Cheap tyres versus expensive tyres - What Car? 

I bought expensive tyres and got two nails in them, on the sidewalls .. 3 weeks old, tyres in the bin ... thats why I buy budget tyres

If you push your tyres to hard then you will find they all have a limit

The funny part is a tire brand like Uniroyal is considered a budget/cheap tire. But the company is owned by the Michelin.

When i bought my mustang in 2005 i bought cheap tires ( at the time ) for the front. I would constantly take it over 140mph and do alot of breaking. Best tires ever. I still buy them but the price has gone up on the exact tires due to popularity goin up with them. All you got to do is inspect the tires before you drive especially long distances . Keep them at the proper inflation. And dont hit any curbs and you will be fine with the cheap ones.

Ten years later the same principles apply. Wet braking depends on good tyres and the premium brands deliver. If desperate to save money the midrange brands are much better than the budgets. Kumho, Toyo, Maxxiis, Vredstein, Yokohama.

“And this add is sponsored by Continental Tyres” yeah ok, I used to do 30,000 miles a year on budget tyres. I ain’t saying they are all good tyres, but you can look at reviews, just as you can for tyres costing 3 times the price.

Arrow speeds are what they give you at Kwik fit as cheapest option

I use Churchill and Kormoran mid range. Good tyres and they last a long time....

Picked the wrong cheap tires, the Ohtsu FP8000 are the reincarnation of the Falken 512, known for their wet traction.

all the big name tires are made in the same factories

its fine now all tryes have a A-E rating I've got rain sport 3 rated A in the rain so can't get any better surely it also depends what car you drive, some naturally break better than others,

When wages go up to match the skyrocketing cost of living, then I will buy the more expensive tires. Until then I'm driving with whatever bald tires are currently on my old piece of junk.

Excellent review! Both fast and comprehensive, fantastic work guys! Thank you very much!

I have goodyear efficient grips at the mo theyve nearly a year and 7k miles so far and indeed they do have an efficient grip set of 4 and tracking front and back £355

Surely that just points to you driving to fast for the grip level you currenty have? Personnally I like the extra leeway that more grip gives, however if you are incapable of adjusting to driving with lower grip levels, you should not be on the road.

just bought two new compasal tyres , so far so good

There is a very happy medium in really decent Korean hankook and kumho tires

I have Pirelli P7 Cinturatos on my Mercedes and they are great. Had the old P7s before, but the Cinturatos are better. Lots of grip, low noise and predictable handling. I would definitely buy Pirelli again, they are worth every penny. I never cheap out on car parts and car maintenance.

how about the dunlop sport maxx? how are they compring to the michelin sport 3?

I've got some Toyo tyres from China, just changed my front ones after 4 yrs. My rear ones are still in great shape. Can't complain.

Thanks for this video

Not exactly though. Cheaper tyres = change it more often. And new cheap tyres are better than expensive old ones.

The best is my feet

bridgestone potenza GIII :)

I always buy premium tyres every time. I wouldn't go to a garage and get the cheapest, part worn breaks fitted to my car! and the same goes for tyres.

This test is flawed because they didn’t mention tyre ratings A-B or C look at the tyre Rating first then price nothing to do with brands

The best tyres money can buy is Continental but if you live in the UK and get a pittance of a wage compared to our european brothers you will not be able to afford them so budgets it is

Years ago I used Michelin X tyres. The most slippery tyres ever in the wet !!. This was on a Jag. Then I fitted a set of Pirelli Cinturato`s. Brilliant tyres !. Never Michelin again. Now I am old and drive a Hyundai (UGH) I fit budget tyres. No Problem.

This test is crap. It's tested in one profile and size. One type of vehicle. Only wet testing. No dry testing. Also they do not tell you how long any of these last. I've had all sorts of tyres. Some mid-range is better than any Continental tyre. The best of the best though, it the Kumho KU39 tyres. However, it all depends on the vehicle they go on as well as the rim and profile size.

CHEAP TYRES = FALSE ECONOMY Shop around and check the prices..... Buy "mid price range" tires for your car. It could save your life.

Force 1

SAVA S3 is the best !!!!

RUNWAY PERFORMANCE 926 10000KM TO THE RUBBISH

For what it's worth, i enjoy track days,and although I'm usually driving one of the slowest cars on the track (An old bangered fiesta that I use specifically for track work), i get round faster than many more capable vehicles. Save pushing your luck for the track, or at least only drive like a twat on rare occasions.

Linglong and Sunfull... the best chinese tyres!

this test is so unfair, u used PS3 vs some chinese unknown named small company tyre? OMFG, test with some chinese big manufacture such as JINLIN or CHAOYANG etc...

Michelin is great.

or mexico ;-)

Well fucking duh! Cheap tires are cheap. Did these tire have the same amount of plys and other statistics/ratings? Compare apples to apples.

Michelin tires are over priced junk and living on there name then putting anything great on the market. cooper tires are US made and cheaper then Michelin plus out preforming them. This guy in the video is clearly paushing Michelin. Goodyear makes great tires to but in his test they suck too and Michelin is great. the cheaps tire has less road noise then the Michelin, shows you how great they really are.

Michelin propaganda

lol copping around hahaha

Buying tires is like buying anything else. You get the best you can buy with the budget you have. Rich people can be safer on the road than poor people (providing they are willing to spend the money). Always was, always will be.

Tires have a ton to do with the car, and your plans for the car. If you are going to be selling your car soon, buy cheap off brand tires, you don't want to give amazing long lasting tires to some stranger you don't know who's about to buy your car. If you have a really crappy old car, your car sucks anyway so buy cheap off brand tires and just drive slow in adverse conditions. Also if your car is really old and crappy the transmission may go out or you might throw a rod. Great idea! Let's buy a $500 set of tires on a car worth $1500 and then have the engine go out and completely burn your $500 along with it! If you have a nice car, buy nice tires. Plan on having your car a while? Buy nice tires.

nankang would be a good contender or lexani, lionheart, accelera. why sunew?

Well, If you were out in the snow and in traffic your situation is going to be totally different to this video in an emergency. If you watch other "premium brands" being compared to each other you'll be amazed that there really is no clear winner as some are bad in the wet, others are better in the corners etc etc. It drives you mad trying to choose. At the end of the day when you visit your local tyre fitter he's going to give you the options on what he has in stock and you're going to pick the cheapest or the next one up. You're not going to stand there wondering which one and chose without youtube or test sites to look at. When was the last time you went to the tyre fitters in the summer and said I want a Michelin not an Pirelli?? I can't see there being a large difference with Winter tyres as long as you're not driving stupid. Everyone goes extra careful anyway, and they say these are better than summer tyres so any winter tyre is better than not at all.

I had PS3 for around 40.000km. The best tires I ever had. On all weather conditions it felt like there was glue on the road, and when breaking both wet and dry it felt like there were anchors pulling me back on the seat. A bit noisy, yes. Best tires ever for me. Thank you Michelin

I had brand new Continental Eco Contact Tyres on my last car, worst tyres ever used practically zero grip if a slightest hint of frost.

IOI the most funny thing in this video is it SUNEW vs Michelin, its like honda vs Benz. SUNEW is a chinese make entre level tyre, its price just 1/4 or 1/3 of the Michelin, for its price it does good enough.

“The benefits of the idea of ​​making a car wheel that has three tiers” * The car does not overturn if the car is driving fast or if the car is driving slowly. * Continuing the car's movement without stopping in the event that one of the tires explode. * The driver will not stop to change the wheel or change the tire. Destiny is in the hands of God, but prevention increases safety. Ebrahim.

very simple review.

Budget tyres are as good as expensive tyres just because they have big names don't mean shit anyway

Drive to the conditions, always leave good gaps, read the road and look ahead, smooth driving is best and safest.

I'm on my third set of nexen nferas and I love them, I get about 15 k . That's responsibly hard street driving, no issues whatsoever.

Well I'm poor so... I'm on that Altimax shit from TireRack

Yes get the best, because everyone should drive like they are at a race track

Lionhart Lexani Mayrun Duraturn Sunny Budget winners

I was on a budget, bought cheap chinese tyres for my evo. Worst mistake ever, within 20 hours i ended up buying a whole new set of branded tyres (dunlop at the fronts, bridgestones at the back). Chinese tyres + performance cars = coffin.

I always go to costco for tyres. Often do deals on 4 michelins. I have bought them when the deals running & then had them fitted later when I needed them.

Always run "economy" tyres, RIKEN at the moment, will never put chinese tyres on my car, always European economy, these are usually subsidiaries of the "Premium" - Imperial / Debica are also not well known but believe they are Belgium brand, again cheaper than "Premium" as they don't spend ££££££'s on marketing, someone's got to pay for that.

It's not exactly Pirelli's fault that the F1 bosses asked them to make a more complicated tyre, it turns out that Pirelli did a better job than anybody expected. I'll be totally honest, I love Bridgestone, my grandfathers car has them and they're really good, but Pirelli's are just as good, my dad used to have Continentals on his van and they were awful, no grip or stability at all, but when he changed to Pirelli the van was transformed.

Put pilot sport 3s on my track spec R56, from contact sports, difference is night and day, gives you the extra 20%

Michelin it is.

can this guy not pronounce "SH"? it's pronounced miSHelin, and at the end did he say CHopping around? or is he trying to say SHopping around?

I always buy cheap Chinese tyres, they are the best

Pretty ok review, still need Tyre designer scientists to assist in explaining tyre long km/miles Jevity in relation to general road use and the tyre compound even if they said entry tyres generally serve 40,000 km and our premium drive 100,000 and our sports 80,000 a guide like this should be law so buyers have better buying knowledge. Also fuel economy rating.

I go to the scrapyard, £12 each and when I take wheel off the scraped car, if the brake pads are good they come with me, shop smart people

@tri400 Fuel saving triers = less tire friction = not optimal grip on road.

Get tyres with tough sidewalls, less likely to damage when hitting kerbs thus safer.

Has anybody checked the wetgrip on these tyres? The michelin has class A wetgrip. Why do not they comparing it with an A class budget tyre?

Im pritty sure the guy got some numbers wrong

Here in the Japan Alps, I'm on snow tyres year round. Buy your winter tyres in summer. Obvious when you think about it, and I'm off road a lot of the time, sometimes intentionally. So no point in balancing. Buying the best tyres you can makes a lot of sense. Even when you fit yourself (which I do), there's the same amount of effort. Recycle tyres are dirt cheap here in Japan. Bottom line, everything second hand is better in Japan than UK. A set of four 16-inch almost new, never punctured will set you back between Stg.50-100, equivalent. The dealers make their profit on fitting, balancing, fitting new valves and disposing of the old tyres. Disposal can be an issue, but don't be tempted to dump in the corner of the supermarket carpark, or even the auction car park. Jack, the Japan Alps Brit

where is Yokohama tires???

there out to make money alot of the cheaper tired come off the same line as the expensive ones just a different name and the rubber compounds may be a little different

Michelin tyre is good or not?

Cheap chinees tire will work and will be safe, but will probably only last 2 years before the tread runs out. So you save on the first purchase, but will discover you have to buy new ones soon after. A good set of quality tires like Toyo lasted me 6 years of smooth and safe driving for a good 100000 miles. Just touch the gum on the tire, you'll see the chineese one feel so more plastiky and some will even make you fingers go black !!!! That's the gum already coming out.

You can get Vredestein and Nokian tires in Europe, so you get the best of both worlds.

Imma combat this by getting wider tires, from a 185 to a 225

I have had the Atturo AZ800 (AllClimte), very cheap tire, 60.000 km and they are still running ...

One thing I don't scrimp on is tyres. You heard what the bloke said, tyres are the only part of your car in contact with the road. Would you really want a low budget brand for your life to rely on? Stick some cash by from two months wages, get a zero percent credit card, etc etc save money up but whatever you do buy decent tyres people. Not cheap horrible no name brands that are probably gonna wear out in half the time a premium tyre is. As for part worns, don't even go there. New, premium brand tyres are a MUST. Don't take any chances. I wouldn't.

Lol the brake tests were totally different, press the ******* pedal!

I think now what with all the price increases as long as there round people will buy the cheapest set. I’ve just paid £80 per tire and that’s the cheapest I could find

what car...sponsored by michelin

My 5cents - don't buy chinese tires and you'll be ok, just adjust your speed with road conditions. Buy new ones at 3mm!

Tires are really Tires these days unless you do you're homework Hers how my brands stack up as far as My Personal first Choice !! ALL terrain Michelin Tires second choice Good Year Tires!! BF good rich is my third my fourth would have to be firestone then Nitto tires my fifth Choice after that fuck all other brands are the same to me!! Basically you can Never go wrong with a Michelin Tire or a Good Year all Terrain !! Never!!

Big Companies anticompany, that's all !

Tyres are such a rip-off. You scrap at least 95%. What other product can you say that about?

LOL That's why I use Bridgestone RE-11 F1 should go back to Bridgestone

Still confused. There are loads of budget tyres around and with the new EU labeling some appear to have better fuel, wet braking and lower noise than brand names at twice the price. EG Infinity tyre was Fuel-C, Wet brake-C, noise 72dB at £56. Bridgestone was E, C 71dB at £119.

Your feet definitely the best thing to rub on the ground at 100 km/h

If you buy expensive tyres, you will pay half price for name of tyres.

Agreed! As long as you're not driving, in a car, or anywhere near anything with wheels.

Pirelli. Got the joke?... if you don't, go watch F1

MichelinPilotsports here. Driving is mad here in Belgium. Sometimes on the high way, the car in front of you decides it needs to do a full breaking. A few times I only had meters to spare. I do not want a tire with any longer braking distance than the Michelins ;-)

#sugarnads Yes get the best, because everyone should drive like they are at a race track @Mazda rx7

What is your take of milestar tires?

u getin what u pain 4

what car is gud lel

life depends on tyres

Couldn't agree more...