Bridgestone tyres

[wantmygti]

Phil, i think if you think around the £100 per corner you'll be in the right ball park. Take a look at www.mytyres.net  I've used them several times and they're both quick and relatively cheap. Just need to find a tyre monkey to fit them.

Those on 17s - I think £80-85 a corner is more like the going rate.

[wantmygti]

Just looked uo the site myself (now .co.uk) and it seems the Eagles are £95 each and the Bridgestones are £104, but bear in mind the fitting charge.

[Shrodinger's Cat]

Thanks for all the feedback on this so far, interesting to see people's thoughts.

I see that the Potenzas are classed as a summer tyre, which may explain why they are pants in the wet?

[Shrodinger's Cat]

That site looks pretty good wantmygti.  Who would you get to fit the tyres?  I presume most places would not be interested seeing as you are supplying the tyres yourself?

[wantmygti]

in the Uk we only need summer tyres - relative to the US we have no winter!

In the past i've found any tyre fitting centre other than Kwik Fit will oblige. Sometimes if you get lucky you can slip the lad doing it £20 and walk away, just go out of peak times. Kwik fit either rufuse to do it or charge loads.

www.blackcircles.com is also worth a check, and they have a fitted option whereby the garage local to you and selected by you calls when your tyres are in and arranges to fit them. All done and paid for in one transaction, but I've found the fitted price to exceed the mail order price by an unreasonable amount in the past.

[Phil mcavity]

Cheers for that ifo wantmygti, im on about 5mm on fronts with 9500 miles down so they will need doing end of the summer i guess at this rate!

[wantmygti]

thats not so bad, slicks are grippier in the dry!

[Phantom]

The 18" Eagle F1's I had fitted to the Mondeo ST last week, cost just under £250.00 fitted. That was from a local place who I have always gone to. The fitter actually commented that (obviously with a different speed rating) they are the same section and size as a 911 - hence the cost

[ReDBull]

I'd not bother with the conti's there OK but for the same money you can get better. Goodyear eagle F1's or Michelin pilots will be what I'll go for next time. Been quoted fitted £128 for F1's and £162 for pilots but they are supposed to be the real deal. If you want grip and don't care about tyre wear go for Yokohama AVS sports they didn't last long but what grip!