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Have you tried looking on the Goodyear site?Also keen to know this?
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Have you tried looking on the Goodyear site?Also keen to know this?
Upto you - can only supply the information. The same information the Insurance companies will go by in the event of a claim. As you know, they will check everything to avoid paying out in the event of a claim, so be prepared. All the tyre companies give the same advice including major car associations such as the AA & RAC.
Its your choice in the end.
Two Tyre shops round here, one national and one local will sell you the tyres but won’t fit them ie: 2 new tyres on front axle.Yes some insurers sometimes try it on to avoid paying claims. But I'd be very surprised, in the UK, if there could be realistic grounds to reject a claim because you'd 'mixed tyres' between axles provided that the sizes, speed and load ratings were within the vehicle manufacturer's spec and of course each tyre was in a legal condition.
Just because the car manufacturer recommends something - like you only use OEM VW brake fluid in your VW - isn't an insurance matter, even if it was actually quite good advice, unless your deviation from the recommendation makes the vehicle non-roadworthy in some way that contributes to the accident in question.
Unless someone has specific case intel that says different.
(And to be 100% clear here, I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea to mix tyres, only questioning whether it can invalidate your insurance).
Two Tyre shops round here, one national and one local will sell you the tyres but won’t fit them ie: 2 new tyres on front axle.
At least the customer that takes their advice has a chance of coming back and of course they probably lose those customers who decide to go to Dodgy Davies.My local tyre place has no such scruples (Diamond Dave's Ditchfinders - North Korean Imports & Part-Worns Our Speciality).
But there's a bit of serious business logic at play here too. Putting the part-worn tyre onto the front (on a FWD car) means it will wear out much quicker than if it's left on the back. So a quicker second sale (/cashflow) for that particular tyre shop.
Of course I'm not saying that's why they do it - but it must be lovely when the engineering advice and commercial logic come together...
Think so. Also because, these days, we and our Calis have systems like ESP, that will act and correct before an average driver like most of us, driving normally, will have noticed he or she needed the support.To be honest I think a lot of stuff about tyres is only going to be noticeable to an extremely skilled driver driving on the limit on a racetrack (yes, we Cali drivers all know we're above-average drivers - just like 95% of the rest of the population ). In normal driving I'd challenge most of us to know what tyres we had fitted, in a blind test.
I have run Cargo Vector 2 M+S 215/60R17C 109/107T on our 2007 4Motion for about 3 years - including a round trip to the far end of Greece - where we amost got stuck in a muddy field when they were pretty much new. They are OK, but not great in either mud or snow (the M+S of the tyre name) to be honest. On the plus side, they have a "snow rating" so are legal to go over continental cols in the winter, but having done that, I think I'd pack chains to go with these for the next trip.Hi Everyone
Has anyone gone from standard factory fit 17" summer tyres to fitting goodyear vector cargo all-weather M+S tyres at all?
Did you notice any road noise or MPG differences?
I understand the vector cargos are the likely tyre that I would get if I order all-weather tyres on my new Cali and just want to choose them eyes-wide-open, if we do order them.
Thanks
Its OK to have winters on front and summer on rear - i bought a spare set so i could have set of winters / summers, but am getting there gradually. The 'problem' is the tyres last for ages and take 1000s of miles to wear out - will put my winters on the front in next few months, but reckon i am about 12 months away from buying the next two.+1, thats my dilemma - interested in peoples responses to this one....
Can I ask those that have switched from the factory fitted tyres to Goodyears or Nokians, did you do this pretty much straightway as a matter of course because they are much better tyres, or did you wait until the factory fitted tyres had reached the end of their lives?
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