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[TheBoy]

Posted by: Lizzie Zoom Posted on: Yesterday at 14:06 To be honest if you cannot afford to put good tyres on an Omega then you should not own one!   

Bought the mig while I still had a job! 13 years Paramedic and now medical retirement because of disability... May have lost my career but don't want to lose the mig... so just looking for tips. Was never talking about comprimising safety, just staying safe whilst avoiding brand new premium tyres that are over my budget... Your comment is a bit like saying - you shouldn't own a house if you can't afford new roof tiles? nouveau riche

Sadly miss Zoom has lost her helpful streak of late, hopefully she'll be fixed soon. 

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So once again Chris I have stated my opinion, you do not like it, so you go on and make personal derogatory comments!

The title of this thread is "Budget, Remould or Part Worn tyres?"  I have made it clear that as far as I am concerned that is bad practice and with a high powered Omega, when fully loaded with passengers, fuel, etc, it requires good quality tyres (Michelin, Goodyear, Pirelli, Avon, etc) fitted as new.

If you had seen the accidents I have due to tyre failure you would not argue.  With tyres you only have a small imprint connecting with the road; when wet, icy, or even in dry conditions, you need that tyre to be the best you can afford, as with your brakes!  To fit remoulds, part worn (no history) or even many budget tyres is in my opinion not good.

I personnaly have always put my money were my mouth is, and only last year I had a brand new Wanlee (£60) tyre fitted.  Within a week I scrapped it, and had all my tyres (inherited Wanlee's) replaced with Avon's (£396) after Cem
highlighted for me the very poor record of reliability of Wanlee's.

On this site we all express personal opinions in good faith, which are either accepted or not - fair enough -  but I repeat my earlier statements that there is some on the OOF who do not like that, then engage in personal insult. This we can all do without. 

I know members who have contacted me about this very problem and they feel that they cannot contribute due to a fear of what will be said to them! Enough!

Takes 2 to argue, and on hindsight, maybe your original post could have been better worded, as I'm sure the way it came across wasn't the way you intended it to.

[TheBoy]

Here I get part worns for 1/5 of the price of new ones. I only tried them once and so far it was ok.
Would always put brand new premium but here they are extremly expensive (prices can reach as far as 180 pound per tyre for 225 16).
As for brand I had michelins and hancooks both on mig and are not satisfied with either of them.
My father has continentals on his skoda and they are quite good.
The best tyres I've tried were goodyear ones on my former Delta

In the UK, we get stunk for 'disposal tax' on the old tyre, so regularly changing tyres has to be accounted for when working out prices

Tyres have gone up recently, due to price of raw materials doubling.  This also means that tyre manufacturers aren't making so many (don't want expensively produced tyres laying around waiting to be sold), so 'difficult' sizes, such as prefacelift elites, have got expensive

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Posted by: Lizzie Zoom Posted on: Yesterday at 14:06 To be honest if you cannot afford to put good tyres on an Omega then you should not own one!   

Bought the mig while I still had a job! 13 years Paramedic and now medical retirement because of disability... May have lost my career but don't want to lose the mig... so just looking for tips. Was never talking about comprimising safety, just staying safe whilst avoiding brand new premium tyres that are over my budget... Your comment is a bit like saying - you shouldn't own a house if you can't afford new roof tiles? nouveau riche

Sadly miss Zoom has lost her helpful streak of late, hopefully she'll be fixed soon. 

All members are entitled to their opinion, and Lizzie Zoom has stated hers, and we have all stated ours.

OK, maybe her wording of not being able to afford premiums and should lose the car may have come across as a bit elitist, I'm sure that was not the intention.


All tyres have their place (except remoulds!), though I probably wouldn't pay money for part worns (due to the unknowns). That said, I'm driving a car with tyres that were already on it, who knows what damage they have sustained. Fortunately, being Michelin, they probably will be chewed up soon


But any choice of tyre is a personal thing, to say anyone is unhelpful due to replying to a post on the subject stating their opinion is probably more unproductive.

Thanks TB!   No I wasn't meaning to be elitist; I was just really stating that safety comes before pride, and if you cannot uphold safety when running any machine then perhaps anyone, including me, should think twice.   In truth any Omega costs more money to run at a safe standard - that is why we have the MOT - than my old A40. Once I was able to afford to run a bigger car, with bigger bills to meet safety standards, I did:D

[24_Valve]

Got it sorted - 4x Partworns, fitted+valve+balance. Total=£50 cash. Goodyear Eagle NCT5 - Speed Rating 94v - 7mm tread all the way... No lumps, bumps or cupping.  The way I see it is like this; when you buy a used car, even with FSH you won't know the tyre history, so it's no different