cheap ditch finder tyre review...

[bloke]

well after some pleb...:innocent:...taking camber bolts out of the wife's car, forgetting to do the tracking and her then doing 2,500 miles inside edge of her v12's have scrubbed off!!!!

decided to really push the boat out and throw a pair of these on it tomorrow morning...

at £30 each it would be rude not to!! tread pattern doesn't look to bad, blocks are small so shouldn't get much squirm, sipes are small though and not a full depth so not sure how they will be with standing water when they are a bit worn but time will tell.

so will we end up upside down in a ditch or will they be ok?

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

You should know better 😂

P.s. ditch

 

[BoatNonce]

f**k crap tyres. I've experienced them and I wouldn't even dream of it.

Unless I'm using them for skids, of course.

 

[Mr Plums]

I take it you dont like your wife?

 

[imprezaworks]

You've ruined the near new v12's I sold you, shame on you.

 

[Pauleds]

15"? Got some yokohama s drives here, and some toyos
@bloke

 

[c4pob]

When seeing the subject heading I expected to see something like this...

 

[Matt Scarbro]

Just bought a 200 with these exact tyres, so annoyed that someone would ruin such a good car by skimping and saving £100-120. :down:

Will have some nearly new 17s for sale shortly! 😂

 

[STEVE.M]

15"? Got some yokohama s drives here, and some toyos
@bloke

If 15" I`d have gone an extra £3.50 a tyre for some Rainsport`s.
If your Toyo`s are T1R`s,the Three A`s are B rated wet grip,opposed to the T1R`s E.
@bloke

 

[imprezaworks]

he's a crazy fool living on the edge.

 

[cs_dave]

#becauseHERO

 

[youngarthur]

I have run cheap tyres on the road,BUT, different ones for track. I have found cheap tyres are quite adequate for normal day use, and that includes frozen/wet/snow covered roads here in N/E Scotland, and NO, I haven't had any accidents running cheap tyres!.

 

[Knuckles]

RIP in advance

 

[car.crash]

I'm on hifly805
They are fine.
I give them death and still they hang on.

 

[alistairolsen]

f**k running budget tyres for the little saving they give you. Tyres are normally less than 1p/mile and nothing else will destroy your enjoyment of a car, or lead you into potential danger so cheaply.

 

[BoatNonce]

I'm on hifly805
They are fine.
I give them death and still they hang on.

Some cheap tyres are OK. I had Nexen N2000 Roadstones on my 1.2 and they were better than the T1Rs that replaced them. However there are also some really s**t budget tyres, for example Sunews. You won't know what you've got until you put them on though.

 

[Mr Plums]

Im looking forward to getting these goodyear ultragrips off mine!

They should be renamed goodyear ultraslips!

 

[STEVE.M]

Some cheap tyres are OK. I had Nexen N2000 Roadstones on my 1.2 and they were better than the T1Rs that replaced them. However there are also some really s**t budget tyres, for example Sunews. You won't know what you've got until you put them on though.

Camskill have a flood on new budget tyres,all B rated wet,in clio 15" & 16" sizes in the £28-£34 price bracket.

 

[Adam G]

She'll be fine

 

[bloke]

on the car so far we've had

nankang NS2, not a bad tyre, ok in the dry and wet but not amazing when you start to push it in the wet.
nankang NS20, SHITE!! would struggle to keep traction pulling off in a straight line in the wet!! bit iffy cornering when pushing it in the dry, not awful but you could feel the front starting to tuck.
hankook ventus V12 evo2 (?) very good tyre. great in the wet as well, had to give it some stick to get the front to tuck and even then no scary moments.

and on to the £30 tyres...found out they aren't called AAA because they make you go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA when you try and corner!!

they balanced with 10g one one and 20g on the other so promising start.
took the car out and kicked it's head in!! fresh tyres, around 5deg and damp roads. got a test route i normally do when trying to find knocks, get abs to kick in and see how much i can hurl a car round. it did fine!!

don about 30 miles with them on today booting it wherever possible and they seem good so far. i'd say probably on par with the hankook. would of liked it to of been a frosty day to see how good/bad they were but that will have to wait for now. be nice to get them on dry road with it a touch warmer as well to see how they behave.

so not dead or crashed as yet...

 

[imprezaworks]

Early days. Remember only 70/80 pound tyres allowed on these hot rods.

 

[STEVE.M]

on the car so far we've had

nankang NS2, not a bad tyre, ok in the dry and wet but not amazing when you start to push it in the wet.
nankang NS20, SHITE!! would struggle to keep traction pulling off in a straight line in the wet!! bit iffy cornering when pushing it in the dry, not awful but you could feel the front starting to tuck.
hankook ventus V12 evo2 (?) very good tyre. great in the wet as well, had to give it some stick to get the front to tuck and even then no scary moments.

and on to the £30 tyres...found out they aren't called AAA because they make you go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA when you try and corner!!

they balanced with 10g one one and 20g on the other so promising start.
took the car out and kicked it's head in!! fresh tyres, around 5deg and damp roads. got a test route i normally do when trying to find knocks, get abs to kick in and see how much i can hurl a car round. it did fine!!

don about 30 miles with them on today booting it wherever possible and they seem good so far. i'd say probably on par with the hankook. would of liked it to of been a frosty day to see how good/bad they were but that will have to wait for now. be nice to get them on dry road with it a touch warmer as well to see how they behave.

so not dead or crashed as yet...

Probably get better once you finish scrubbing the release agent off.

 

[LeeRS]

Ive got the nankang ns2 on mine. Grip in the dry is good even when pushing but when its wet you have to clinch your bumcheeks a bit and crack on.

 

[Knuckles]

Thank god, I've been worrying about you all day!

 

[bloke]

Thank god, I've been worrying about you all day!

bloody liar:laughing:

 

[mitch1503]

My current 172 had budgets on all round (were quite new) so thought id may aswel get some use out of them and surprisingly they weren't actually as bad as i was expecting

I probs spend more on tyres for the mrs car than i do my own (Swift Sport) and has Michelin PS3 up front with PE2 on the rear and that thing just grips and grips.
Had once fitted rainsport 3's onit and they were absolutely shite and got binned off, however iv not got RS3 on my clio and theyre ok.. weird how much they differ between the 2 cars

 

[Mr Plums]

Had once fitted rainsport 3's onit and they were absolutely shite and got binned off, however iv not got RS3 on my clio and theyre ok.. weird how much they differ between the 2 cars

The clio just handles better than the swift, theres no paramormal activity s**t going on mate.

 

[oVerboost.]

Budget tyres give the feeling of a hire car.... and everyone know's they are the fastest and best handling cars produced

To be fair, budgets on a daily that doesn't get pushed should be fine. My go to budget are the Nankangs although not bought a set for any of my cars in years.

 

[BoatNonce]

Budget tyres give the feeling of a hire car.... and everyone know's they are the fastest and best handling cars produced :wink:

All the hire cars I've had have been on Contis! I had an Astra GTC once on 245s, lol.

 

[mitch1503]

The clio just handles better than the swift, theres no paramormal activity s**t going on mate.

I take it you've not driven a ZC31 SS then? Absolutely great handling car with next to zero body roll

 

[alistairolsen]

Tyres do differ between cars, but tends to be a weight thing, related to sidewall stiffness. I love rainsports on small light cars, but theyre too soft on big saloon cars IMHO.

For what they cost, I rarely look past RS3 or goodyear eagle Assymetric 2/3 tbh. The 'saving' isnt worth making on some parts.

As for not being pushed, that's fine, until one day you really need to stop. That last ten feet can be really expensive.....

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

I take it you've not driven a ZC31 SS then? Absolutely great handling car with next to zero body roll

No body roll doesn't mean a car handles good. If anything, on a road car, it will have lower limits.

 

[BoatNonce]

No body roll doesn't mean a car handles good. If anything, on a road car, it will have lower limits.

Great for a track car. s**t everywhere else.

As I learnt with my 172, lol.

 

[Mr Burns]

IMO unless you're doing trackdays on budget tyres you're never really going to 'test' their capabilities unless you're emergency braking into Tesco's every Sunday.

And with that in mind, I did Oulton Park in the rain in my MX-5 on Nankang NS-20's with stock brakes and no ABS. I think the guys in the TVR's we're having less traction issues!

 

[Goodj]

And with that in mind, I did Oulton Park in the rain in my MX-5 on Nankang NS-20's with stock brakes and no ABS. I think the guys in the TVR's we're having less traction issues!

The joys of weighing less than their engine :/

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

IMO unless you're doing trackdays on budget tyres you're never really going to 'test' their capabilities unless you're emergency braking into Tesco's every Sunday.

And with that in mind, I did Oulton Park in the rain in my MX-5 on Nankang NS-20's with stock brakes and no ABS. I think the guys in the TVR's we're having less traction issues!

You can't plan emergency braking.

And you can definitely 'test' the capabilities of a s**t tyre on the road.

 

[Goodj]

And you can definitely 'test' the capabilities of a s**t tyre on the road.

Depending on the tyre whether it's much of a 'test' or not.

Given how we see cars getting totalled every day, people clearly can test their tyres, they were also testing their abilities at the same time, and both come up short.

Anyone barrel-rolled a 172 Cup today?

 

[Mr Burns]

Well after 20 years of driving I've never had to stamp on the brakes, not to a point where cheap tyres would've caused me to crash. Maybe I've just never experienced really s**t tyres.

 

[Goodj]

Well after 20 years of driving I've never had to stamp on the brakes, not to a point where cheap tyres would've caused me to crash. Maybe I've just never experienced really s**t tyres.

I've only had one truly 400% brake-pedal emergency stop.
Seemingly 50% worn Proxes can still heave an MX5 to a standstill, even when it's pulling an endo.

Isn't that right @Scrooge & @Rob

 

[Scrooge]

I've only had one truly 400% brake-pedal emergency stop.
Seemingly 50% worn Proxes can still heave an MX5 to a standstill, even when it's pulling an endo.

Isn't that right @Scrooge & @Rob :wink:

The difference is the mx5 struggled to stop as well as mine and robs, seeing the Mazda endo in my mirror was frightening lol