caprizetec170

Just purchased a Fiesta st150 as a late Christmas present for me
but last owner has fitted a mix of cheap nasty plastic shite
So can anyone recommend a good road tyre in 205/40/17

stevieturbo

No idea what you have available locally. But past 3-4 years I've been using Mohawk's from Modern Tyres on my van, 205/50x16, chinese stuff as you'd expect.

But I have to say they are very good and last well too. Far better than Federal or Hankook I had before and they're cheaper too. They're £60ea in that size.

studabear

http://www.kwik-fit.com/tyre-search.asp

Pirelli just over your budget

stevieturbo

Oponeo would be far cheaper to buy from if buying online.

But I've had big name tyres in the past that were crap, some are good. Problem is some of them have so many different types it's impossible to know which is decent or not.

studabear

Very true, I look after a fiesta ST of a mates, he has always ran it on the pirelli P zero's as I'm pretty sure that it had them on when he bought it new.

stevieturbo

If you can stick with the exact same OEM tyre fitted, they're usually fairly good.

caprizetec170

Seem to be good deals on there alright
Anyone got any experience of Falken ZE's or Fulda SportControls

obrutsr09

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m54b0s13p0...0_17_205_40R17

http://www.blackcircles.com/order/tyres/search

STAFFY OWNER

Try this company:

http://www.tyretraders.com/tyres_home.html

I've just used them for 4 tyres for my FRS and the service was excellent, ordered late Sunday night delivered 8.00am Wednesday morning.

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

O/H has 4x Uniroyal Rainsport 2 on her ST150 and the drive / grip is excellent. No reason to think the Rainsport 3 at £66.90 from Camskill won't be as good.

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m54b0s13p1..._Noise%3A_72dB

STeve

iTrader: (11)

depends on how the car will be driven, but rainsports gets my vote

CrOwSoN15

205 40 17 is what I've just gone for on the T5, I managed to find Parada Spec 2's for just under £70 a pop.

CrOwSoN15

Oh and by the way, it's worth checking out EARS as they're usually pretty good on prices.

stevieturbo

Problem you'll find with most of those companies or online sellers. If you arent mainland UK, postage prices are just silly.

And I suspect for Southern Ireland, the case will be even more silly.

EARS have an outlet around Cork, but again knowing price structures, they'd be expensive buying locally.

Oponeo I presume offers free postage to Ireland as well as rest of UK.

Camskill's postage to Northern Ireland is usually ok, no idea about down South.

EARS postage to Northern Ireland was just ok, still adds quite a bit to the overall price.

CrOwSoN15

Good shout actually I hadn't noticed where he was located, it'll certainly bump the price up.

Fil

Allways been a fan of AVON , falken and kumho

currently got some avon ZZ5s on the rear of the BM, and some kumho ecsta LE on the front ( well thats a lie, as its on some nankang SV2 winter tyres and rims at the moment )

But the above is well differnt to a fiesta,

the misses has a fusion tho, which came with goodyears on, that didnt seem all that good, and now for around half the price it now has falkens fitted which are loads better in the wet! ( ill look at the models later )

caprizetec170

yep camskill charge £38 a set to deliver to ireland
Oponeo are free. never thought of EARs only thought they did kumho rally tyres and they aint cheap for stuff

think i'll chance rainsports 3

gingeRS

Make sure you have a local fitter that will do you a deal on fitting, many places charge up to £25 to fit a tyre, multiply that by 4 and might wipe out any saving you get from camskill or other mail order places, costco do competing fitted tyres and worthy calling in at a local Kwik fit place and speaking to the manager about deals, in this day and age they do try and stay competitive with online orders but may not advertise them as much

stevieturbo

£25 for one tyre ? Holy fuck, I doubt even Southern Ireland is that bad.

£20 for 4 tyres here !

studabear

A lot of big firms won't normally fit peoples own supplied tyres. The phrase "Would you take your own spuds to the chip shop" springs to mind.

stevieturbo

And the local chip shop arent robbing bastards who charge too much might be the answer back

gingeRS

Yup £24 at the local tyre place, even my garage who I trust implicitly come in around £18 per tyre, to be honest much less than that and it ain't worth doing, great if you can get 4 done for £20 but there making a loss at that whatever way you look at it so that must be mates rates and cash only

stevieturbo

No mates rates at all, a couple of local places only charge that

I wouldnt say they make a loss. £20 for 20 minutes work isnt exactly that bad. If I was earning £1 a minute I'd be happy enough

caprizetec170

Feck thats step most local places will fit and balance for 10euro once ya bring off old tyres

JunglistJames

you have probably got some by now, but for the budget i'd say either Kumho KU39, Falken ZIEX ZE914 or Uniroyal Rainsport 2/3

Forget the pirellis they were only ever any good on a hot summers day, and were supposedly good in the wet but they really are not, a lot of st owners ditched those long ago and yeah they they were fittd to the cars out the factory

RealityJames

Last tyres I had fitted to my focus (225x40 18") were infinity (bought via asdatyes.co.uk) have had them on for a few thousand miles and are very good in terms of grip and lasting well, less that £50 a tyre fitting etc all inclusive

strada84

Michelin Pilot Sport PS3

I just bought myself a set in that size.

mjonathan24

iTrader: (1)

I fitted some Toyo proxies on my st150. They are terrible. No grip whatsoever.
I think rainsports would be a good call, or stick with the standard Pirelli.

timster

Was that from tyreleader? Did it include vat if so?

strada84

I bought mine from my supplier (trade), but I would sell them out at less than £80 each

Mad_Mat

I,ve always liked T1-R's as a good value sporty tyre.
Going to try some Kumho KU39 next as these seem to get good reports and are fairly budget.

Obviously money no object it would be AD08r but twice the price.

-Sean-

Michelin Pilot Sport 3's

I run them on the ST180, brilliant tyres.

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/car-tyre...zr17-84w-63970

blueovalman

My personal opinion is p-zeroes are shocking, my current preferred tyres are uniroyal rainsport 2/3 got them on both my car's including an Mr200 fez st.