**Unofficial Tyre Thread**

hartgeh3 said:
I posted this in the BMW thread but anyone know if its ok to put non-spec tyres on BMW? Looking at Contact 7s which have Maserati "MGT" on them. Dont really want PS4S as the contacts are better, just upgrading from 20 to 21 wheels on the 640d.
245/35 21
285/30 21

I emailed Conti and they said:

The MGT tyres are dedicated for Maserati, normally you should not have an issues if all 4 tyres will be changed, however the tyre specification is select by the vehicle manufacturer not ourselves I’m afraid. Therefore I would strongly recommend to contact with BMW technical department to confirm this fitment (especially if your car came with SSR tyres as an original equipment).

No point asking BMW, they'll just say buy whatever brand they're promoting these days or PS4S
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I honestly think you'll be fine. You're not fitting ditch finders or running different tyres on each axle like some people do. You're buying a quality tyre that yes, may have been tweaked for Maserati, but it's not suddenly going make your BMW a death trap. :) That is of course in my opinion. Under the core it is still very much a Conti SC7.
 
Jeez, what a day with tyres!

I wanted 4 x Continental All Season Contact 2's (215/45R16) for my Fabia. I found them cheapest on Asda Tyres but when picking a fitter it showed a local one I've used many times before. I called them and they said they'd do the tyres for the same price with free wheel alignment. Turned up this morning and new tyres fitted in just over an hour. However, when I looked at the tyres there was no number 2 after contact. Told them they were the wrong tyres, they apologised and ordered the correct ones so they had to remove the new tyres and put my old ones back on. Got to go back next week to have them fitted now. I felt bad about complaining but the newer version of the tyre has better fuel efficiency so I just wanted what I'd paid for. If only I'd asked to look at them before they fitted them!
 
zom247 said:
Jeez, what a day with tyres!

I wanted 4 x Continental All Season Contact 2's (215/45R16) for my Fabia. I found them cheapest on Asda Tyres but when picking a fitter it showed a local one I've used many times before. I called them and they said they'd do the tyres for the same price with free wheel alignment. Turned up this morning and new tyres fitted in just over an hour. However, when I looked at the tyres there was no number 2 after contact. Told them they were the wrong tyres, they apologised and ordered the correct ones so they had to remove the new tyres and put my old ones back on. Got to go back next week to have them fitted now. I felt bad about complaining but the newer version of the tyre has better fuel efficiency so I just wanted what I'd paid for. If only I'd asked to look at them before they fitted them!
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Nightmare!
 
Penfold101 said:
You have someone on ignore in a tyre thread…?
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Nope I use the forum via New Posts. Threads can be ignored if they aren't of interest to stop them showing up. But pinned threads can't be ignored, and imo some unimportant threads have been pinned. So I keep seeing threads about tyres, cycling etc and I can't justify why I should be forced to see them.
 
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Otherwise you get a lot of people starting individual threads about tyres when the information either already exists in this thread or could be part of the conversation here.
 
zom247 said:
I wanted 4 x Continental All Season Contact 2's (215/45R16) for my Fabia. I found them cheapest on Asda Tyres but when picking a fitter it showed a local one I've used many times before. I called them and they said they'd do the tyres for the same price with free wheel alignment. Turned up this morning and new tyres fitted in just over an hour. However, when I looked at the tyres there was no number 2 after contact. Told them they were the wrong tyres, they apologised and ordered the correct ones so they had to remove the new tyres and put my old ones back on. Got to go back next week to have them fitted now. I felt bad about complaining but the newer version of the tyre has better fuel efficiency so I just wanted what I'd paid for. If only I'd asked to look at them before they fitted them!
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I find a lot of local garages and smaller dealers are used to people just wanting a tyre, or maybe a sort of tyre put on and not caring about specifics and they often don't seem to have access to much of a variety where there is profit/incentive in it for themselves i.e. mostly cheaper basic tyres and previous generation versions of tyres, etc. so unless you are quite specific it can be a bit less than ideal doing it through them i.e. I like to use V speed rated because I can rather than necessarily need to but the places I use don't put much value in speed rating as long as it matches the minimum required so unless I'm specific about that point they'll just stick anything on.
 
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throwaway4372 said:
Nope I use the forum via New Posts. Threads can be ignored if they aren't of interest to stop them showing up. But pinned threads can't be ignored, and imo some unimportant threads have been pinned. So I keep seeing threads about tyres, cycling etc and I can't justify why I should be forced to see them.
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Man, life must be so terrible! FORCED to see and comment in threads that don’t interest you! The humanity! :cry:
 
Not my fault the forum has an ignore feature and all I want to do is use it as intended.

Making a sticky for tyres to save threads obvs helps the motors section, but it does cause this problem for non-motors users, just understand that's moving a problem not solving it.
 
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throwaway4372 said:
Not my fault the forum has an ignore feature and all I want to do is use it as intended.

Making a sticky for tyres to save threads obvs helps the motors section, but it does cause this problem for non-motors users, just understand that's moving a problem not solving it.
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You know what I do with threads I don’t want to read? I don’t click on them.

It’s like my own in-built ignore feature!
 
Penfold101 said:
I’ve no idea, but now I’m just trying to see how many times I can make you reply to a thread you’re desperate to ignore.

I hope you don’t get tyred of it! :cry:
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Ok. I don't really see why you'd want to do that, but I don't need to understand your motivation, I can just ignore you - can't pin your way around that. Have a nice day.
 
Nice video above, funny enough been watching some of his stuff recently as I am debating this:

Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
Michelin Pilot Sport 5

This is for the Mustang, the default is everyone puts the 4s on, but as the chap showed above, the 4 vs 4S in one video, the 4 had better wet performance. The 5 more so it seems.
I get the dry grip benefits of the 4S and it being more track focused, but I am no tracking it and thinking an inexperienced driver in this sort of car wants more wet grip.....
Price is identical due to 15% off on the 4S.....

Any thoughts?
 
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