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My tip to anyone buying new tyres - never automatically assume the tyre provider you used last time will be the cheapest this time. Or, just because they
have a few that are cheaper than the other sites, the one you like is cheaper. Overall, Asda tyres comes to mind as the best but be careful who you choose as fitters via Asda or yourself ie have tyres delivered to your home.
The oorginal tyres on my car were Dunlop sports. The ride was too hard IMO. When I changed, I went with a brand I trust and their RainSport tyres as it gives you confidence in the wet - the downside, they wear mover quickly possibly due to softer rubber, but the drive is much better. Om my C-classes I always used Continentals and then stuck with their winter tyres and when I put on and kept on the winter tyres, I told my insurance providers.
Cheap tyres have a longer stopping distance and make all of the difference between and accident and a near miss. I do miss not having the spare tyre in my car as like most cars it came with that inflation kit.

At times, it appears that eBay sellers may be selling a good deal but check the date of manufacture - just out of curiosity I looked on eBay for my 265/45/20 4x4 tyres - a brand I would not buy appeared to be a good deal - the seller appeared very open and honest and had many pictures of these brand new tyres. On closer inspection of the tyre pictures - the trees were manufactured almost 3 years ago. So if you don't use the car a lot and little wear on your tyres, IMO older tyres where car is often parked, not used that much, you can get cracking on side walls.

By the way, I've not stood next to an MB technician while they take my tyres off and on, but the few I have watched ie non-MB, you can tell they don't like being watched. They often pretend to use the torque for the proper setting, but the tyres have already been overtightened.

Having stated the above, many years ago I took our daughter's audi tt to a kiwikfit garage as brakes were making grinding noise - the car had been parked up for a few weeks (away on hols) after being driven in the rain - so I drove it around, still grinding - just drove into K/fit - free brake check they put a very young guy on the job who was new you could tell - he looked around the brakes, loosened all four tyres with a hand-held tool rather than the gun - brushed clean all discs, cleans with air and that brake cleaner stuff - tightened tyres properly with hand tool and then his manager took the car for test just up and down their car park - all sorted, it was just excess rust - I did not have to pay anything and offered a few qwid for a drink to the technician via his manger, but they thanked me and did not accept . My point is, often its luck of the draw how takes off your tyres etc
 
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Just as a general comment echoing sentiment here, the price of tyres is going nuts. My mate is looking at a low mileage Mustang (I know, right!?), and I've given him a steer on tyres and their value in being selective when buying a used car, noting that MPS4S are in this £300-400 per tyres region. These are £35-40k cars, very low 'weekend' mileage, and I've seen everything from new MPS4S on the best examples, to slightly worn Kustone Passion P9 tyres (yes, that really is a thing/brand) on others.
Difference in sale price to this £500-1000 value choice? Zero obviously.
 
Seems that the "cracking" seems to be an issue with the Kooks as that is the second time it has been mentioned on this thread alone.

For the sake of the £100 extra it maybe an idea to just go for the Conties SC 7`s.

K
I’ve found the Continentals are bad for cracking - you can’t win!
 
I’ve found the Continentals are bad for cracking - you can’t win!
You would think with a decent brand the cracking issues would be a thing of the past.
I know we have different experiences, often due to different use patterns, but I have never had any issue with cracking on Conti tyres which we've run on Angie's SLK55 since 2016 and I used to run on my E63's.

Age cracking is often a result of low annual mileage because it means the tyre isn't subjected to regular flexing that keeps it supple, but I've just looked at the Conti Sport Contact 5P's on Angie's SLK and there is absolutely no cracking to be seen. The fronts are 4 years and 7 months old and have covered 8.5k miles while the rears are 5 years 4 months old and have covered 10.6k miles. By contrast the Hankooks on my A220 exhibited severe cracking at 5 years old when they had covered 18k miles.
 
Between £400 - £500 per tyre is too much for a daily that only does 6 miles per day around town , as is £80 - £100 per tyre is too cheap for a 2T SUV.

I am budgeting around £250 per corner which should get me the mid range Hankooks or SC 7`s when they are on offer.

I could probably see the winter out with the original P Zero`s so plenty of time to get them ordered when they pop up somewhere on a special offer.

K
Goodyears on offer at ATS at the moment; brings the price of an F1 Asymmetric 6 in your size down to £314
Edit, actual even better, its £296 each !
 
315 30 22`s MP4S are £480 a piece , P Zero PZ 4`s are £560.

Hankooks @ £240 a corner (supplied not fitted) will suffice thank you very much.

Going to get the original DC wheels powder coated so they can fit the new rubber to the wheels when they are at it.

K
£244 kumho fitted .
 
My new to me E350 has a nice set of Bridgestone's on the front which I've used before with no issues on my CLK......but as it failed on the rear tyres last MOT and he new he was going to sell it, the rears have been fitted with a Chinese (?) brand I've never heard of (cant even remember the name to be honest....will post it when I get home)........they are fine in the dry and, out of interest I gave them a go on a couple of my favourite bends and got them to the point of howling with negligible movement and even in the wet they seem to have reasonable grip.....the test will come on wet days when the temp drops....then I will decide if they get replaced or not. Yes I know that the general view is that you should have the better, more grippy set on the rear.....but I have never subscribed to that view on a rear drive car......and anyway being a Sport it has staggered size AMG wheels and tyres so no swap is possible.
 
My new to me E350 has a nice set of Bridgestone's on the front which I've used before with no issues on my CLK......but as it failed on the rear tyres last MOT and he new he was going to sell it, the rears have been fitted with a Chinese (?) brand I've never heard of (cant even remember the name to be honest....will post it when I get home)........they are fine in the dry and, out of interest I gave them a go on a couple of my favourite bends and got them to the point of howling with negligible movement and even in the wet they seem to have reasonable grip.....the test will come on wet days when the temp drops....then I will decide if they get replaced or not. Yes I know that the general view is that you should have the better, more grippy set on the rear.....but I have never subscribed to that view on a rear drive car......and anyway being a Sport it has staggered size AMG wheels and tyres so no swap is possible.

I had rotalla race on my c250. Cost me less than £200 for all 4. Absolutely fantastic tyres imho.

Good to see a tyre thread spiralling out of control. We need tyre threads 😁 I never tyre of them.
 
Very few Mr D - I can think of only 2 roads in a 5 mile radius of home that have them. Potholes and kerbs are a bigger issue😞
The cracking on that tyre is very severe. For the tread blocks to be cracked suggests that there something more than just aging.

The reason I ask is the the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S I fitted to Mrs D’s car had tread blocks delaminating on the shoulders. I never did get round to complaining to Michelin about it, as I had a set of Pirelli PZero in storage at Pirelli and switched them.

Pirelli said that whilst it could be a manufacturing issue - they were around 1 year and 20% worn - they said it could be down to speed cushions, but they would expect the tread blocks to crack long beforr before delaminating (mine weren’t cracked.

Pirelli are of course completely impartial as they were Michelin tyres.
 
The cracking on that tyre is very severe. For the tread blocks to be cracked suggests that there something more than just aging.

The reason I ask is the the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S I fitted to Mrs D’s car had tread blocks delaminating on the shoulders. I never did get round to complaining to Michelin about it, as I had a set of Pirelli PZero in storage at Pirelli and switched them.

Pirelli said that whilst it could be a manufacturing issue - they were around 1 year and 20% worn - they said it could be down to speed cushions, but they would expect the tread blocks to crack long beforr before delaminating (mine weren’t cracked.

Pirelli are of course completely impartial as they were Michelin tyres.
Not sure of the cause Mr D. The Hankooks were the factory-fitted tyre on our 2018 Leon and I replaced them in 2022. The fronts were getting down to the wear markers and whilst the backs were of tread-wise, both the fronts and backs were cracking along the tread to sidewall join. Tracking/alignment looked fine with nice even wear on all four corners. At the time, I wanted to get them replaced prior to the MOT and I'd typically left it to the last minute, so for ease another set of Hankook Ventus S1 Evos went on.
2 years down the line and the replacement set are going the same way.
Despite being loads of tread left, they're getting binned on Thursday and a nice new set of Goodyears are going on courtesy of ATS and their £70 off offer.
 
Not sure of the cause Mr D. The Hankooks were the factory-fitted tyre on our 2018 Leon and I replaced them in 2022. The fronts were getting down to the wear markers and whilst the backs were of tread-wise, both the fronts and backs were cracking along the tread to sidewall join. Tracking/alignment looked fine with nice even wear on all four corners. At the time, I wanted to get them replaced prior to the MOT and I'd typically left it to the last minute, so for ease another set of Hankook Ventus S1 Evos went on.
2 years down the line and the replacement set are going the same way.
Despite being loads of tread left, they're getting binned on Thursday and a nice new set of Goodyears are going on courtesy of ATS and their £70 off offer.
Ooooh I do like new tyre day.
 

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