Tyre reviews.

[Nigel Worc's]

Hello chaps, I wonder if this has been done to death ?

Again, on another thread, we have some posters trying to talk down to others on their tyre choice(s).

A site was linked to for us to compare tyres : http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/

I am a big fan of budget tyres, and I haven't had any bad experiences using, Runway, Mohawk, and just now, Triangle.

I drive a reasonably powered car, a RWD with a 2.8 straight six.

The site says, regarding my current tyres :

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The Triangle TR918 is a Touring Summer tyre designed to be fitted to Passenger Cars. Below is data from 7 tyre reviews averaging 48% over 119,000 miles driven.

Dry Grip
60%

Wet Grip
26%

Road Feedback
51%

Progressiveness
41%

Wear
76%

Comfort
56%

Buy again
24%


Alternative Tyres
Jinyu YH12 - 100%Altenzo Equator - 97%Zeetex HP103 - 97%
Triangle TR918 Reviews
Given 47% (breakdown) while driving a Vauxhall Vectra cdti (150) (215-55-16-V)
Driving on a combination of roads for 21,000 average miles

Bought these as I was on a tight budget at the time, and MOT was nearing. If youre planning on driving around the city or at low speeds then this is the tyre for you. Anything else then forget about any kind of grip on the road.
20000 miles ago I put them on the front of my diesel vctra, and have just put them on to the back. There is still about 3-4mm of tread left in them.
Hard compound which wears very well, however if it gets wet the grip is diabolical, almost dangerous. Avoid if you can afford totyre reviewed on February 5, 2013
Given 29% (breakdown) while driving a SEAT Toledo (205-55-16-V)
Driving on a combination of roads for 10,000 average miles

These were fitted to the rear of my 05 Toledo when I bought it. In the dry they are fine, in cold / damp conditions they are a nightmare. I have had two massive tail slides, the last one being at 25mph on a roundabout, which I only just managed to hold on to. The tyres have very little wear, but I will be changing them at the earliest opportunity.tyre reviewed on January 28, 2013
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Given 43% (breakdown) while driving a Saab Automobile 93 Sportwagen 150 TiD (215-55-16-)
Driving on a combination of roads for 3,000 spirited miles

Basically rubbish, I paid £104 fitted pair so should have realised. Had uniroyal rain expert before. My review is probably bias as it has rained virtually non stop since fitting them a 3 thousand miles ago. I was that dissapointed i was going to change them but havnt yet had the time.
I should have paid the extra £40 for a quality brand..........tyre reviewed on June 23, 2012
Given 39% (breakdown) while driving a Honda CIVIC 1.6 VTEC (225-45-17-)
Driving on mostly town for 12,000 average miles

Decent grip when dry, and seems to wear very well. After 20,000km it still looks 80% new.

Complete crap if wet/damp. Causes massive understeer when going around corners and struggles to find any grip what so ever during take off.

Would recommend to stay away from these tyres. tyre reviewed on June 18, 2012
Given 36% (breakdown) while driving a BMW 528i Touring Sport (225-55-16-)
Driving on a combination of roads for 20,000 average miles

Utter rubbish.
Needed 4 tyres a year ago and all I could get at the time was these, being BMW and an odd size I couldn't justify binning tyres with good tread on for new ones.

Dry the traction control comes on
Wet the traction control comes on

In the dry there is no progressiveness about them they are always on the limit, they are just dire constantly awful, the sidewalls are flimsy and make the already barge like handling even worse.

The wet is a different matter all together, pull out of a junction to quick traction control is on, go around a roundabout to quick and the back end wants to kick out whilst the front is understeering towards a kerb, clearing water is crap, honestly they may as well call them Triangle Jesus or Triangle Aquaplaner 5000, because that is all they do, they walk on water and throw the car everywhere, when you're driving at 50mph, the rain is coming down so hard you can barely see 10 feet in front of you and all your car wants to do is become the messiah and plane its way home on a thin layer of water they are down right dangerous.

Honestly these tyres should be banned, and I mean banned they are so bad I think plastic wheels would be better.

That said, there is only one good point of these tyres, the rears on the BMW considering the amount of times I have had the back end out unintentionally have lasted 20k miles, but the down side of that is the tyres hit a point of wear and that is it, sideways city, if you have to stop and turn left or right going up a hill, all there is a bend on a crest expect it to start going wrong quickly.

I can't wait to get rid of these, annoyingly only the rears have worn out, meaning I still have 2 fronts which still have 4-5mm of tread left, only a complete idiot would ask for these to be fitted to the car again, they are not good for the money, no way in hell are they good for the money.

I even took the car around the 'Ring as it was close by when I was in Germany, 60mph around some bends and they were in agony, screeching like banshees.

Pay the tiny bit extra and get some Kumhos fitted at least, but for the love of all things holy do not get these tyres, unless you want to end up in a ditch on fire.

tyre reviewed on May 15, 2012
Given 56% (breakdown) while driving a Ford Galaxy (215-50-16-)
Driving on a combination of roads for 50,000 spirited miles

Slides all over in the wet.DO NOT BUY. Get Event as an alternative budget tyretyre reviewed on October 12, 2011
Given 86% (breakdown) while driving a Toyota Mark X (215-60-16-)
Driving on mostly motorways for 3,000 easy going miles

Really good for the prices that i paid for this TR918 tyres.tyre reviewed on September 24, 2011

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Now I've only done about 3,000 miles on them,(they've only been on for a month), in the winter, light snow, rain, and very low temperature dry conditions,

I've had absolutely no issues at all, they have been fine in all conditions so far, and the ASC hasn't lit up even once during this time, yet reading the reviews above, from such crappy low powered fwd diesel ste as a vectra, through to a fellow BMW owner, I should have killed people and found myself in a ditch.

How can I have such crap tyres, drive such high mileages as I do, at high speeds, and have no issues ?

What am I doing wrong ?

[MX7]

Different people have different opinions, which seems to be the whole point of Tyre Review.

[007 VXR]

Its down to your driving then
every tyre is different, cars are different, each driver is different, conditions are different and opinions are different and so on.

[HustleRussell]

Nigel Worc's said:

What am I doing wrong ?

Buying crap tyres.

(This is a joke).

[007 VXR]

HustleRussell said:

Nigel Worc's said:

What am I doing wrong ?

Buying crap tyres.

(This is a joke).

[Rollcage]

Poor tyres are more of a problem on FWD cars, as obviously the tyres have much more work to do.

I had a drive in an MG ZS 120 with cheap tyres on the front and in the wet it had extremely low levels of grip when driven on anything other than a feather light throttle. Not the first time I have noticed it, either.

Oddly, My Impreza came with some ditchfinders on the front, and has been fine - but then it is on winters now, and the cheapies won't be going back on.

National Tyres are doing a BOGOF on Avon ZV5s at the moment, so I reckon a set of them will be on soon enough!

[kambites]

IMO, good tyres are a performance thing, NOT a safety thing. For a decent driver, any tyres that have met EU type approval are perfectly adequate.

We've got the cheapest, nastiest thing the garage who sold it could find on the front of our Octavia, and I was expecting them to be terrible but it's absolutely fine.

[M4cruiser]

Modern budget tyres are much better now than "good" tyres were years ago, things have move on

[Rollcage]

I think there is a big difference between "budget" tyres and "ultra cheap". To me, a budget tyre is something like a Barum - perfectly acceptable in everyday use for all but the Lewis Hamiltons/Seb Loebs among us.

The Chinese ditchfinder stuff is cheaper again, and not usually to be found in the likes of KwikFit, ATS etc, but in independent tyre sellers.