I've had an annoying vibration at 48mph which I've always put down to improper balancing on one of the fronts...anyway..finally got to KwikFit this morning to get them re-balanced...

The resulting discovery was that the inner walls of ALL the tyres (rears as well) had bulging zones due to separation. (The outer walls look fine BTW)

Now waiting for a set of Toyo's to be delivered with an advisery not to drive it anywhere!

My tyres are Delinte DL4000's so anyone else using these please check them asap!! RRS gone
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Budget tyres are false economy in my opinion.

I too had budget tyres (they came with the wheels) still had plenty of tread on them but i still had them changed for Hankook Ventus after reading reviews, apparently the are an excellent tyre in all conditions.

I have heard of a few horror stories involving budgets, total failures at speed etc, sometimes its just not worth saving a few quid.

Yeah I'm inclined to agree, these were going to get replaced with Toyo's when they were worn out anyway...( I inherited them with the 1st set of alloys). So it's just brought that day forward by a few months.... RRS gone
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Sounds like it's perhaps an issue with the reinforcement of the tyre walls, which is required for the weight of the car. Maybe the cheaper tyres are not as well reinforced.

As an aside, I was also considering the Hankook Ventus but, I notice that they are not rated at the same speed rating as the stated requirement for the RRS. Anyone that has them asked their insurers if this is ok? I know mine allowed a lower rating for Winter tyres but not so sure about in the summer. 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
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Put it like this.......... I came across a size of tire for my RRS made in China called 'Golden Happiness' tires....try as I might I couldn't find them advertised in any of the motoring journals.

Ask yourself would you fit these or Yokohama's? I know where my money's going for a new set of rubber. Ra-Ro Sport Super Dooper Charged.
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Streaky wrote:

Put it like this.......... I came across a size of tire for my RRS made in China called 'Golden Happiness' tires....try as I might I couldn't find them advertised in any of the motoring journals.

Ask yourself would you fit these or Yokohama's? I know where my money's going for a new set of rubber.

April 1st .... no.......
Tyre spelling .........hmmmmm .......no

Not sure I'd be looking in China for new tyres in the first place - no doubt much is produced there but Golden Happiness should be on a menu at best - not a tyre wall

My job takes me to China quite alot and I just couldn't ignore them. You don't think I went to China specificlly to buy tires do you

I've also seen tires there call 'Double Happiness'.......  Ra-Ro Sport Super Dooper Charged.
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I didn't know you'd been there looking....

Double happiness ...... what other rubber products do they produce

Endjin wrote:

Sounds like it's perhaps an issue with the reinforcement of the tyre walls, which is required for the weight of the car. Maybe the cheaper tyres are not as well reinforced.

As an aside, I was also considering the Hankook Ventus but, I notice that they are not rated at the same speed rating as the stated requirement for the RRS. Anyone that has them asked their insurers if this is ok? I know mine allowed a lower rating for Winter tyres but not so sure about in the summer.

Endjin - Interesting point and some dealers will use this excuse when trying to get out of doing warranty work as i have experienced however the speed rating of the Hankook Ventus is still way above the legal speed limit allowed in the UK so i think the "wrong speed rating" would not stand up in dispute in the same way that the scare mongers tried to claim that you will invalidate your insurance by fitting winter tyres, insurance companies en mass dismissed this as . The Hankook Ventus is an all season tyre with a M&S mark.