Tyres - premium brands? Are they worth the money?

[pgarner]

aye let me know how they turn out the bridgestones re 040's are costing me £107 a corner, best price i could get on the internet for local fitting was £104 but would have to travel a 20mile twisty back road to get to the garage so wasnt worth the hassle. best one was the other tyre garage in lockerbie said that they were no longer made and had been replaced by the 050's and they wanted £157 each for them not including valves balancing and disposal of the old ones got told where to go for that.

only reason i went with the bridgestones was i got the alloys off a woman that works with the wife her partner just bought a new TT (old shape but next to no millage on it had been bought by the garage) and didnt like the alloys. as it happened one alloy already had a tyre on it the others had been used on new alloys and rather than have 2 different sets of tyres just decided to go for the same all round.

[HDi fun]

Agreed, same tyre pattern and compound at all four corners is a good approach. ABS, brake dist and traction control stability things can all get confused by different rolling diameters, friction co-efficients etc. Maybe I should get four punctures simultaneously - that'll help.