I need tires. How bad can Chinese tires be anons?
>>29048338My experience will be dated-Worked at a small garage that also did tire work. We'd have customers come in with weirdass Chinese made tires (Mainland china, not Taiwan), shit like "Double Coin" bias ply tires that smelled like kerosene and looked like they were made of pressed sawdust.The radials I saw had liners that looked like they were paper thin. Means you get a puncture, it's going to be a real chore to patch/plug it and have it not leak. Treadwear on any of them was usually pretty bad, but then again the people buying these tires were driving cars with numerous other issues. Even so, never saw any chinese made tires that were not sketchy in one way or another.
My experience with turkshit/chinkshit/etc is that it's usually a pretty bad rubber compound and a tread pattern that looks more aggressive than it actually is. I've really tried loads of these things on my Miata (14s are hard to find) and come to the same conclusion... they're just tires to get most people out of the shop as cheap as possible. They'll use names like "grand sport" or maybe sound Italian but they all perform the same. If you notice, on high end EVs and other cars coming out of China, they're not using tires from a Chinese company, they're using Michelins or whatever.
Australian here, all of our tyres have been Asian made for 20 years or so now. The Michelins sold here have been Thai made for a long time. Goodyear is Chinese made. They can make a good tyre.As for the cheapest shit possible? I've never had an issue with them. You don't get the levels of grip that you would with a high end tyre but that's a given. You're buying for economy so you have to drive within the limits of the tyre.I've had Michelin's, Bridgestone, Dunlop and Chinkies on my E92 and never really seen any difference in terms of longevity.
I buy chink tires for my shitboxNo reason to spend extra on a city car. The ride is gonna feel bumpy anyway
>>29048338i used a few sets of milestar ms932 sport with no issues. at the time they were about $70 ea.
>cheaping out on tires and brakes
>>29048338Chink tires are great for sliding, if you can't drive for shit and your car is equipped with a slushbox I'd get some michelins.
>>29048338>How bad can Chinese tires be anons?I usually just buy out-of-season winter tires for cheaper. They still exceed the lifespan of Chinese tires even during the summer.>>29049469>Chink tires are great for slidingYep, my last car came with some weird chinesium tires and the car could never reach anything close to its rated lateral G. I didn't care, so I drove the tread off of it before swapping them out. I basically went from half tread to needing a replacement in about 3500 miles. They don't last long at all.
Take the Falken or Hankook pill bro
>>29049944>the car could never reach anything close to its rated lateral Glol you have no idea
>>29049466in my case the cheap chinese shit has more grip than the shitty overpriced boomer tyres people usually run on their classics when they're not using the gaudiest 19s or 20s with rubber bands
>>29049466So how much should the tires cost? How much should the brakes cost?
>>29050230as much as they can, and as much as they can.
>>29048338They're better than rock hard, treadless tyres from 15 years ago but I really don't think they're worth the savings from getting something midrange like Kumho. IMO you'd only use them to get a car out the door for a roadworthy or if you're utterly broke.I drive old cars without ABS (Rav4 and an MX5) and they lock up in the wet like you wouldn't believe, especially the Rav. Cheap, bad tyres would make them undriveable.
