I'd like to think that even the cheapest tyre is going to perform fairly good in the dry, I mean you wouldn't put a cheaper tyre under maximum cornering load on a public road even in perfect conditions anyway - would you?Tallboy wrote:They are fine if you drive appropietly to the conditions, you'll hear horror stories of budget rubber being awful but in my experience they are fine, just my 2pOllieT wrote:Ah yes, I've seen the Nangkang's for sale elsewhere, wasn't too impressed at first glance. Will they keep me alive until I can buy a set of better sized alloys? Or is there somewhere I can buy some quality rubber, as I rather like the stock look..Gazza_DJ wrote:Quality choice from Black Circles varies, will probably be the Nankang or Nexen depending on stock availability.
As for whizz-bang top shelf tyres, I still would take road conditions as the main indicator or what I could expect from them. If the road's wet, you have to be sensible. If the road's wet and you are on cheap and nasties…. Maybe pull over and have a rest. Or just baby the thing home.
I remember my first car's tyres vividly, I bought the car from my father and he thought he was doing me a favour by putting a brand new set of tyres on for me. My god! Coming down a mountain range (where I worked) in the rain was terrifying, even at very low speeds the tyres just slid.
To call them tyres would be laughable, they were just round pieces of black plastic. They came off the car as soon as I could afford decent rubber.