Budget brand tyres

Best bang for your buck is gonna be good quality part worns should be gotten for 30-45e depending on the tyre.

Budget tyres are cheap for a reason

Never skimp on the rubber.
Its all you have between you and the road.

How much are you prepared to spend OP?

Try and find out/look at the rating on the tyre also.

Temperature rating and road hold is what I find most important.

I had Michellin sports from original and changed to uniroyal rainsport 2 and getting the latest fitted shortly as they have the best wet rating on all tyre out there.

I feel the same as most are saying on here it's the only thing keeping you and the machine on the road and it's well worth it paying a little extra for a safer drive.

Look up the likes of eiretyres.com

robertxxx wrote: »

Semperit tyres in coolmine €60 each.

In that size? :eek:

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Wangli Ditch-finders - you'll get a massive bang when you hit something and a buck is about what they cost to make.

Or Vredestein at somewhere around €90 a tyre, which might cost more than a buck, but you'll get less bangs.

Where can you get Vredstein in that size for €90 fitted?

I'm actually looking for a set of 4 tyres in the same size as OP, and this seems really cheap.

delly wrote: »

Just as a matter of FYI, I got a couple of tyres recently a from a local supplier here in Drogheda, I took a note of prices for my size which was 205/55/16 fitted. I may not have model name exactly right, but you'll get the idea.

Kormoran Runpro2 €60
Semperit Speedlite V €70
Hancock Kinergy Eco €67
Bridgestone Terenza T001 €75
Dunlop Blue R €75
Bridgestone A001 €80
Good Year Effect Grip €75
Continental premium control 5 €90

Was that McManus tyres by any chance?

Vredistien ultracs are cheap enough from cam skill 10-15 quid more than what Irish tyre places will charge for ditchfinders and tell you.

"Shurre they are grand boss has them on the van"

"They have a nice thread pattern"

Or some such nonsense

biko wrote: »

You get Uniroyal RainSport 3 on eiretyres for 107 per tyre, that size

You can get them supplied and fitted/balanced in Dublin for €103 each.

Why people harp on about camskill/eiretyres I don't know, I've said this numerous times but I've never bought tyres on-line as they are always cheaper suppled and fitted from discount tyres in Dublin.

I'd recommend from experience the Toyo Proxes or CF1, and the Hankook Ventus Prime. I haven't tried the Vreidstien or Nokian brands - but have not heard anything bad about them. All seem excellent mid priced tyres.

I'd avoid the cheap stuff - no Naankang, Sunny or Wanli, etc. as I have nothing but bad experience with them.

Yawns wrote: »

Because not everyone lives in Dublin nor want to travel so far that the cost of fuel to have the tyres changed is greater than savings. My local tyre fitters are a joke. They charge €110 for Sunnys. This was what I Was quoted 2 weeks ago for size 14's. The best quote from a "local" tyre fitter was 23kms away.

They deliver too, keeping your money in Ireland. €10 nationwide for 2 or more tyres last time I checked.

Yawns wrote: »

€110 and people who have no clue will think it's a grand tyre etc. Not all locals are like that but unfortunately I fear for what's on the cars in my area.

OT:

Two week's ago, my friends wife went in to a tyre shop and asked for a pair of decent tyres for the front of their Trajet.

A week later, I was a passenger in the said car, when it lost front end grip on a roundabout at a ridiculously low speed and understeered like a pig from the inner lane to the outer lane before my friend wound off lock and recovered. Knowing the roundabout well, it is not known to be one of the slippy ones out there.

When we stopped, I had to checkout what happened. I was sure the car had low tyre pressure or something like that. What did I see up front? A pair of Sunny tyres. With a family to cart around, I pointed out that it would be hard to find a worse set to tyres to be guiding a heavy MPV around on - and I'd expect a tyre "expert" to have pointed this out.

Just realised discount tyres also fit. My reluctance to use online ordering has been that I've found it hard to get them fitted afterwards.

bartbanis wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good budget brand tyre for a 225/45/17? There are alot out there and need to purchase 4, would like to get the best bang for my buck.

From an Italian Alfa 159 owners forum I am member of, most of the "non-premium" brands recommendations would be, in no particular order:

Khumo
Hankook
Nankang
Nexen
Nokian (yeah, they are Finnish and related to the electronics company)
Vredestein
To a lesser extent, Accelera PHIs

We are talking mostly the 225/50 ZR17 98W flavour here. All the recommendations come from people who actually put the tires on their cars (1.6 tonnes saloons ranging from 120 to 260 Hp) and drove them in the pretty extreme weather and road conditions you find in Italy (extremely hot with oily tarmac in the summer, monsoon-style rain, cold and sometimes snow in the winter). Also bear in mind that in general, the driving style is more..."spirited" down there, the roads are much more flowing and that most of these drivers are passionate enough about their cars; we're definitely not talking about people who drive 30 Kph below the speed limit. The opposite, very likely.

Personally, my own car came with two Accelera PHIs at the back; It is hard to fully evaluate them on a FWD car, but this far they posed no problem whatsoever. They clearly can't match the Continentals that are up front, but certainly aren't "dangerous" or "ditch finders".

SleeperService wrote: »

While I have heard good reviews of accelera phi, never ever buy accelera alpha.
Awful.

Actually I read the same about the Alpha. Would stay away, although I never tested them first hand. Again, first hand experience on the non-driven axle, the PHI are ok. Won't set the lap record on a wet Silverstone, but won't land you in a field either.

H3llR4iser wrote: »

Actually I read the same about the Alpha. Would stay away, although I never tested them first hand. Again, first hand experience on the non-driven axle, the PHI are ok. Won't set the lap record on a wet Silverstone, but won't land you in a field either.

When we bought our last FWD car, they were fitted on the rear. They behaved fine, but were not really stressed much.