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We needed two fronts on the fwd car so decided on some all season knowing that the rears weren't far behind.
Just recently, the wife sorts an MIT for the car which failed on one of the tyres. Instead of remembering the plan, she agreed to them replacing the tyre.
So, we now have a pair of all season front with only a couple of thousand miles at most.
Summer tyre on the rear with only a few hundred on it and a summer tyre on the other side of the rear that will need replacing in the next few hundred miles.
So, do we take it on the chin with the new summer tyre and fit a pair of all season on the rear? Or do we match the summer tyre on the rear, thereby running all season up front and summer on the rear?
Or possibly, move the all season to the rear and run the summers up front? The thinking being that the summers will wear faster up front. In the summer, the better tyres up front are less of a risk than in the winter when the best tyres are on the rear?
For reference, whatever the tyre, we're looking at about £150 per corner hence the conundrum.
By the way, it's a mum bus if a car, not driven at the cutting edge of performance
Put £150 under your bed for now.
In September ish, get it back out and buy two matching all season tyres. One of which will be £150, the other sort of 'free' because you'd forgotten about the first £150 that your going to 'spend' now.
Do you have a full-size spare? Stick the new tyre in the boot?
I'd get a pair of all seasons in time for autumn. All seasons all round is great.
That's the idea, but it means binning a continental premier contact 7 with a few hundred miles on it.
That's the idea, but it means binning a continental premier contact 7 with a few hundred miles on it.
There seems to be big market for people wanting 'part worns', so must be a way to sell it.
I posted once on here that I wanted to switch to all seasons but was considering doing it an axle at a time as my rears were good. I was told I would die in a firey death. Bare in mind the expert advice (that everyone argues) is to always have your 'best' tyres on the rear, even on a FWD car.
What size tyre is it? Because I pay less than £150 for 275/40/19 tyres. Surely something normal like a 225/45/17 should be closer to £100?
I'd be tempted to stick the one good Continental in the shed and bung on some e.g. Michelin Cross Climate 2 @ £95 each, then the next time you need a new tyre you only need to buy one Conti cos you can put the one in your shed back on the other side.
summers on the front, wheelspins out of the school gates for a bit then once they`ve been enjoyed match the all seasons up
215/55 R17
Seems an expensive size for no real reason.
Nothing too bad here unless you're adamant you want e.g. Pilot Sport 5 for reasons. I'd happily recommend the Vredestein Ultrac+ or Bridgestone Turanza, both around the £100 mark, and I get along fine with Kumho Ecsta PS71 on a rwd car in Scottish winters so they should be OK as well.
Nothing too bad here unless you're adamant you want e.g. Pilot Sport 5 for reasons. I'd happily recommend the Vredestein Ultrac+ or Bridgestone Turanza, both around the £100 mark, and I get along fine with Kumho Ecsta PS71 on a rwd car in Scottish winters so they should be OK as well.
I'm currently waiting on a full set of Kumho Ecstas to be fitted to my RWD daily wagon after reading some really good reviews. Other option was Uniroyal Rainsports but they weirdly don't seem to do them in the sizes I needed (staggered wheels - did some to fit the rears but not the fronts).
@theflyingfox Wherever you're getting Crossclimates from at £95 is a bargain. I've just paid £690 for four in 245*45*18 which is the cheapest I could find.
PS71 is excellent but it's very much a budget uhp summer tyre, I treat em as a cheaper pilotsport basically (on the basis that the best UHPs are absolutely ridiculously good and you have to be deranged to get near their limits on the road in a typical car, I figure it's a decent place to spend a little less) It feels more or less like buying an older generation top end tyre.
They do have pretty poor bad weather manners though, as do most modern uhp summers, it's just built into the tread pattern and compounds. Fine in the rain, they get a bit nadgery and loose when it's cold and they're useless in mud and slush and wet or polished snow especially. Like, I wanted to go out for an irresponsible skid in the snow in my mx5 and I literally couldn't get it off the driveway 🙂