Here we go - previous part of my wish-list with tires you can find on my channel page.
And right now we are going to continue searching and analyzing best summer tires for cars!
Continental.
Screw Continental! Plastic rubber. For the price of both Michelin and Dunlop, as well as not lying around on any basis. Recently, the quality that they are trying to compensate for by buying tests in “reputable automotive publications” has plummeted.
It goes with a screw before it wears out to the end. It is balancing very badly (of course, compared to domestic rubber, everything is perfectly balanced ... gee .. gee .. gee ...) A lot of complaints.
Fulda.
Gray import, sold mainly in the markets and in the online magazines. In general, good tires. Very good combination of price / quality in low-profile options. You can take, and even need.
Yokohama.
Very low wear resistance. The rest is either good or excellent. A520 - excellent tires, one of the best sports models in general, but only for dry roads. In the rain "swims" on light vehicles. A539 and promoted V102A (course stability at the latter is disgusting), it is clearly losing. Drivers who can afford to change tires every season I recommend. I do not recommend all the models positioned as high-quality ones, Michelin is better.
Dunlop.
Good tires, but a little expensive. The main feature when choosing - the country of manufacture. German walks longer, keeps worse, Japanese vice versa. The flagship of the lineup for Europe is the SP9000E, whose protector is a rain protector for DTM racing. Despite the frank sportiness is not only available in low-profile versions, which is nice. And everything would be fine, but our next participant appears on the scene.
Toyo Tires.
Cult rubber tuners around the world! Proxes T1S blew up the Russian market of low-profile sports rubber, primarily with a ridiculous price. And then people cleared what it really is. So no tires hold the water. It is very light (an article about the influence of the unsprung mass on the car’s behavior will be left for later). It has a very decent wear resistance for its class. Load factor is higher than other manufacturers. Well, noisy, well, but as the road holds! It is not bought for comfort. And now about the bad. Model discontinued. All of the above applies to the new model Proxes T1R, but it costs more. But, anyway, this is the best price / quality combination for sports rubber. All lovers of excellent ride quality to the detriment of comfort I recommend without fail.
Pirelli.
Untwisted thing. Point. In discussions on this rubber do not participate.
Nokian.
Good tires on very weak cords. Not even normal. We do not need.
Gislaved.
Continental, only a side view. Also not necessary.
Barum, Tigar, Matador.
Bastard scions of rich parents, to the quality of which they are still far away. For the price - between domestic and normal imports. It is better to collect money for something decently. For example, the difference between Barum and Firestone 175/70 R13 in the price when buying a set of 200-250 rubles.
Hankook, Kumho.
Cheap, angry, and high quality. Much better than the three freaks on top. In the absence of dough - to take definitely.
But if there is no dough (that is, absolutely NO!) ... It remains domestic tires. About her opus write a lot of honor. So quick.
MSHZ (Taganka).
To the devil immediately. Evil rubber in the world is not unambiguous!
Yashz (Medved).
Soot, not rubber!
BC (BC, Bila Tserkva).
We save money? Well, this is rubber for us. It is balanced normally, it goes for a very long time, reliable cords.
Omskshina.
Remember how I put ... on Matador? In the Omsk version you can take it, if you find it, gee .. gee .. gy. Here he is already worth his money.
Amtel.
Normally quite. Especially in white church performance.
Nizhnekamsk (Kama).
Average quality for our rubber. Perhaps.
The rest of the plants are doing crap with some incomprehensible prehistoric protectors (not considered!).
In general, do not try to find diamonds in a pile of smth. Either BC, or Omsk, or Amtel. I don’t know anything about Kama-euro, but it’s a complete crap for protectors.
I mentioned the main trademarks represented in the European part of Russia. If you write about all the rubber that exists, then sheets 500, an encyclopedia, and not a practical guide will come out - a review I had in mind.
And now, having bought tires, we unite slapping to tire fitting.
If this is not a tire shop, in which you bought tires, then most likely everything will be fine. But if not, and it is also of a free type, then it is necessary to follow and carefully. Rubber they need to fuse any love. In order to be a tire installer, you do not need to know Nichrome. You can teach a monkey. Therefore, it is easy to control it.
About the points on the sides of the beginning remember? Well, so, make sure that he combines them as it should. I met men - installers who did not know.
We fastened the rubber correctly and pumped it up. Now you need to balance. On the balancing machine there is a screen, or two, which, after scrolling the wheel, show numbers. We do not need to know anything, except that in the end, after balancing, it should be 00:00. We also look at how the wheel turns on the machine. If the eight - fuck this rubber (or disk).
The wheel we were balanced, removed from the machine, the weights were hit with a hammer and given to us. We carefully look at the weights. They bear the weight. We summarize the mass of weights on each side separately.
According to the law, the maximum weight of weights is 60g: 40g.
If more, legally we send the seller to the garden and demand money back (or let him change tires). If this moment is missed, then there will be an exchange only after examination that there is a big trouble.
Finishing balancing. It is done when mounted on the car wheel. With a good normal balancing accelerated to 210 - all goes without problems.
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