BCT and Triangle tyres

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magentis wrote: »

they really are awful tyres.
Having said that,more and more of the "premium" tyres are being made in asia.

Plenty of premium products from long standing brands are engineered/designed/specified outside of Asia and made in Asia. A lot to lose from crap products.

Some brands that used to mean something are now bought out or licenced out for use on substandard products from Asia. Medium term investment, usually not complete crap.


Lots of fly by night brand names designed and made in China with every conceivable corner cut, minimal testing and quality control. Nothing to lose from crap products - just set up with a new name next week.

Building a reputation for quality takes time, and you will be at a disadvantage to the "cheap and nasties" until people can distinguish you from them. A quick buck is far more tempting!



The only experience of Dy Yungs and Sail Ons I have are from tyres fitted to cars when I bought them. Always noticeably substandard but mostly liveable with in A to B non-powerful cars once you knew their limits. Could be quite fun sometimes knowing that they would allow a 1.4 to slide 4 wheels with moderately agressive driving (early nankangs, I'm told they are a bit better now). Nothing more strenuous on the tyre's traction than emergency actions any of us might have to make on the road though.

Acceleras were the only tyre I binned with plenty of thread. Car was just to powerful for them. No traction control but did have EBD which I think struggled with their dire wet grip. And the noise. Oh jebus the noise.

Ferris

Recently binned Autogrip tyres that came on the front wheels of the car when I bought it. They were appalling, understeer on low speed mini roundabouts and constant ABS interventions under moderate braking in the wet.

Went with Goodyear Eagle F1's, so glad I did, the car is transformed and hasn't slid in any way since.

goz83

Its an epidemic. I Bought a merc last month with triangle tyres all corners. They are useless in the wet and threads are good. Traction flashing at lights on take off and going around roundabouts.

I bought a second hand set of alloys a week ago. 4 cheap ass tyres. One is triangle. I refused to pay extra for the rubbish tyres, so got them for €170 instead of €250, which was a decent punt. Currently refurbing them.

BigEejit

I recently had a look at the range of tyres in a National Tyres place that is close to me. Their most premium tyre was an Avon ... the place was full of cheap ****e Goodride, Triangle, Linglong etc etc.

I put on a couple of all-season tyres on the front of the car a few weeks ago and the first 100 miles was ropey on them ... with 500 miles on them now they are great.

MarkR

Came across this recently (went looking for it actually).

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/88493/tyre-test-2014-results-by-category

I'll be looking for Dunlop next time I think.

colm_mcm

Auto express is a rag to be fair, I wouldn't trust much of what they say.

dingus12

A little pic of some BCT tyres I unknowingly was driving around on when I bought my m3, Why on gods earth someone would buy a 12k sports car and fit these ****e tyres on it is unknown to me,

These tyres are not just bad for grip

they are a death trap

the entire inside wall of both tyres has 10cm gashes/cuts around the side wall and are ready to blow out at any minute,

I'm lucky that I happened to be underneath my car changing the oil a week after I bought the car and noticed the cuts.

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Eek that is NOT the type of gash you want in an m3....

166man

I despise Chinese tyres. Got GoodYears and Uniroyals Rainsports on the 166/156. Got the mother Pirellis on the Spider and two weeks ago got the father Michelins on the 159.

Proper rubber all round is worth it.

walus

OP my advice is to drive carefully on these chinese tyres. I cured myself out of buying them some time ago when on a wet road i had an emergency braking and with literally 2 inches to spare almost rear ended the car in front of me. Never again I said then.
To put this in perspective think of it as that tyres are the only contact your car has with the road. The total contact area is probably not bigger than a sheet of A4 paper. And now imagine that the road is wet...
My recommendation for a budget tyre would be: Semperit or Barum, for mid range: Vredestein (very good value for money, use them myself: http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Vredestein/Sportrac-5.htm), Dunlop and Goodyear. No need to go to Continentals or Michelin - waste of money.
And yes I would replace those chinese tyres as soon as you can. You can try buing online if you really want to safe money and then get some local tyre place to fit them - I always do that. This way I have always tyres I want not what is being recommended by the garage or what they have only in stock. I use camskill.co.uk for tyres and bought 2 full sets off them with no problems whatsoever so can fully recommend them.

peter barrins

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