Do please let us know what tyres you get, I need a new set this year, my garagiste (former F1 suspension engineer in the UK) says Hankook, I’m leaning towards Yokohama Advance HF D A008
As promised Mick, she chose and fitted 5 of
THESE @ £425-40 all up price. Covered 250 miles with them since (Cornwall visit to Son and Mrs) and although 55 instead of 60's they are excellent handling tyres so far and encourage you to explore the envelope including swallowing up the ample pot holes more readily unlike the previous ageing P600 fit running at 20psi.
She suggested 25psi as a start point for these, I would say she is bang on the mark there.
After another 2,000 mls she will check wear rates relative to pressures.
Recently fitted those to Mrs Deejay’s Mini Cooper a few months back, and they seem fine.
As an aside, purchasing from blackcircles in the past, because I did not favour any of their local fitting agencies, I requested delivery direct to my home. When I saw them, I thought for a moment that I had been given second hand tyres! Unfortunately, they were dispatched without any wrapping and had gathered huge amounts of fine cardboard dust from the floor of the delivery wagon. It had ingrained into all the patterns and writing on the side walls and took a lot of scrubbing to remove. My recent Morgan tyres were purchased from my favoured local tyre shop, and although they were about £4 dearer than BC , there was a Spring offer going of £10 cashback per tyre, so I ended up better off. Lesson learned…online isn’t always guaranteed to be cheapest.
Interesting that, I used BC purely as an indication of the properties of the tyres.
I always leave it up to the garage that we use to order the tyres themselves. I just tell them I want super grip in the wet and decent in the dry. Not really interested in the pricing or noise, nor wear.
Louisa will tell me if they have managed to shave a bit off the price and that's good enough for us.
We have been with them for all three cars for over 20 years and they are solid on fairness, thoroughness and great engineers being properly apprenticed, most have been through the MMC factory as part of their training.
Costing of tyres is not a subject I go near as that small patch on four corners is bloody vital compared to bolt on odds and sods.
P.S. did use BC for Heather's pocket rocket Polo they were Eagle top of the range - you don't want to be putting 192 bhp and 0-60 in 6Sec and top end 150 mph through any old crap do you.
As she rarely gets more than 25 mpg one can assume she is an explorer of some magnitude.
