Yearly BMW tyre whinge

Front tyre $230

Can do all the tyres on my car for that price

Ok, had a good look today and still cant find those embedded diamonds
.....................

 

I'm sure I was paying that for front tyres a decade ago. Dunno that
I'd want $60 tyres on my car either . . .

 

Frig, last set I bought fo a car was $1450.

Theo

 

Pfft! You were had, my friend! Mine cost $18 and it's 1.9" wide! ;-)


BTH

 

Touche!


BTH
(And stay out of alt.dumpster!)

 

You only buy one tyre a year for your BMW?

I tend to average one a month.

Last set of tyres for a BMW lasted me a total of 6 days.

Boxer

 

Buy a lathe and make your own tyres out of tree stumps. They'll
probably outlast the bike.

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

well havent put a new set of tyres on my last three cars as I havent kept
them that long but I see them on Bob Jane for $59

hopefully my new car I will keep longer

 

Nah, just one whinge a year

well when you get older your sex drive does drop

well I want 10,000 k's from mine so have gone from Sports to Road

 

Well people put retreads on that are a lot cheaper then that

Anyway thats the good thing about a small car.................... and I have
nearly;y 30,000 k's on these and they still look good

 

Not this people!

Jodz has got a small car, a Ford Fiesta.

The tyres for that are roughly $100 each (and that's not going for
anything special).

Even no brand tyres from K-Mart for her small car are $70 each...


G-S

 

Since I have no suitably-sized rims to fit them to, I expect them to
last for many, many years.


BTH

 

Shortly after I bought my truck (5 years ago! time flies, eh?) I
replaced the particularly horrid 215/60R15 car tyres that were fitted
to it with four much more sensible 195/70R15 light truck tyres, for
about $120 each.

When the rears wore down I kept the best of them to use as the spare,
moved the fronts to the rear, and bought 2 new front tyres. Those
rear tyres have just about worn out now, having done about 75,000km on
the front and 31,000km on the rear. I think I can safely say that it
was $240 well spent.


BTH

 

Nah, you can have that one. They're weird!


BTH

 

Have a look at the Bob Jane catalogue

 

I did... the tyres for Jodz car that I'd choose were $99.

G-S

 

Instead of choosing to put a $230 tyre on the front, why don't you
choose a much cheaper tyre?

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

Touche

 

that was the cheap one

 

did you not post

"I'm sure I was paying that for front tyres a decade ago. Dunno that
I'd want $60 tyres on my car either . . ."