17" focus Tyre Sales

[daveb7]

I just this morning purchased a second pair of Maxxis MA-V1, after replacing the front Falken ZE912s I had on my LR Zetec (with 17s), and todays purchase replaced the last two ZE912s which were shot.

The falkens were very nice tyres, quite smooth, fairly grippy, and very quiet.
I was starting to get a bit of a tyre drone from them, so I had the fronts replaced with the MA-V1s.

The drone ended up being QUITE loud, very intrusive from about 40km/h upwards, and resonant and annoying at highway speeds. It sounded like it was coming from the back, although I had a hunch that it mightve been from the front where the MA-V1s are.

Fitted the new pair, rotated the fronts to the rear....annoying tyre drone reduced, and comes at a higher threshold, but still there!!

The MA-V1s were only $146 a tyre, but I think ive ended up with a bit of a raw deal. So we have 40k kms of dreadful noise to look forward too :S


I hope for the dealers sake the MA-Z1s are better, you guys seem to concur.

In regards to the Falkens, I mustve had a bad batch, or a subtly off wheel balance, cause they wore out quite fast, maybe 20000kms? possibly more.
Quite dissapointing.

Who'd have thought 4 round bits of rubber could be so frustrating :(