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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…..

 

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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. 

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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:

 

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

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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.

 

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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

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

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

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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.

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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 🤣

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