The Legacy needs new tyres - been quoted £121 a pop fitted at Costco for Michelin Pilots (215/45R17)
ATS quoting me £450 for all four fitted but forgot to ask what make.
Comments please on
A) Pilots
B) any good deals on quality brands at present on the hgh street.
Cheers
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Mytyres has Toyo T1-R's or Vredestein Ultracs - both tyres I have found to be excellent - in that size for ~£80 a corner. Might be worth checking if they have a suggested fitter in your area if that interests you (or if you can find someone yourself who'll fit them).
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Try:
www.etyres.co.uk
I have no affiliation with them: I have just used them a few times and found them to be useful , economical and efficient (book a few days in advance though from exeperience).
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I also have Ultracs fitted - good up to now. I've noticed they should be longer lasting than the Michelins they replaced. Treadwear figure is 280, Michelins I had on were 220.
As an aside I saw an X5 with Bridgstone tyres treadwear figure was only 120 - potentially expensive tyre replacement costs for one of these.
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Falkens have been highly recommended to me, my friendly tyre centre has them in the Mondeos 205/50-17 for under £70 fitted where as I paid over £90 for the last Bridgestones. Alternatively you can order them online, your 215/45 R17 size are as little as £53.13 inc vat plus delivery.
www.falkentyres.co.uk/index.asp
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Way back in February, I reported poor mileage on Pilots on my Seat Leao Cupra.
How many miles have they done?
I'd try something else FWIW
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My Legacy had Bridgestones on & when the fronts wore out I put Fuldas on, it seemed fine, but given the time again I'd probably go Goodyear F1 GSD3
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A serendipitous post from Nsar, since I'll be faced with exactly the same question on the same model Legacy in a few months time.
I was also contemplating Piots, but according to this, they don't appear too good in the wet:
tinyurl.co.uk/bpxg
More of the satndard Bridgestones, perhaps?
Davros
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You could try the new michelin primacy HP.These are fairly long lasting and very good in the wet.I shall be fitting four next month.Both costco and Micheldever tyres came out at the same price.
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I have Michelin Pilot Primacys on my Mondeo Mk II.
I have found they grip exceptionally well, wet or dry, which is why I've continued buying them to replace the HXM's (?) the car came with when new.
As a matter of fact I've just replaced the ones on the front again. The previous pair lasted 40,000 miles, and this is on a FWD car which is noted for being heavy on front tyres.
I was looking at a leaflet about the Michelin Primacy HPs while I was in the tyre shop waiting. Won't be any use to me, I'm afraid, they aren't available in the size for my car.
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You could try the new michelin primacy HP.These are fairly long lasting and very good in the wet.I shall be fitting four next month.Both costco and Micheldever tyres came out at the same price.
I have just had a pair of Primacy HPs on our C5 and I am very impressed with them. I think they are a little quieter than the Pilot Primacy tyres, that were fitted previously, and have better grip too.
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I have Pilot Premacies (now 3) on the Accord - not driven hard very often and the fronts do 30k ish and the rears 45-50k. One was replaced with a Premacy HP when I had a puncture on the M25 - Lease company chooses tyre and the depot did not have a Premacy.
Have not noticed any difference with the HP and too early 5k to see if wear is any different.
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Falkens have been highly recommended to me, my friendly tyre centre has them in the Mondeos 205/50-17 for under £70 fitted where as I paid over £90 for the last Bridgestones. Alternatively you can order them online, your 215/45 R17 size are as little as £53.13 inc vat plus delivery.
I have a pair of ZE512's (directional) on the front of the Mondeo (195/60 15 H rated). £43 each fitted at Micheldever Tyres. Very good in wet and dry, and about 50% worn after 7,000 miles. Still perfectly balanced as well.
Wouldn't hesitate to use them again or recommend them to others.
Cheers
DP
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Sorry, typo - should read 20% worn (number keypad and fat fingers)
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Sorry, typo - should read 20% worn (number keypad and fat fingers)
I'm sorry, your fingers are too fat to dial. If you wish us to send you a dialing wand, pease mash the keypad now.
I love that line.
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Ooh - I could do with a tab.
No time for that now - there's work to be done!
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Need to get one of those silly bird on a spring things... heh heh..
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I got about 10% off at ATS when they fitted a pair of pilots through the AA< ,get them to confirm the make though lol
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Gone for ATS - £450 for Continental Sport Contact 2. It was only £3 a corner less with BlackCirlces replacing the Bridgestones.
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You could have got four Falken 215/45/17 87Y FK452s delivered for £260 and paid you friendly local tyre place £50 to fit them! A saving of £140 and they are very good tyres.
You pays your money .................
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I'll stick with a brand I know.
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I'll stick with a brand I know.
I certainly wouldn't argue that that is a bad idea, but I seem to be ina slightly funny mood today, which leads me to be unable to stop myself asking the question:
With that principle, how did you reconcile which tyres to have on your first ever car?
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I used to think that way until our old fleet manager did a deal with Dunlop and we were forced to fit SP Sports to all our cars whenever they needed new tyres.
They were utterly, utterly dreadful if the road was anything other than bone dry. "Known" brands guarantee nothing.
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....er all the cars I've ever bought have had tyres on them at the time.
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Yeah, didn't explain myself very well there.
My point was that, if you haven't ever owned a car before, then you have no experience to base your tyre choice on, therefore what tyres do you demand on that car?
But it hardly matters, my funny mood has ended now.
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>....er all the cars I've ever bought have had tyres on them at the time.<<
Now you're just showing off.
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I'll stick with a brand I know.
I agree, I usually take that view however I was recomended to Falken, did a bit of research and will probably buy some when I next need tyres. They are not a budget brand, performance and wear rates are up with the best.
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Nankang NS-2's are highly rated and at £50 each plus fitting, seem to be a bargain. Nankang seem to be in a similiar position to that of Toyo a few years ago, with good tyres at a good price, once word gets around and they start selling in good numbers expect the price to rise!
In my opinion Toyo's are too close in price now to Goodyear's etc to be a good buy like they used to be. The price of success?
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