Tigar tyres - any good or complete crap?

[Dandle]

Originally Posted by Nunchukhamster

I know nothing about their quality, but they are actually Serbian, and one of the major shareholders in the firm is Michelin.

That doesnt suprise me at all. Continental tyres actually own several different tyre companies inc. Barum and Uniroyal. Its to try and capture different parts of the market with the premium brand still being Conti.

[Nunchukhamster]

Originally Posted by Dandle

That doesnt suprise me at all. Continental tyres actually own several different tyre companies inc. Barum and Uniroyal. Its to try and capture different parts of the market with the premium brand still being Conti.

Indeed. The one thing that still surprises me is how few people know about Vredestein tyres which are most definitely not a budget brand but still pretty rare in the UK.

[tt82]

Originally Posted by Nunchukhamster

Indeed. The one thing that still surprises me is how few people know about Vredestein tyres which are most definitely not a budget brand but still pretty rare in the UK.

Thinking of gettin a set of them next, my dads had them on his avensis and he rates them quite highly.

[Nunchukhamster]

Originally Posted by tt82

Thinking of gettin a set of them next, my dads had them on his avensis and he rates them quite highly.

I first had some a couple of years ago when I put them on my wifes Ford Probe (now sold before abuse starts), since then they are the only tyres I've bought for our Passat and C70. They've handled everything I've thrown at them so far (ranging from regular day to day use to autobahn bashing to laps at the Nurburgring) and have been very good.

[keithyboy]

By coincidence I bought a spare wheel for my Alfa which has a Tigar somethingorother on it which I threw on the left front earlier. It's peeing down out there and it had a lot more bite than the (admittedly old but not massively worn) Mich which was on there before.

[Nocomplaints1977]

Originally Posted by Nunchukhamster

Indeed. The one thing that still surprises me is how few people know about Vredestein tyres which are most definitely not a budget brand but still pretty rare in the UK.

Had two sets and were good wet or dry plus far quieter then Michelins that were on before.
Running the new Avon ZV's (think its ZV5 now) and found them good wet or dry, fairly quiet too plus the whole set was £300 .
Budget tyres just = spin spin spin in most gears for me in the wet, useless.

Gaz

[tt82]

Originally Posted by keithyboy

By coincidence I bought a spare wheel for my Alfa which has a Tigar somethingorother on it which I threw on the left front earlier. It's peeing down out there and it had a lot more bite than the (admittedly old but not massively worn) Mich which was on there before.

read the section about the renault 80mph space saver, i believe age as well as wear can massively deteriate a tyres performance.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/au...vers_safe.html

[S40_Paul]

Originally Posted by tt82

tigar primas

http://www.reifendirekt.de/review/11...entestcom.html

s40__paul, i have found Toyos to be great in everything apart from snow, when we had a bad spell before christmas i spent most of the time sat still with my wheels spinning, seems to be a popular opinion as well

http://www.reifendirekt.de/review/11...entestcom.html

Well I'll take it they must be due to reading that but I must be honest they handled alot better than my older tyre's so to me they were brilliant!...hate to think ow I'd been without Toyo's if the Toyo's are regarded as bad in snow!!!

Either way I'll be fitting Toyo's all round once I can afford to.

[tt82]

Originally Posted by S40_Paul

Well I'll take it they must be due to reading that but I must be honest they handled alot better than my older tyre's so to me they were brilliant!...hate to think ow I'd been without Toyo's if the Toyo's are regarded as bad in snow!!!

Either way I'll be fitting Toyo's all round once I can afford to.

wont be needing new tyres for a while but if i did, i think i wouldnt go for toyo's. the price seems to have shot up by about £20 a tyre since i bought mine. thats putting them in the same price range as dunlops, pirellis and contis.

[t4 b4192]

hi to all,i thought i would put views and advice forward,my opinion on cheap tyres is that they are false economy and like many others have said on here,a good tyre can save your life and a bad one can end it in extreme cases,to cut a long story short i had a very close shave quite a few years ago with a set of cheap tyres,in less than 10k the front ones were very badly worn and after a very big scare i swapped them for continentals and it totally transformed the car and restored my confidence,anyway i'm in the market for a pair of tyres myself and came accross camskill performance,who amongst other thing sell tyres,my size 205/50/16 87w here are a few prices,falken fk 452 £44.70,avon zv5 £58.80,toyo proxes t1r £58.82,goodyear eagle f1 gsd3 £68.50 to name but a few,i fancy the avon zv5 myself as found the zz3 a decent tyre previously,hope this is of some help