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On 8/12/2019 at 10:03 PM, stuboy said:

best name for me always was stomil, had on my fiats and fso

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NO.

It's time for this reminder again.

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Remember kids, say not to Stomil.

It translates as "100 miles" which is how long they last.

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2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

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The Achilles - you couldn't make it up! The weakest link in a vehicles safety, comfort and handling is the tyre - both it's condition and quality, so why not name your offering after a well known weakness which led to the downfall of a hero?

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I was idly inspecting a slightly shitey looking DAF LF tipper at work (as you do) and noticed some interesting (for a given value of interesting) tyre names that I thought I might disseminate on here...

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N/S rear outer was the Double Coin (Not pictured the Fulda on the O/S rear)

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N/S front had the Triangle tyre (apparently one of the world's biggest tyre makers)

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The O/S front was also a Triangle (going by the triangle emblem) but with the tyre name in forrin.

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21 hours ago, warch said:

N/S front had the Triangle tyre (apparently one of the world's biggest tyre makers)

The O/S front was also a Triangle (going by the triangle emblem) but with the tyre name in forrin.

Another marketing genius at work - lets call a traditionally very round object after a well known pointy one with straight sides. Brilliant.

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Ahhh I spy a Davanti tyre there, woman at work put a set of 4 on her new civic for under 180 quid then wondered why the car suddenly became a handful as she'd replaced the worn out continentals it came with new, surprise surprise the worn out contis on 2mm had significantly more grip than the brand new Davanti's.

Cheap chinese shit, don't do it folks. 

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