Daft tyre names

[Lacquer Peel]

Vans look gash on massive alloys and rubber band tyres. What is actual point.

[stonedagain]

Sailfish!

[Amishtat]

Noticed this on a mate's Pisshat at the weekend

 

[cobblers]

Wow! Being bald seems to suit them

[Skut]

They run Luckyland Happy Gallop close for ridiculousness.  And pretty much bald.

[twosmoke300]

Fitted some Roadcruza tyres this week!

[jumpingjehovahs]

Recently purchased a car with 2 Vigorous Hi-Fly's on the front - despite the ludicrous name they're not bad tyres. In the dry. 

[martc]

Recently purchased a car with 2 Vigorous Hi-Fly's on the front - despite the ludicrous name they're not bad tyres. In the dry. 

 

The drought is about to end, please report back in a week.

 

[bunglebus]

20180808_134903 by RS, on Flickr

[gtd2000]

I'd consider some remoulds if only to wind the people up I work with, who already think I'm crackers.

 

What are they actually like? Are they useable enough for 10k worth of wear or are they likely to go all funny and the tread fall off? I genuinely would like people's thoughts on them here?

 

Only ever had Colways back in the early 90's - false economy is the best way to describe them. Yes they look nice and new but last about 5 minutes.. 

[bunglebus]

20180814_095044 by RS, on Flickr

 

20180814_094937 by RS, on Flickr

[Split_Pin]

My 172 was bought with Constancy tyres all round. I don't have much confidence in them.

[Pillock]

Giti sponsor the truck racing, I think.

[bunglebus]

20180817_090644 by RS, on Flickr

 

20180817_090747 by RS, on Flickr

[sawdustman]

Vans look gash on massive alloys and rubber band tyres. What is actual point.

 

It's so you can't hear your radio on the motorway, and to jack your insurance price up £200 a year. That's why my T4 is back on steels

[bunglebus]

20180823_150300 by RS, on Flickr

[iainrcz]

I had Davanti tyres on my rcz. And yes they were shit. Although same level of shit as the continental that were on the front.

 

Anywhere even slightly greasy and they gave up trying to calculate the coefficient of friction and just sat spinning like demented washing machines.

 

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[bunglebus]

20180903_160554 by RS, on Flickr

 

20180903_160539 by RS, on Flickr

[Rusty_Rocket]

^^Deestone are a name from the past! They used to make those awful Land Rover tyres that roared like a jet plane taking off, at anything over 25mph.

Tough as old boots and were the tyre of choice off road.

 

I'd imagine the name has been bought by the Chinese?

[Liggle]

I bought my Bongo on some chinese 'Hi-Fly' tyres, think it must have been imported on them as there was no date stamp on the tyres.

[martc]

^^Deestone are a name from the past!

 

I'd imagine the name has been bought by the Chinese?

 

I think they are still based in Thailand, judging by their 'administrative speech'. And photo's of their Thai factories.

 

 

http://www.deestone.com/WhyDeestone/AboutUs.aspx#.W4-_02aot9A

[bunglebus]

I bought my Bongo on some chinese 'Hi-Fly' tyres, think it must have been imported on them as there was no date stamp on the tyres.

Saw some of them today but I think I've already snapped them - got these instead, with bonus grasshopper;

 

20180905_154134 by RS, on Flickr

 

The hire vans we get are a goldmine for awful tyres.

[AMC Rebel]

Just fitted a single unmatched Blacklion Champoint to old jaggy.  It has two Landsails on the front but they are not long for this world and will be replaced with Blacklion Champoints if there are any more.

[bunglebus]

20180906_151054 by RS, on Flickr

 

20180906_142741 by RS, on Flickr

 

20180906_142835 by RS, on Flickr

 

20180906_142905 by RS, on Flickr

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Found here

[JimH]

A search says not so maybe we haven't had my own personal favourite yet

 

Ling Long

 

I nearly laughed myself sick at the idea of asking a burly tyre fitter to take a look at my Ling Long.

[Guest Hooli]

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Found here

 

We haz a winnah!

[LessThanEqual]

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Found here

Dębica are budget Polish tyres, brand owned by one of the big ones.

[New POD]

I asked for tyre recommendations on the Barryboys forum, years back, and went for these on advice given then. There's probably a much wider choice available now, but I was certainly pleased with the advice.

 

They're not the sportiest choice but we drive on public roads so really extremes of grip is not the main point. We do, however, live in Britain so wet performance is important. I felt that Uniroyals work as advertised and behave very much the same in wet and dry conditions.

 

Tyres are so important to safety and handling, but at safe and normal road speeds there's probably no need to spend a fortune on premium names where a cheaper option will be 90% as good.

Ditto. There's four on the omega because wet grading is A

 

That plus traction control* seems to keep it all nice and sensible in the rain.

 

Only had it kick in once in 45k miles and I think I wasn't awake enough to have caught the slide that would have happened.

[Eddie Honda]

At Belfast Port, just seen a lorry advertising these Euro Tyfoon https://www.tyfoonbanden.nl :

 

 

I found a review, which indicated they were utter shite in the wet.