Is vitora and laufenn decent? Don't really drive that much and have a nana car.
What Are Some Budget Tyre Brands to Avoid?
Plusultra556 on 05/11/2024 - 23:24
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Same comments as above really. For a nana/town driver vehicle I don't think there's much difference. Your tyre choice will matter more in the extreme end of things. Sudden stopping in the wet. Hitting a pothole. Noise on our harsh chipseal open roads.
However budget is not always budget when you consider the life of a tyre. It might be cheap at purchase, but if you are not planning on selling the car anytime soon you could burn through 2 sets of them when a quality tyre would still be going strong.
Laufenn is literally older generation hankooks. Can't beat them for the price to quality. Go for these.
First, this is based on the above points regarding your usage and driving a 'nana' car around locally, rather than lots of motorway / metalled / dirt tracks / freezing cold driving.
I am no expert in tyres, but I would note that with many things (and no obvious reason tyres would be different) it is often better value to buy two (say) cheap tyres, than paying more for a 'better' tyre that is expected to last longer.
If you go expensive, it might well be expected to last longer, but if you hit a nasty pothole (even at lower speeds) you can easily trash any tyre - expensive or cheap. If you trash the cheap tyre, the loss to you is much less.
Similarly, if you get a puncture / damage, especially in the tyre wall, as often these are not repairable.
You might not expect to sell the car, but things can change - having expensive tyres often won't lift the price you can get if on-selling.
Simple numerical example:
4 x $100 tyres that last two years = $400 investment over two years = $200 pa.
4 x $200 tyres that last four years = $800 investment over four years = $200 pa.
So which is better?
In the first example, you continuously have $400 invested costing you an additional, say, 5% pa in lost investment returns (interest if you like) = $20 pa.
In the second example, you continuously have $800 invested costing you an additional, say, 5% pa in lost investment returns (interest if you like) = $40 pa.
So the true cost (using all the above figures) is greater in the second scenario.
If a tyre is 'lost' to a pothole / puncture (and cannot be repaired) then the second scenario gets even more expensive.
Obviously I chose figures to make the maths easy and illustrate. If you can find tyres that cost twice as much, but last ten times as long, that could be a much lower expected cost over time.
HTH,
Alan.
I went with a brand called Farroad myself
I think on the budget end of the scale, particularly if you don't do much driving, they are all very similar and you won't notice much difference. That's been my experience anyway. If you do a lot of highway driving, live on a dirt road, live in the cold south then maybe it's a slightly different story.
Just keep your tyre pressures up, optionally get the tyres rotated every, I dunno, 10-15,000km or so to even the wear out across the tyres, and don't bother with the upsells of nitrogen etc.