Daft tyre names

[bunglebus]

New mota has some kwality rubber fitted. I mean Riken I've heard of, I thought Infinity was a tune by Guru Josh/Something Buzz Lightyear said

[leafsprung]

R   O   A    D  K  ING?

Yo must be F     K  ING  J  O   K  ING

[artdjones]

Have we had Charmhoo yet?

[sutty2006]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

Have we had Charmhoo yet?

Many times, but they’re always a giggle! 
 

I was looking for sets of tyres for the Audi. £250 gets you four…..

 

 

good for 149 mph, sideways, through the pearly gates in a ball of flames. 

[D.E]

Street-Jet...

[Nibbler]

I give you a winter tyre with the name Sunfull. 

[RoverFolkUs]

On 8/1/2023 at 5:57 PM, artdjones said:

Have we had Charmhoo yet?

I've got a single Charmhoo on my Focus! For some reason it was lying around in the workshop for ages, brand new, so I commandeered it as it was the right size 

[sierraman]

What about BCT Radials? A budget offering by the romantic sounding outfit called Beijing Capital Tyre Corporation. 

[5speedracer]

Road X RXMotion. A subsidiary of Sailun apparently. 

In it's defence it had a set of four.

 

[Jimbo]

Spotted at my local ditch finder retail outlet! 

[bunglebus]

Cor check out those D ratings for fuel efficiency. Bonus marks to the Compass for being crap in the wet too

[Nibbler]

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Nibbler said:

Probably responsible for more deaths than it’s more famous namesake.

[New POD]

On 01/08/2023 at 20:38, sutty2006 said:

Many times, but they’re always a giggle! 
 

I was looking for sets of tyres for the Audi. £250 gets you four…..

 

 

good for 149 mph, sideways, through the pearly gates in a ball of flames. 

It should be illegal to sell C or below for wet grip. FfS this is the UK. It rains. 

[Rightnider]

8 hours ago, Nibbler said:

Oh, that’s a good old Swedish remould! I had forgotten about them, AGI and Galaxie were other names. 

[Nibbler]

7 hours ago, Rightnider said:

Oh, that’s a good old Swedish remould! I had forgotten about them, AGI and Galaxie were other names. 

Didn’t take long before I found them as well.

[TataBobu]

Sorting by cheapest while searching for tires I've found a lot odf daft names. Bu the one that takes the cake has to be Gitti GittiAllSeason City. Here it is in all it's glory:

 

[sutty2006]

38 minutes ago, TataBobu said:

Sorting by cheapest while searching for tires I've found a lot odf daft names. Bu the one that takes the cake has to be Gitti GittiAllSeason City. Here it is in all it's glory:

 

Giti (geetee) do truck tyres too. See them a lot on hook loads and skip trucks. 

[bunglebus]

Keter - not one I've seen previously 

[sutty2006]

Headking on the MILs X3. Yikes. 

[bunglebus]

A what now?

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

A what now?

I can see the letters clearly , but my brain is telling me that says “KRAPTOS”.

[martc]

'Kapput' for me.

[leafsprung]

The school run is great place to find some miserable rubber.

This morning's stand out spot was an 'ilink Thunder' from all the lads at the Shandong Longyue Rubber Group.

https://www.protyre.co.uk/tyres/car-tyres/ilink/thunder-u09

This was on a Nissan Crapcow amongst a roulette of other utterly shocking value 'rubber' mounted on Nismo branded alloys. 

The best was the front offside with a sidewall bulge the size of a baby's head. Assuming, as you would, that no one would be that stupid enough to knowingly drive on something so obviously dangerous I did my civic duty and told the owner about it as they were getting their grandchildren out who they'd just ferried to school. "Oh yeah, that. My husband did it yesterday. Its alright, its booked in tomorrow". FFS

I assume that because massive alloys on 7 seater brat carrier equals a can of puncture repair snot instead of a spare wheel, people in such a situation just keep driving because they see no alternative. Madness.

 

[5speedracer]

On 7/31/2023 at 12:44 PM, bunglebus said:

New mota has some kwality rubber fitted. I mean Riken I've heard of, I thought Infinity was a tune by Guru Josh/Something Buzz Lightyear said

Riken is the budget brand on Michelin. Think it goes something like Riken - Kormoran - Kleber - Michelin in order of cost therefore performance, maybe!

[bunglebus]

How about a Sunwide 

And a Mazzini - upside-down of course

[bunglebus]

Winter tyre in hot weather, Saetta?

[catsinthewelder]

On 8/1/2023 at 8:38 PM, sutty2006 said:

…..

 

 

good for 149 mph, sideways, through the pearly gates in a ball of flames. 

Put a pair of those on the front of a rental van last week.  With the regard customers give for kerbs and things it's always a pair of budgets.

In fairness I don't think any of the many dents have been caused by crap tyres, just crap drivers.

[sutty2006]

18 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

Put a pair of those on the front of a rental van last week.  With the regard customers give for kerbs and things it's always a pair of budgets.

In fairness I don't think any of the many dents have been caused by crap tyres, just crap drivers.

Yeah rentals don’t last long enough to be given bad reviews 🤣

[bunglebus]