S Type 2.7D Tyres
Discussion
Hi
Need 4 x new tyres, currently running Conti 5 Pilot Sport, but just been looking round, I can get 4 x 'Goodyear
245/45R17 99Y Efficientgrip Performance' tyres £22 cheaper per tyre, and they have a B for petrol, A for rain, and 70db, all better ratings than the more expensive equivalent Michelin, Conti, Dunlop and Pirelli tyres.
I do best part of 30k per year, a lot of it on motorways.
Anyone any comments / experience of the Goodyear tyres?
Need 4 x new tyres, currently running Conti 5 Pilot Sport, but just been looking round, I can get 4 x 'Goodyear
245/45R17 99Y Efficientgrip Performance' tyres £22 cheaper per tyre, and they have a B for petrol, A for rain, and 70db, all better ratings than the more expensive equivalent Michelin, Conti, Dunlop and Pirelli tyres.
I do best part of 30k per year, a lot of it on motorways.
Anyone any comments / experience of the Goodyear tyres?
Thanks for Tyre Giant info, just checked it out, and its about £2 / tyre cheaper than Tyresavings.com.
This is my second S Type, from memory the last one was on 235's, but this one was fitted with 245's when I bought it, correct load ratings etc so I assume to be correct tyre? When I put my reg number into various web sites, it always comes up with 18" wheels which it certainly soesn't have.
Anyone got any experience of the Goodyear efficient grip performance tyre?
Just checked Tyresavings.com, not much of a tyre selection at 235/50R17 96W, obviously not a popular tyre size, so perhaps that why mine was put on 245/45's for this reason?
I guess that a 45 profile on a 245 is a similar diameter to a 50 profile on a 235?
Plus having the correct speed / load rating makes it a suitable alternative? (actually better, I have 99Y rather than 96W)
Yes the 235s are limited in choice, I have a pair of sunitrac f5000 on the back (free just after I got the car) they seem ok for slepping up and down motorways. I reckon there is 25k miles of use in them and they are stupidly cheap.
I am not an aggressive race everywhere type and couldn't actually tell the difference between them and better quality tyres (and they were much better in the wet than the 3mm tread pzeros they replaced)
Having said that I hear good things about sport contact 3's but at £160± a tyre I would hope so.
I am not an aggressive race everywhere type and couldn't actually tell the difference between them and better quality tyres (and they were much better in the wet than the 3mm tread pzeros they replaced)
Having said that I hear good things about sport contact 3's but at £160± a tyre I would hope so.
Quite seriously I'd rather stick my cock into a bag of very angry Puff Adders than buy tyres online again. Sure, get a quote from internets persons and then get your local tyre monkeys to match it, that way you can insist on seeing the actual tyres in the flesh and check the manufacturing dates before you part with any beer tokens .
Why you may very reasonably ask? Consider what you'll do if over five hundred quids worth of premium but old stock, date mismatched tyres are dumped on your doorstep that you've already paid for, your tyre fitter dispite being a bloke with decades of experience of running his own race/track car set up buisness spends all afternoon repeatedly swapping and measuring wheel and tyre conbinations trying to Roadforce match wheels to tyres and still can't get all four in spec because they appear to have been stored incorrectly and are hoplessly out of shape.
What do you do then? Contact the supplier who'll feed you a load of old b
ks about what the law says about tyre storage shelf life and what they are entitled to sell, then they'll by blame the fitter and after talking to him just stonewall and when you start getting insistent repeatedly refer you to the importer, who eventually agrees to accept the tyres back at your removal and carrage cost but only if you first sign a agreement that you accept the tyres being tested, very possibily to distruction with no gaurantee of replacement if they get FUBAR'd during testing and then the importer and manufacturer decide between them that well actually, there was nothing wrong with them and you'll just have to take our word on that.
In the meantime how do you drive your car without tyres? Just buy another set according to the supplier whilst yours are off being tested - oh really? So, what do you do with the tested set if they come back? Stick them on ebay maybe? Would you actually want them back after testing - I wouldn't. Fish the old borderline legal ones out the skip maybe and put them back on? - yep and who pays for that to be done, and who's going to explain to Plod or the MOT tester why I'm driving on marginal tyres?
No, online tyres are OK when all goes well and maybe you'll save a few quid. But if it goes tits up you're absolutely screwed. Never again for me.
Why you may very reasonably ask? Consider what you'll do if over five hundred quids worth of premium but old stock, date mismatched tyres are dumped on your doorstep that you've already paid for, your tyre fitter dispite being a bloke with decades of experience of running his own race/track car set up buisness spends all afternoon repeatedly swapping and measuring wheel and tyre conbinations trying to Roadforce match wheels to tyres and still can't get all four in spec because they appear to have been stored incorrectly and are hoplessly out of shape.
What do you do then? Contact the supplier who'll feed you a load of old b
ks about what the law says about tyre storage shelf life and what they are entitled to sell, then they'll by blame the fitter and after talking to him just stonewall and when you start getting insistent repeatedly refer you to the importer, who eventually agrees to accept the tyres back at your removal and carrage cost but only if you first sign a agreement that you accept the tyres being tested, very possibily to distruction with no gaurantee of replacement if they get FUBAR'd during testing and then the importer and manufacturer decide between them that well actually, there was nothing wrong with them and you'll just have to take our word on that.In the meantime how do you drive your car without tyres? Just buy another set according to the supplier whilst yours are off being tested - oh really? So, what do you do with the tested set if they come back? Stick them on ebay maybe? Would you actually want them back after testing - I wouldn't. Fish the old borderline legal ones out the skip maybe and put them back on? - yep and who pays for that to be done, and who's going to explain to Plod or the MOT tester why I'm driving on marginal tyres?
No, online tyres are OK when all goes well and maybe you'll save a few quid. But if it goes tits up you're absolutely screwed. Never again for me.
Steve
It sounds like you have had a bad experience?
For the last four sets of tyres, I have always used tyresavings.com, you pay nothing on line, good prices, fitted by Halfords 3 miles from home, Sainsburys cafe across the road whilst I wait, so it suits me.
I have just checked the four tyres I have worn out, manufactured in week 13 2014, so not yet 12 months old, so hot off the manufacturing line when fitted I guess.
It sounds like you have had a bad experience?
For the last four sets of tyres, I have always used tyresavings.com, you pay nothing on line, good prices, fitted by Halfords 3 miles from home, Sainsburys cafe across the road whilst I wait, so it suits me.
I have just checked the four tyres I have worn out, manufactured in week 13 2014, so not yet 12 months old, so hot off the manufacturing line when fitted I guess.
John D9395 said:
Steve
It sounds like you have had a bad experience?
For the last four sets of tyres, I have always used tyresavings.com, you pay nothing on line, good prices, fitted by Halfords 3 miles from home, Sainsburys cafe across the road whilst I wait, so it suits me.
I have just checked the four tyres I have worn out, manufactured in week 13 2014, so not yet 12 months old, so hot off the manufacturing line when fitted I guess.
I have and buying tyres online is a risk Im not prepared to take again. Saving a few quid is just not worth the potential grief as it's become obvious there's very little you can do if you're not happy with what you get once you've handed over the beer tokens. It sounds like you have had a bad experience?
For the last four sets of tyres, I have always used tyresavings.com, you pay nothing on line, good prices, fitted by Halfords 3 miles from home, Sainsburys cafe across the road whilst I wait, so it suits me.
I have just checked the four tyres I have worn out, manufactured in week 13 2014, so not yet 12 months old, so hot off the manufacturing line when fitted I guess.
John D9395 said:
Just put my spare on for a few days before new tyres are fitted (one front tyre had questionable legal status!), and date code was 1306, so I guess one of the original tyres (car is an 07), if so, it does confirm that the car was fitted with 245/45 from the factory.
Mine has 245/45 also - I had no reason to doubt that they were OE. Currently on Firestone SZ90s which I love and seem to suit it well - better than Contis and at least as good as Falken 452s.Goodyear Tyres ordered on line with tyresavings.com, fitted by Formula one auto centre.
Took wife to pub across the road for lunch whilst tyres were fitted, very pleasant staff, guy even called to say car was ready for collection.
Tyre date codes late 2014, which to me is fine, rears will only last me 6 months, fronts 12 months.
Had a blast down a dual carriage way on way home, very smooth, well balanced, very happy with both price and service.
Took wife to pub across the road for lunch whilst tyres were fitted, very pleasant staff, guy even called to say car was ready for collection.
Tyre date codes late 2014, which to me is fine, rears will only last me 6 months, fronts 12 months.
Had a blast down a dual carriage way on way home, very smooth, well balanced, very happy with both price and service.
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