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(30-08-2011 11:52am)griff Wrote:  What is the best price for Pirelli Ice & Snow tyres in your opinion. mytyres are quoting £245 ex fitting. (each!)

Just wondering ......... if we bulk ordered some as a group what price we could get.

When I had an M Class I bought tyres from the USA. It was cheaper to buy 4 tyres and have them shipped to the UK than buy 1 tyre here ..... now that was a special offer but even so I think the UK is one of the more expensive places to buy tyres.
When the £ - Euro rate was I bit more sensible Germany was a good place to get performance tyres at sensible prices.

On my build sheet for Dec it says pirellis.

On mine he order sheet says Michelin. Talking with my sales agent I think that all 18's are Pirelli, 19's are Conti and definately all 20's are Michelin. I have Conti on my last FL2 and they wore very well, but those on my SLK gave up the ghost at 14K (almost bald) and much to the dismay of my local German Merc garage insisted onMichelins as replacements (ironically Made in Germany) which so far have done 5k with only about 1mm of wear.

Ref winter tyres, I bought a set of Cooper winter tyres for my M Class (then transferred them to my FL2). They are only S rated (160 kph) but then grip is awesome and they look proper chunky. My point being there are some really good value M + S tyres out there that don't necessarily look good but do the business in the winter. I always wonder why people fit W or Z rated winter tyres as by implication the weather will probably not permit going half the speed of normal dry conditions. That said your price for 4 seems alright.

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Could there be an insurance reason why people fit higher speed rated tyres? After all, if you encounter completely snow free roads during a journey you aren't going to want to sit at 160km/h if your car is capable of 300km/hr and you are on suitable roads for that speed?

(30-08-2011 02:11pm)BFGEvoqueMan Wrote:  On mine he order sheet says Michelin. Talking with my sales agent I think that all 18's are Pirelli, 19's are Conti and definately all 20's are Michelin. I have Conti on my last FL2 and they wore very well, but those on my SLK gave up the ghost at 14K (almost bald) and much to the dismay of my local German Merc garage insisted onMichelins as replacements (ironically Made in Germany) which so far have done 5k with only about 1mm of wear.

Ref winter tyres, I bought a set of Cooper winter tyres for my M Class (then transferred them to my FL2). They are only S rated (160 kph) but then grip is awesome and they look proper chunky. My point being there are some really good value M + S tyres out there that don't necessarily look good but do the business in the winter. I always wonder why people fit W or Z rated winter tyres as by implication the weather will probably not permit going half the speed of normal dry conditions. That said your price for 4 seems alright.

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Continentals on my FL2 wore out in 23k miles easy use and aquaplained badly after 12k miles. Prevous FL had michelins still tread left at 69k when I sold it.

Griff I was quoted almost the same price but included fitting, valves and balancing by my local Budget tyre centre

Saw a lorry of evoque today. The 20's on there had continentals

I stand corrected, but the good news is that people are ordering the 20" options which IMHO are the wheels the car deserves.

My dealer has confirmed today that the 20" Decal Silver Finish Style 6 wheels that i have ordered, will be delivered with Pirelli Tyres (065AB).

I'm getting the Style 7 Wheels (20") on my Dynamic Coupe and the spec sheet states that it is going to have Continentals.