yea agree....I've seen so much cases of tyre bloating, side wall cracking, and customer complain of noisy, and bad handling during wet weather and most of all, their average mileage for each tyre is about 30K-40K km(for heavy car, normally worn out by 25K km).

only consider these tyre IF the car is rarely use/only use for short distance due to the cheaper tyre price.

for normal/regular usage (milage about 15K km to 25K km per year), there are many cheaper yet reliable tyre brand in the market like DUNLOP, VIKING, SILVERSTONE (definitely not M3 and M5 model), yokohama, goodyear, continental and now even TOYO malaysia (NEO 3). these type of tyre normally can last average 45K km to 60K km.

for heavy user (those who travel more than 5000 km a month), from my observation on salesmen car and highway taxi, MICHELIN XM2 is the most value for money tyre in the long term. cos it can last more than 100K km compare to other brand while the price different with other reputable brand is just around 30% extra.(not forgetting the reliability of tyre).

I'm not a spokeperson for Michelin......but most of my customer who use XM2(especially heavy user) only have good say bout this tyre in terms of mileage and handling. and most of them (if not all) have use it to a maximum 100K km while some still manage 80K km.

PS3 is comfortable and good handling...but the mileage is not as good as XM2 while the price is almost the same between these 2 model.

btw, my observation only covers small to medium sedan car (big car usually will clock lower mileage on tyres).

another disgruntling customer........
symtoms :- tyre bouncy, steering pull 1 side, steering vibrate even when slow, low-thumping noise.

[quote=netmatrix,Aug 17 2014, 08:21 PM]
Yes 2 years. Thats all they could do when the cracks are beginning to bother me. They are almost freaking new from factory! I got them because they are 5 bucks cheaper than Silverstone. If they could not hold up to 80km daily drive at legal speeds with cracks showing then... rubbish tires. I got pix of them but do not know where i put in one of my dvd pix collections.

Yeah Silverstone will not have as nice grip as any tire if driven insanely. I'm still in 1 piece 3 years now on silverstone and the same 5 years earlier. No way i'm going to GT radial again.



GT radial.......last time ( about 10 years ago) when they start selling in Malaysia market, their name was Gajah Tunggal.....in term of price, they are cheap....but definitely cannot tahan lama...

so now they shorten the name to GT radial.......nampak macam glamour, but kilang still same same....

if talk bout warranty on tyre, at least Silverstone is easier to claim compare to those cheap cheap tyre cos they have factory and distribution centre locally......at least u wanna fak 9 them also know where to find them and throw them the tyre....lol