Tyre Recommendation please

Fahy4507 · Post by **Fahy4507** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:32 am

I have ID3 since Feb 2021, brought it in for its yearly service only to be told all 4 tyres need replacing. They're Bridgestones and I have about 19k Kms done in the year. I've always had Golfs on PCP and never had to replace a tyre, so it came as quite the shock.

I want to avoid Bridgestone tyre as replacement seeing how long they lasted. Any recommendations?

monkeyhanger · Post by **monkeyhanger** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:02 pm

If you have no reason to go all weather or Winter tyres, I'd be going Michelin Primacy 3 or 4. If you look around, you can get them for about £105 a corner fully fitted.

They'll be better than the Bridgestones on all measurable attributes of a tyre, Bridgestones are poor tyres for a top tier brand.

G43FAN · Post by **G43FAN** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:35 pm

19k out of a set of factory fit Bridgestone tyres is pretty good a lot of people, myself included, found we were replacing them at 8000miles approx.

OB1CCFC · Post by **OB1CCFC** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 3:14 pm

I have always found Michelin cross climates to be a great balance of performance, quietness and cost.

Flaming76 · Post by **Flaming76** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 6:33 pm

OB1CCFC wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 3:14 pm I have always found Michelin cross climates to be a great balance of performance, quietness and cost.

Always! We fit them to our response vehicles and I always use on my own.

MattP · Post by **MattP** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:46 pm

What sort of price can you get 4 of those fitted for? Only had my car a month, but I know with those naff Bridgestones I’ll be changing within 12 months.

monkeyhanger · Post by **monkeyhanger** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 8:07 pm

MattP wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:46 pm What sort of price can you get 4 of those fitted for? Only had my car a month, but I know with those naff Bridgestones I’ll be changing within 12 months.

At Costco, they're about £145 a corner fitted. Time the purchase with a regular Michelin offer for £80 off 4, and you're talking £125 a corner fitted. I'd personally rather go Primacy, given the mild Winters and well salted A road I experience on the Tyneside coast. If I lived out in the sticks, I may favour the Cross Climates.

bowsh123 · Post by **bowsh123** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:48 pm

nearly 23k out of my factory fit Bridgestones so far, got a bit left on the rears, loads on the front, i did think about rotating them to eek out some more as the fronts have hardly worn

TimF · Post by **TimF** » Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:39 pm

bowsh123 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:48 pm nearly 23k out of my factory fit Bridgestones so far, got a bit left on the rears, loads on the front, i did think about rotating them to eek out some more as the fronts have hardly worn

VW advice is not to rotate, but to swap front for rear? I'm glad I've still got my axle stands! (Previous cars have all had full-spec spares.)

monkeyhanger · Post by **monkeyhanger** » Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:02 pm

TimF wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:39 pm
bowsh123 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:48 pm nearly 23k out of my factory fit Bridgestones so far, got a bit left on the rears, loads on the front, i did think about rotating them to eek out some more as the fronts have hardly worn
VW advice is not to rotate, but to swap front for rear? I'm glad I've still got my axle stands! (Previous cars have all had full-spec spares.)

Swapping fronts for rears is "rotating" to even wear.

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