rob oneill

Hi.
Can anyone reccomend a good set of budget tyres for my 93WRX, it has MY01 17" alloys on it. only 2 of them are in need of changing realy, but I think I should do all 4 at once, worried about wrecking the drive train. Is this sensible, or OTT.
Thanks in advance, Rob.

RON

Rob,
In my experience, you can either have your cake, or, eat it, not both.
Saying that, I haven't tried that many tyres, so there might be a way.

mega_stream

If there's one thing you don't want its low quality tyres...
On a car that can do over 120mph you'll want rated tyres, and I've never seen rated tyres on a Metro

rob oneill

OK, good point. Cheers.

Boost II

iTrader: (1)

The worry about changing 2 tyres wrecking drive train it OTT. More likely to wreck the whole car in a ditch if you have 2 decent tyres and 2 cheapo tyres. To avoid this cooncern in the future you can swap front and back over just before you think they are about half worn. My opinion only of course.

IanA

Don't go cheap on tyres, sell your wife/children/dogs/computer if you have to but don't put cheap tyres on (or RE010s, which aren't cheap and don't grip in the wet)

rob oneill

Thanks for the advice.
Ive been offered some goodyear eagle F1s at trade price from a mate, I imagine these are top quality, what do you think of them, good?
Thanks, Rob.

GEJL

F1s are pretty good (GS-D2s, I'm talking about, with the V-shaped tread). I've got them on mine; much better in the wet than RE010s.

FYI, I got 205/50 16s for less than £70 each (though that was six months ago), so use that for a price comparison.

Boost II

iTrader: (1)

Any chance of mentioning where that was and whether it included fitting/valves/balancing etc as it seems a lot lower than most places I've seen.

dela

I got a set of 4 16" F1s from Wembley Tyres, just over £300 about a year ago.

dela

GEJL

Boost II - was from Bracknell Tyre & Battery, 01344 411323. Was fully inclusive of vat, valves, fitting...

Whether they can do the same price now, I don't know.