Advice needed on Kumho tyres please

[Howard]

Hi all

Need some tyres soon , seen on tyre leader that they have Kumho Ecsta le Sport on sale at the mo.

Any stories about Kumho ? I don't know a lot about them .. Good tyre ?

Seem rated pretty well , A for wet grip , C for fuel and C for noise.

Tyre Kumho Ecsta Le Sport KU39 245/40 ZR18 97Y XL - Tyre Leader

 

[merc85]

Kumho's are fine, Orginal equipment Runflats on Bmw Mini's

 

[grober]

Korean manufacturer with a manufacturing presence in Europe I believe. At one time MB fitted "from factory" on the old A class. Good for higher profile tyres at one time. Ran them on my old W124- favourably impressed with ride comfort and wear- performance limits not really tested but never found wanting. Good value if you can get past the badge snobbery. They are a mid market tyre don't pay a premium price

 

[geraldrobins]

We have had Kumhos on our Ford for the past 4 years and no problems. Good wear for a medium priced tyre. Not sure about noise or grip, but suits us.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Put 4 on my old W220 and they were on for around 40k miles, no issues.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Put brand new Kumho tyres on my old W211 E320 CDI Sport and they were impressive and ticked my two most important boxes; quiet and grippy.

 

[Howard]

Cheers guys just what I needed to hear

 

[rhud]

Korean manufacturer with a manufacturing presence in Europe I believe. At one time MB fitted "from factory" on the old A class. Good for higher profile tyres at one time. Ran them on my old W124- favourably impressed with ride comfort and wear- performance limits not really tested but never found wanting. Good value if you can get past the badge snobbery. They are a mid market tyre don't pay a premium price

They were factory fitted to my previous 2007 W169 A Class. Seemed v hard compound and did not suit the car at all. Swapped to Continental - much better IMO.

 

[amiller81]

Previous owner had these fitted to the rear of my C63. I was worried at first as I thought of them as being a budget tyre but to be fair they were awesome! Only problem I found was there wasn't much rim protection.
On replacing then this year I also found them not to be much cheaper than the Goodyear F1 I eventually went for. Only about £20 difference in price.

 

[HB]

Got ku39 on my VR6. Great tyres for the money.

 

[mat8n]

I've just had 2 big wide tyres fitted to the back of my SL, the tyre place had kumhos as one of the brands that supplied the size and said they were good tyres, but I could get goodyears for the same price. so I got the goodyears.

 

[MicB]

I ran my CL420 on Kumhos and my BMW 735 before that.

Kumhos are fine.

Mic

 

[flango]

Howard I ran Kumho when we had the A8 450 bhp through the rear and they were absolutely fine I then switched to Michelin and TBH they weren't as good more road noise and lower grip levels

Would put Kumho on my car no problem at all

 

[C43AMG]

Howard if you go for them let us know how you get on, are they for the CLS ?

 

[optimusprime]

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