just been to costco & michelin pilot sport 3 for my motor octavia vrs

 

225/40/18  £107 fitted 

Not bad at all

That is good..great tyre too.

I paid around £123.00 a corner fitted/balanced and thoroughly washed.

I put a set of MP3's on mine in November '12 (swapped Front to Rear in March '14) still plenty of grip after covering almost 25k - very pleased

had two fitted today 

 

minor moan about costco its their policy to rotate the front tyres to the back could not be bothered to argue with the man as for that price.

 

i know there have been various threads about where the most rubber should be when getting new tyres . im a new tyres on the front guy but there is plenty of tread on the ones that are on the front now so i will leave them where they are

Technically new tyres should always be fitted to the rear.. Wether it's a front/rear or four wheel drive. But at the end of the day it's up to the customer, you're paying the money!

Just got my car back from the dealers following a AC issue (re-gas required) only to be told that the rears have 4mm both sides & the fronts have 5.6mm - not bad considering I don't drive like Miss Daisy !!

Technically new tyres should always be fitted to the rear.. Wether it's a front/rear or four wheel drive. But at the end of the day it's up to the customer, you're paying the money!

 

I've never really understood this logic.....ok maybe you'd want new tyres on the rear so that the front looses grip before the rear, but who drives their car that close to the limit? For me, the front tyres do all the stopping when you stomp on the brake, so that's where I want my new tyres. 

The logic is probably to avoid having nearly new tyres left on the rear which end up deteriorating/perishing before the tread wears out

Move them to the front on each tyre change to keep them rotated.

Your average punter never rotates his tyres between tyre changes so this ensures optimum tyre use and avoids having tyres with perished rubber but loads of tread.

Edited 21 July, 201411 yr by Defenderben

Btw, I fit my new tyres to the front purely because of how I drive. At the end of the day it's up to the punter, but I can see the industries reasons for saying what they do.

I had these tyres on, wear very well road noise no problem, no problem in general 2 year 20,000 miles. But one piece of advice dont go out in the Snow. I know they are not Winter tyres, but my car would not move, every other vehicle gone me still there, thats not 5 yard from my drive. Only moving to a safe spot or that was the idea.

Very good price for Costco!

Last time I looked in mine, the prices had gone slightly up. He also said they weren't going to do the % off promos from now on either?

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when i got mine i was told prices had gone down as more were being sold . so prices were staying down so £107 should be staying for a while

I am amazed at the mileage peeps seem to be getting out of their tyres. Mine has the original Conti's from new and the car has covered just 12,000. I switched the fronts for backs a couple of thou ago and reckon I only have three or four k left until the lot need changing. I don't drive like a nutter and the car runs as straight as a Die. Pressures are always kept correct.

 

I would expect this on the V6 but not the 2L petrol, even if it is fairly quick.

I've never really understood this logic.....ok maybe you'd want new tyres on the rear so that the front looses grip before the rear, but who drives their car that close to the limit? For me, the front tyres do all the stopping when you stomp on the brake, so that's where I want my new tyres. 

 

you may not drive on the limit but occasionally the limit comes up to meet you, whether its water, snow, ice, diesel or maybe just wet leaves. I've spun a car three or four times in my life by accident: once, on M+S tyres with fewer studs on the rear (small mistake), once with directional tyres mounted backwards on the rear (big mistake), once with four different tyres on the car (not my mistake but pretty dumb), and once, well, I don't know what the hell happened, I just lost it on a very familiar corner (my mistake). As such, and given the experience of three decades, I'd always put the better tyres on the rear but ideally, I wouldn't let them wear unevenly as its a pain once you have two different sets of tread...  

Spinning a car four times by accident in your driving career perhaps indicates you have a very 'spirited' driving style to say the least.....unless they were all rear wheel drive V8 models without traction control....or perhaps you drive a lot in the snow.  

 

I drive reasonably fast and push the limits of grip on occasion, and in 20 years I have never come close to spinning a road car in the wet or dry....they all just want to under steer. I have however had to carry out numerous emergency stops to avoid people who pulled out in front of me or walk out into a road in front of me, and just last month I had to stop rapidly to avoid a head on collision with a fool in a van, trying to overtake coming up to the crest of the hill that I was driving on. In these situations the extra few yards of reduced stopping distance newer tyres on the front give you could literally be the difference between life and death.