Thread: Your Favoured Brand Of Tyre

Hi MH, i had Hancook tyres on a new Hyundai I purchased back in 2000 and I had a good run out of them. I am not a speedie merchant so don't know how they would stand up to hard driving but for the average use around the city and occasional long trips of over 2000kms, they did all I wanted, in fact, I replaced them with another set of Hancooks when they wore out. This is going back to the days when Hancook tryes were relatively unknown but now they are not as cheap as they use to be.

I personally like Pirelli P6000s. They are a good all weather tyre with plenty of wet weather grip. Only little fault I find is that they can be noisy on some cars.

Also like the Yokohamas for the same reason. They are not as noisy as the Pirellis.

I would think it depends on the type and size of the vehicle. I remember fitting Hankooks to a bike some years ago and being happy with them. They don't make a tyre to fit my current ride but would be interested to see what they have to fit my Excel work bus.

The people mover we bought had carp Kumho's on it as factory standard, they didn't last 20000km and this was with me rotating them every 5000km. Put some Pirelli's on it and after 30000km plus 5000km rotations as well they still look brand new.

The wheel/rim size on the "bus" limits us to only three tyre brands - Kumho (Never again on any vehicle I own.), Michelin (None in stock and weren't going to before a few months had to come from OS.) and the Pirelli's. Apparently classified as "light truck" tyres.

Ron

They don't make them any more Goodyear Grand ralley fabric radials best tyre I have ever had.

Depends.... on what you drive, where you drive, & how you drive.

I had a Corolla front wheel drive & did a LOT of wet bitumen windy mountain road.
I liked the Dunlop RD300 for grip but they wear out before they get to 35,000Kms.

I now have an X-trail & still do LOTS of wet bitumen windy mountain road.
The original set of tyres didn't even last 30,000Kms.

I have put a set of Coopers on now 'cos they are supposed to last 50,000kms.
They certainly have a much deeper tread pattern than the originals.
I was worried that the compound may be a bit hard but they seem to hang on just fine on the bends.

Originally Posted by artme

I personally like Pirelli P6000s. They are a good all weather tyre with plenty of wet weather grip. Only little fault I find is that they can be noisy on some cars.

Also like the Yokohamas for the same reason. They are not as noisy as the Pirellis.

X2 my vote for Pirellis. I have them on my '69 Fiat 124 sport (P600s), my '69 Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV (P6000s) though havnt found them to be noisy and just recently put a set of new P7s on my '03 Alfa Romeo 156 Sportwagon

Continental contact sport II, best performance tyres I ever had they were the original fitment for my Focus ST170.(17" 215 x 45... hot hatch size)
Since I've had Pirelli P6000, bridgestone Potenza's and currently Dunlop SP3000A.(car has 70k on the clock...)

Conti's had good grip dry and wet, were quiet and got 20ks from them, the only disadvantage was the price at $420 each

Pirelli's were ok but very noisey(focus has tuned sports suspension... very hard)and were not that flash in the wet, in dry weather they were lineball for grip with the Conti's, but only got 12k from them!

Bridgestones were utter crap no grip wet or dry were extremely noisey, they gave the EBS of the focus much trouble(the ST was the 1st Aust sold car with it as standard). Although they gave the best mileage 25k I attribute this to a hard compound, too hard for the speed ratting of the Tyre IMHO. Would have got 30k+ if left to the wear indicators... I replaced them because they were getting to noisey and unsafe for the focus's ability's(too skatey).

The Dunlop's, fitted currently have reasonable grip in the dry not as good as the pirelli's but out perform the pirellis in the wet, road noise is better than the pirelli's but not as good as the conti's. They have 15k on them and need replacing, but thats only because of wheel alignment/rotation... its my fault they are scrubbed out, I reckon they would have given 20~25k.

1st preference is Michelin for everything we have owned VW, Carola, Landcrusier, 60,000k's it depnds on the mighty $$$$

Landcruiser, Nissan Sunny, Camry (we own now) all have had either Hankooks or Kumho average K's 60,000 to 150,000 for one set on the cruiser and it was often on long highway and dirt. Landcrusier were a highway off road tyre.

When I got the choice with coach tyres Michelin or Hankooks, Kumho 10,000 to 40,000 average 60,000 one set complete thats 8 tyres.

When ever Bridgestones or Goodyear were involved on any vehicle lucky to get 25,000 k's

I'm with wheelin, Michelin on everything. Jeep, volvo at present but mostly everything I have ever driven both private and commercial.

I've put 17,000kms on my Coopers in 3 months, I'm happy with them.

Hi All,
We are a 2 vehicle Family. I have a '96 Toyota Hi-ace, & I put Michelin's on.
Well what a different Vehicle to drive & so much quieter, than the Toyo's, that were also good.
We also have a 2007 Nissan Tiida, FWD.
Not sure what Tyres, but it has 46000 on it, & I did look recently to see if they were OK, & they were. The reason I looked was a chap nearby has a Focus ( Crap in our minds) & his Tyres did not make 20000.
The Lady mainly drives the Tiida.
So I'm a Very Happy Chappie.
Regards,
issatree.

My vote is for the Michelins. 60,000km plus.

Hi All Again,
Well, smack me dead with a Mackerel, The Nissan Tiida has Bridgestones B 250's .
Never cared for them much, but can't fault them this time.
The Tiida actually has 47500 K's. on the Speedo. Tyres still look good.

I was talked into putting B/Stones on a '79 Mercedes 300D. It rode like I think a Tank would be like. OK, so they were good in the wet, when was it last wet ?
This was 6 - 7 years ago now. Never forgive myself for being so silly.
Michelin were the only Tyres for a Merc.
Regards,
issatree.