pinkpanther

Found another!

It's all about Shaun the Sheep at Clumber Park 🙂

Tonight's sunset ..........

Rather ominously I thought the steam from the power station resembled a Mushroom cloud 😬☢️

A few from Attenborough nature reserve earlier today............

The latter 👍

With the current promotion it will be £143.18 / tyre (fitted) from Costco

Similar price to Asda tyres, although ATS more costly than BlackCircles

Never used BlackCircles or ATS - will check prices 👍

Very grateful for all the input - Briskoda is an excellent resource 👍

I recall a Citroën ZX I owned many years ago had an engineered in tendency to lift off oversteer. A very underrated car👍

My local independent seems able to match / beat pretty much all suppliers, although not generally Costco for Michelin. Given the sidewall damage I wasn't prepared to risk a motorway journey to Costco, hence the locally supplied and fitted tyres for the front. I may well now use the current Costco offer (-£40) to source 2 more Cross Climate for the rear 👍

Apologies - I obscured the reg plate. The car is a 23 plate, factory order, which I collected 6 months ago. Tyres were rotated at 10k miles.

Of course I suspect I would only see an issue with front / rear grip imbalance in extremis - I very much enjoyed an off-road driving course some years ago where I learned to steer the car on the throttle. I also had loads of fun in a (closed and snow covered) local supermarket car park with a RWD 3.0 V6 Lexus learning how to handle the car in poor conditions.

Costco have a policy of only fitting new tyres to the rear axle.

Car is 6 months old (12k miles). OEM tyres had date codes of 39:22. 4-5 mm tread remains and all seem to be wearing evenly, although the car required a new steering rack (under warranty) and underwent tracking adjustment thereafter. Incidentally Asda tyres were a bit dearer than my local independent for Cross Climates

The OEM Bridgestone tyres were OK - hadn't noticed they were especially poor in the cold / wet in the 6 months /12k miles since we collected it (23 plate).

Headed out with a Tripod this evening- absolutely freezing 🥶

Now debating whether to change change the rear tyres to match the fronts 🤔 The rears are the original Bridgestones (on the front axle for 11k miles, but recently rotated to the rear). 4-5mm tread remains, but unmatched tyres triggers my OCD tendencies and I noticed the Michelins are considerably quieter than the OEM Bridgestones. First World decisions!!

Very clear sky tonight .. ......

Side wall is damaged - presumably pothole damage😠 A replacement Bridgestone Turanza is £186, so going for 2 Michelin Cross Climates (just over £150 each). My excellent local tyre place effectively price matched Costco 👌 Crazy tyre size on the SE-L Karoq!

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Final evening of the light show at Rufford Park this evening.......

Glorious earlier today......

My Bike carrier.......