Anyone heard of these tyres?

[Phil mcavity]

Had service done on the car today and they fitted 2 new tyres to her, the tyre make ive never heard of..... Hankook,Vectus sport 18', Z rated, cost me fitted £147 each one, got them to put them to the rears and move the Bridgestones to the front to wear them down quicker. T.T's gonna castrate me i know!! an help with these tyre history would be helpfull. ta

[Creepy Coupe]

Had service done on the car today and they fitted 2 new tyres to her, the tyre make ive never heard of..... Hankook,Vectus sport 18', Z rated, cost me fitted £147 each one, got them to put them to the rears and move the Bridgestones to the front to wear them down quicker. T.T's gonna castrate me i know!! an help with these tyre history would be helpfull. ta

Phil I had new Hankook's on my TT when i fitted 18's, they were good all round tyre IMO, I only clocked up 10K on them before selling the car, so I can't comment on wear rates. but for the money £100 each they were ok, I think £147 is a bit steep though.

[Creepy Coupe]

Don't mention it.

[Cass]

Some info here;

http://www.ctyres.co.uk/tyres/hankook.php

Personally, I would have insisted on another couple of Bridgestones or replacing them with a well known brand such as Michelin, Pirelli, Dunlop, etc

Price does seem very steep - sure you could have done much better at a specialist tyre fitter.

You're right, TT ain't gonna be happy

Cass

[Snoopy]

Hankook is a well known brand too has been going alot of years. I have used them for about 10 years (not the same tyre) on the mk1 GTI due to them on that car out gripping and giving better steering feel than the pirrelli's, toyo, Dunlops, michelin and many others i had tried.

[TASH1]

Mytyres has them, seem to get a good write up.

http://www.mytyres.co.uk/start.html

[Phil mcavity]

Sounds like a good tyre after all, but shocked into the price VW have charged me!!!

[wantmygti]

Why did you get them from VW? If it were me i'd of stuck to a better brand for a chepaer price.

[TASH1]

Phil I am sorry but didn't want to mention the price but maybe you have a cause to complain.

[Hurdy]

Are you sure about the specification of the tyre?

The nearest thing I can find are these:-

http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/details.pl?ID=froogle&typ=D38319&Country=UK

Edit:- oops if you go to their home page and look through there are some 18" ones