MK7 GTI vs M135i

[CraigW]

Nice one Bill, the spec looks awesome!

[JohnP]

£360 instead of £250, no biggy.  The one that matters is tyre costs.  I have a feeling I read that its £250 a corner!  Ouch.

Glad you got a great car from all of this Bill. You'd better not be lighting up the tyres too much from the lights at that price though!! 

[Bill_the_Bear]

£360 instead of £250, no biggy.  The one that matters is tyre costs.  I have a feeling I read that its £250 a corner!  Ouch.

Glad you got a great car from all of this Bill. You'd better not be lighting up the tyres too much from the lights at that price though!! 

Yeah.  Seems you can get them for £190 if you shop around but... wow, I better start saving up now!

[Raffe]

Congrats on the new purchase, have fun

[Jimble]

£360 instead of £250, no biggy.  The one that matters is tyre costs.  I have a feeling I read that its £250 a corner!  Ouch.

Glad you got a great car from all of this Bill. You'd better not be lighting up the tyres too much from the lights at that price though!! 

Yeah.  Seems you can get them for £190 if you shop around but... wow, I better start saving up now!

The first set i'd be buying would be winters! 300hp and rear drive in the snow?? Eek.... 

[Gryzor]

Lovely spec Bear, looking forward to the posing stuffed bear in the photos! 

Ouch at the price of tyres per corner though...and even with winter tyres, I echo Jimble's thoughts!

[Bill_the_Bear]

Don't need em. I live in Cambridgeshire and winters completely are unnecessary

Also my house is 200m from a duel carriageway and my work is about 300m from the same duel carriageway, so even if this were Scotland I'll never be driving on iced up roads.

[mcmaddy]

it's temperature related not just snow and ice. anything under 7 degrees and your tyres harden up.

[AAddict]

it's temperature related not just snow and ice. anything under 7 degrees and your tyres harden up.

They soon get warm and grippy if you're driving hard enough.

[mcmaddy]

erm no they don't. you can't force hardened rubber to all of a sudden be pliable again no matter how hard you drive it. your more likely to destroy the tyre first.