New tyres - is it a coincidence?
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My wife has a ford streetka and stuck two new Rovello tyres on it two months ago - cheap and cheerful I know. Since then the car wont hold corners at anything over 50, or even less in the wet. It slips sideways like a crab and the steering feels incredibly light sometimes.
Before the new tyres everything was fine - Checked steering and alignment - its spot on, suspension and bushes etc all OK, tyre pressures good too. Tempted to dump the tyres and put some better quality on, but wondered if anyone had similar experience?
Before the new tyres everything was fine - Checked steering and alignment - its spot on, suspension and bushes etc all OK, tyre pressures good too. Tempted to dump the tyres and put some better quality on, but wondered if anyone had similar experience?
Worth checking but are the tyre pressures correct, over inflation will give light steering and poor grip but they are still crap tyres.
At the end of the days those four little contact patches your tyres provide is all that is holding you on the road and it is worth spending a bit of money for decent tyres.
At the end of the days those four little contact patches your tyres provide is all that is holding you on the road and it is worth spending a bit of money for decent tyres.
I think cheap / s
t tyres are part of the reason so many people on the road these days don't ever go above 40mph.
I had some Nexens on my car when I bought it. They were new and its a light car so I thought it'd be OK - it wasn't. Power wheel spin in 2nd part throttle with 100 bhp front drive. The ABS was on every time I braked.
Swapped them for some all season Klebers (still not premium) and it was an effort to unstick them in any circumstances.
Generally you get what you pay for with tyres and saving £100 for 20k+ miles but having to tiptoe everywhere simply isn't worth it.
t tyres are part of the reason so many people on the road these days don't ever go above 40mph.I had some Nexens on my car when I bought it. They were new and its a light car so I thought it'd be OK - it wasn't. Power wheel spin in 2nd part throttle with 100 bhp front drive. The ABS was on every time I braked.
Swapped them for some all season Klebers (still not premium) and it was an effort to unstick them in any circumstances.
Generally you get what you pay for with tyres and saving £100 for 20k+ miles but having to tiptoe everywhere simply isn't worth it.
kambites said:
It shouldn't really be news to anyone that cheaper tyres, on average, have less grip. Especially in the wet.
I'd qualify that to; "crap tyres on average have less grip".It's worth doing a bit of research with tyres as some fairly expensive ones are pretty bad whilst some cheap ones can be good. The old Pirelli P6000s come to mind as a supposedly premium brand tyre that were downright scary in the wet.
I remember when I was a youngen I had a 1.1 saxo that I fitted michelins. It handled really well considering how basic the car was
Took it for a service and the garage gave me an identical car with some other brand of tyres on, I hit my usual corner at a certain speed and it just didn't really want to go around it, thankfully there was nothing c,ing the other way or I'd probably be dead
Ever since then I've tried not to scrape the barrel when buying tyres
Took it for a service and the garage gave me an identical car with some other brand of tyres on, I hit my usual corner at a certain speed and it just didn't really want to go around it, thankfully there was nothing c,ing the other way or I'd probably be dead
Ever since then I've tried not to scrape the barrel when buying tyres
I've always bought premium tyres but my latest car came with budgets on it.
In the dry it was acceptable but the lack of grip in the wet was laughable and dangerous IMO.
Anyhoos, 6 months later, premium brand tyres now fitted, it's like a different car.
The budgets were 45 quid each, the michelins were 130. That tells you all you need to know.
In the dry it was acceptable but the lack of grip in the wet was laughable and dangerous IMO.
Anyhoos, 6 months later, premium brand tyres now fitted, it's like a different car.
The budgets were 45 quid each, the michelins were 130. That tells you all you need to know.
T0MMY said:
I'd qualify that to; "crap tyres on average have less grip".
It's worth doing a bit of research with tyres as some fairly expensive ones are pretty bad whilst some cheap ones can be good. The old Pirelli P6000s come to mind as a supposedly premium brand tyre that were downright scary in the wet.
I formed the impression from various threads over the years that P6000s worked reasonably well on larger cars (I was certainly happy with mine) but unsatisfactory on smaller, lighter vehicles.It's worth doing a bit of research with tyres as some fairly expensive ones are pretty bad whilst some cheap ones can be good. The old Pirelli P6000s come to mind as a supposedly premium brand tyre that were downright scary in the wet.
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