Jinyu Tyres

Ubbquittious

They're fcuking everywhere you look these days. Why? Are they exceptionally cheap? I've not once heard a soul wax lyrical about them so I doubt it's because of hordes of people demanding Jinyus from tyre fitters so there must be another reason. Any idea?

SpannerMonkey

they are cheap and thats all most people care about unfortunately

PsychoPete

Can get them trade price for around €30 so nice mark up to be made on them

corks finest

SpannerMonkey wrote: »

they are cheap and thats all most people care about unfortunately

I'd avoid TBH especially in wet weather,or rural roads,had them a while back on a different car , never again, bloody slippy

bazz26

They are black, round and cheap. That's the only criteria for most people when it comes to tyres

Ubbquittious

bazz26 wrote: »

They are black, round and cheap. That's the only criteria for most people when it comes to tyres

But there's loads of those brands. Landslide, triangle to name but a few why is Jinyu so popular?

Be all the more common in the times we’re facing now too. Can’t really blame people in a way.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

When I bought a car not too long ago, they were on all 4 corners. And it was an auto diesel rear wheel drive.

I done multiple of tens of thousands kilometers on them. (Mostly motorway) and I couldn't wear the things down

They were slippery as ice skating and in the rain was just out right dangerous.

But bizzarely when we had that snow about 2/3 year back I got to work no bother on them !

But I was purposely wheel spinning the back wheels etc just to get them to wear down and that took a while but I was glad to get a good brand on there.



(People here will probably have a go at me for not just changing the tyres anyway if I wasn't happy with them)

Blaze420

Cheap Chinese tires are great until you hit wet roads on them, it’s not worth the risk no matter how attractive the price is

bazz26

Ubbquittious wrote: »

But there's loads of those brands. Landslide, triangle to name but a few why is Jinyu so popular?

Maybe they are just a common brand in tyre centres because the profit margin on them is pretty good. Or maybe it's just one of life's mysteries.

Rodney Bathgate

Cheap Chinese sh*t flooding the market just like the sh*t PPE. I’m surprised at the Chinese.

FintanMcluskey

Blaze420 wrote: »

Cheap Chinese tires are great until you hit wet roads on them, it’s not worth the risk no matter how attractive the price is

Long dry spells followed by rain can be the most lethal road surface.
One car with poor quality tyres can effect another unfortunately.

colm_mcm

Blaze420 wrote: »

Cheap Chinese tires are great until you hit wet roads on them, it’s not worth the risk no matter how attractive the price is

Even in the dry they can be a handful.

Whocare

Must say there can be a good buy Chinese tyres have linglong on back of my car still have good grip with 15000 miles on them compared to Firestone on front 8000miles and almost to legal limit but they did a good job stopping the car when a red squirrel ran out onto road if linglong was on front too it could be goodbye squirrel

colm_mcm

Would you rather make tyres out of plastic than rubber?

The reason the cheap tyres wear well is that they are usually a very hard compound.

On a FWD car, the fronts will wear way quicker than the rears.

8000 miles is very poor though.

Whocare

colm_mcm wrote: »

Would you rather make tyres out of plastic than rubber?

The reason the cheap tyres wear well is that they are usually a very hard compound.

On a FWD car, the fronts will wear way quicker than the rears.

8000 miles is very poor though.

Yeah pretty bad almost bad uniroyal tyres get 10000 miles at most out Firestone. But for rear I will stick with linglong tyres. Front tyres that are doing most of breaking cheap tyres are false economy

grogi

Ubbquittious wrote: »

But there's loads of those brands. Landslide, triangle to name but a few why is Jinyu so popular?

They are probably rounder, blackier or cheaper. I am not sure which thought...

Blowheads

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

colm_mcm

Blowheads wrote: »

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

Have a look on blackcircles.ie
Prices are fitted and supplied

Lowest I’d go would be Cooper/Avon/Toyo etc. lower end of premium.
What’s the tyre size?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Ubbquittious wrote: »

But there's loads of those brands. Landslide, triangle to name but a few why is Jinyu so popular?

There’s a 171 Audi A7 3.0 Tdi quattro in a dealership beside me and it’s shod with 4 of China’s best Landsail 19” tyres! If I were buying it I would be demanding a premium brand on it, not the cheapest nastiest tyres they could find!!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Blowheads wrote: »

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

I recently fitted 4 x Kumho Ecsta PS71’s in 225/45/18 and they were a reasonable €110 a corner which isn’t bad. I’m very pleased with them so far, nice and quiet and great wet grip and they’re a good looking tyre too (which is quite important to me too)

pinktoe

Blowheads wrote: »

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

I got 4 20" Hankooks tyres 275 rear and narrower in front for €670 before Xmas. They didn't seemed too eager to order in better tyres but they are better than the Dunlops. I know they were 20min outside Galway but thought the price was pretty good.

I'd imagine Chinese ones would be at least 400?

Blowheads

colm_mcm wrote: »

Have a look on blackcircles.ie
Prices are fitted and supplied

Lowest I’d go would be Cooper/Avon/Toyo etc. lower end of premium.
What’s the tyre size?

255 35 r20

Whocare

Blowheads wrote: »

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

Kumho had good wear/grip out them

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

There’s a 171 Audi A7 3.0 Tdi quattro in a dealership beside me and it’s shod with 4 of China’s best Landsail 19” tyres! If I were buying it I would be demanding a premium brand on it, not the cheapest nastiest tyres they could find!!

If you have a 4wd vehicle, is the tyre quality less important?

Also with ABS, traction control etc, nowadays, does this also render premium tyres less necessary?

CoBo55

Blowheads wrote: »

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

Or buy a car you can afford to put tyres on...

Blowheads

CoBo55 wrote: »

Or buy a car you can afford to put tyres on...

Or find another thread to troll

colm_mcm

Blowheads wrote: »

255 35 r20

Hankook Ventus at €152 fitted would be good value IMO.

Blowheads

colm_mcm wrote: »

Hankook Ventus at €152 fitted would be good value IMO.

Hankook would definitely be a brand I have used, and at that price are attractive.
I suppose most people want a decent tyre, we can't exactly go racing on the roads we have round here so to find a good tyre at a reasonable price is paramount

colm_mcm

Hankook are original equipment on some cars.

mk7r

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

There’s a 171 Audi A7 3.0 Tdi quattro in a dealership beside me and it’s shod with 4 of China’s best Landsail 19” tyres! If I were buying it I would be demanding a premium brand on it, not the cheapest nastiest tyres they could find!!

I worked for an upper market main dealer for a few years and no matter the car, year or value they got the cheapest of the cheap tyres. Landsails were a favourite.

patrickc

a few weeks ago when everything was closed I noticed a large bulge on my front left tyre, the only place I could find open had only landsail tyres or remoulds. I took a landsail as it was safer than a big bulge. Not by choice though.

walshtipp

Generally I use either Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance or Michelin Energy Saver, both of which are excellent in the wet. Although Bridgestone Turanzas are not bad either.

tphase

Blowheads wrote: »

So what are the better budget tyres a man can buy?
Local supplier has ones from Turkey, says they're good, the name escapes me. Have 20's on an A6 so 4x anything premium I'd have to sell a child

Starmaxx? Think they are made in Turkey

Glen Immal

As a young broke motorist, I was in the cheap, black and round! Category when looking for tyres, lost the back end at 50 kph on a curving motorway slip road, greasy wet road after a dry spell...tyres were nearly New, but a hard compound so slippy as feck, That cost €800 To sort out, not so cheap tyres after all.
Sprung for a set of hankooks, my god, a what a difference almost 60000km of grippy goodness. Will not consider any other brand since, my local fitters supply 225/55/16 hankook ventus2 for 80€ a corner.

Ubbquittious

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

There’s a 171 Audi A7 3.0 Tdi quattro in a dealership beside me and it’s shod with 4 of China’s best Landsail 19” tyres! If I were buying it I would be demanding a premium brand on it, not the cheapest nastiest tyres they could find!!

Some lad today plonked a 7 series outside my door wearing Jinyus. I was Jinyuinely surprised to see them on that kind of a car and thats what inspired me to make the thread

. Tis one from the tiger so not as bad as the a7 though

TheBoyConor

The thing is, a lot of it is probably in your head. I would not be at all surprised if those super pricy premium brands that tyre snobs love were being churned out at a factory in Tianjin that also churns out shiploads of Wingwongs. Premium tyres are probably all just another exercise in badge engineering.

I've been driving a bangernomics Nissan Almera for near 6 years now on a random mixture of weird named tyres or no name tyres at times. Currently my two front tyres (on steel rims) are salvaged from a crashed car in a scrap yard. Good thread on them, so I took them home and got em for nothing. Flew through the NCT no bother.
I never had any bother whatsoever with them. Good grip, fine in wet. Easy driving.

People who slip and slide about on wet roads are usually just driving too fast for the conditions.

challengemaster

Mother of god.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

TheBoyConor wrote: »

The thing is, a lot of it is probably in your head. I would not be at all surprised if those super pricy premium brands that tyre snobs love were being churned out at a factory in Tianjin that also churns out shiploads of Wingwongs. Premium tyres are probably all just another exercise in badge engineering.

I've been driving a bangernomics Nissan Almera for near 6 years now on a random mixture of weird named tyres or no name tyres at times. Currently my two front tyres (on steel rims) are salvaged from a crashed car in a scrap yard. Good thread on them, so I took them home and got em for nothing. Flew through the NCT no bother.
I never had any bother whatsoever with them. Good grip, fine in wet. Easy driving.

People who slip and slide about on wet roads are usually just driving too fast for the conditions.

Wow

You know if you get something for free there's probably a reason for that ? It's not worth a ****.

And getting tires off a crashed car ? Bad enough used tyres but from a crashed car. No way

And btw, Michelins here come from the French factory I believe

Bridgestone are Europe local too as are Goodyear and it's major brands.

Sure wasn't that a big thing when the E markings became a requirement that the Chinese tires were getting turfed into the bin ?
And in some cases by the really special dealers that I saw first hand (George cosgrave in Dublin, thank baby jebus he's closed down a while now)
He was putting the good tyres on the car to pass the NCT and when it came back passed it was on with the dodgy crappy tire for you to drive away with and he would lie to your face to say it passed the NCT when it did no such thing.

TheBoyConor

I also did that on my car about 2 years ago. Temporarily swapped wheels to get through an NCT and then back on with the no name no e mark no date tyres with plenty thread

zilog_jones

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tossy

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

If you have a 4wd vehicle, is the tyre quality less important?

Also with ABS, traction control etc, nowadays, does this also render premium tyres less necessary?

Spot on. I stopped using tyres altogether around 18 months ago, it's hard on the rims but saves me a fortune.

colm_mcm

tossy wrote: »

Spot on. I stopped using tyres altogether around 18 months ago, it's hard on the rims but saves me a fortune.

False economy. your rolling radius is much smaller without tyres, so you're not going as fast as the speedo says, plus your odometer is putting more km on the car than you've travelled.

Short sighted at best.

Charles Babbage

tossy wrote: »

Spot on. I stopped using tyres altogether around 18 months ago, it's hard on the rims but saves me a fortune.

good idea, after all most of a tyre is only air anyway.

tossy

Charles Babbage wrote: »

good idea, after all most of a tyre is only air anyway.

It’s a cod of a racket. Think of all the clean air being wasted in tyres all over the world we could fix pollution over night.

Rodney Bathgate

tossy wrote: »

Spot on. I stopped using tyres altogether around 18 months ago, it's hard on the rims but saves me a fortune.

I make my own tyres.

Charles Babbage

tossy wrote: »

It’s a cod of a racket. Think of all the clean air being wasted in tyres all over the world we could fix pollution over night.

I'm ecological, I only use air in my tyres that has already been used for something else.