306 horses available to my right foot ). I should add I'm not a driving god and drive sensibly within the conditions of the road. In short, they've been fine. Would I get them again? Very possibly.

[NGRhodes]

Just in case there is any doubt these are crap tyres:

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2021-UUHP-Summ...

Wet braking from 100kmh was 82m for these tyres, the best was 41m, even the worst mid range brand was 47m.

[anonymous-user]

NGRhodes said:

Just in case there is any doubt these are crap tyres:

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2021-UUHP-Summ...

Wet braking from 100kmh was 82m for these tyres, the best was 41m, even the worst mid range brand was 47m.

Even in the dry they are metres behind a proper tyre, but that 35m in the wet is the difference between a "phew" bit of hard braking with car lengths to spare and then carrying on with your day, and a potentially life alterting accident.

I'm sure every cheapskate who buys them drives to their tyres and the conditions though.

[bolide]

NGRhodes said:

Just in case there is any doubt these are crap tyres:

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2021-UUHP-Summ...

Wet braking from 100kmh was 82m for these tyres, the best was 41m, even the worst mid range brand was 47m.

The Landsail did win back points for being quiet, though, so you'll be able to hear your passengers screaming as you plough into a solid object in the rain

Nick Froome

[Ianhughes]

Hi
My wife has just bought an MX5 mk 3 and it has 4 brand new landsail tyres fitted (17inch)
I had a drive the other day, as you do, on a dampish road but in no way wet. Everything was fine until i entered a roundabout at a very moderate speed as it was quite busy, what i experienced at the rear was a very unpleasant experience which was repeated at every roundabout I encountered. I can only try and explain that it felt as if the tyre was made of blancmange. By the time i got home i resolved to replace all 4 immediately as they inspire zero confidence in my opinion. Im not a tyre snob and note that some people like them. Im just sharing my experience and i think that the fact im very happy to remove 4 brand new tyres and spend almost £500 to replace them asap is an indicator of how poor i found them as a tyre. They might make a nice plant holder perhaps 🤔

[d_a_n1979]

Ianhughes said:

Hi
My wife has just bought an MX5 mk 3 and it has 4 brand new landsail tyres fitted (17inch)
I had a drive the other day, as you do, on a dampish road but in no way wet. Everything was fine until i entered a roundabout at a very moderate speed as it was quite busy, what i experienced at the rear was a very unpleasant experience which was repeated at every roundabout I encountered. I can only try and explain that it felt as if the tyre was made of blancmange. By the time i got home i resolved to replace all 4 immediately as they inspire zero confidence in my opinion. Im not a tyre snob and note that some people like them. Im just sharing my experience and i think that the fact im very happy to remove 4 brand new tyres and spend almost £500 to replace them asap is an indicator of how poor i found them as a tyre. They might make a nice plant holder perhaps ??

No need to be a tyre snob to know to avoid anything like Landsail, Linglong (as in you won't live long), Accelera etc...

They're all low quality ste