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Offline steerf

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Disaster with the Golf, new tyre needed
« on: 29 November 2007, 13:39 »
Horrors of horrors ive kurbed one of my 18" wheels on my Golf, luckily for me it was going to be replaced as I picked it up from the dealers with a mark on it, apparently there's been a bad batch of wheels?
The bad thing is there is a cut in the side wall of the tyre, does anyone have an idea of the cost of a new Continental 225/40 18" tyre? I would guess at around £100-£150 price mark.

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Re: Disaster with the Golf, new tyre needed
« Reply #2 on: 29 November 2007, 15:30 »
must be a bad cut to require a new tyre! how hard did you hit the kerb!? My Missis kerbed a wheel on my old R quite badly, really scrubbed the rim and had a chunk of rubber, I never replaced the tyre and never had any issues with it...

regarding contis, I need two new fronts at the mo and best I've found fitted is £140 each. Kwik-fit are doing a special on Pirelli (P-somethings!?), £108 IIRC, online prices are much better but I can't fit 'em myself!
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Re: Disaster with the Golf, new tyre needed
« Reply #3 on: 29 November 2007, 17:48 »
The tyre is probably OK as its not loosing air but, it could fail.
All this because some daft bugger can't drive their Mondeo and cut corners at junctions.

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Re: Disaster with the Golf, new tyre needed
« Reply #4 on: 01 December 2007, 15:22 »
Try blackcircles.com - usually very competitve and deliver tyres to a network of approved fitters nearest to where you live
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Re: Disaster with the Golf, new tyre needed
« Reply #5 on: 01 December 2007, 16:32 »
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