Miles per Tyre

[Joshie]

Just checked the rear tyres on my M3 and was surprised to see that they are almost illegal. All the broadsiding has certainly taken its toll.

So thats 6000 miles and a new set of rears - the cost? about £240 each (gulp).

I worked out that the over ambitious style and two trackdays only cost me about 8p per mile - doesn't spound so bad when you look at it that way .

[DaveP]

I think there's a few bits of your rear tyres left on my bumper from the 'hasty' car park exits at LeMans....

I can scrape them off and mail them to you if you want to try sticking them back on bud??

[Joshie]

Yes - a bit irresponsible really but great fun at the time

[Bushy]

Just thinking about this analagy, so if you bought 4 tyres every 10k miles, costing say £200 each that would mean the same cost at 8p per mile for tyres, not much difference really

Interestingly, if you pay £175 a corner the price drops to 7p and if you pay £250 the price rises to 10p

And agian if you get 8k miles at £200 or 15k miles the costs are 10p and 5.3p

Frighteneing when you think I drive 30k a year, thats £3k a year on tyres alone, if you average 20mpg then it only costs around £5500 for fuel, now thats frightening

Thansk for making me think

Bushy

[Joshie]

Well if you're a high mileage-enthusiastic-trackday goer then it costs you a fair few bob - shouldn't be the price of fuel but the price of tyres we should be complaing about.

[TarmacTerrorist]

shouldn't be the price of fuel but the price of tyres we should be complaing about.

I've always liked comparing the price of petrol againsnt things like Coca Cola or milk, litre for litre the petrol is always cheaper.

[toasty]

eh? surely milk is cheaper than petrol per litre? Except perhaps soya milk. Good point about the cost of tyres though, however the only solution is cheap tyres and I guess we've all bought those in the past and regretted it!

[DavidT]

Yes - a bit irresponsible really but great fun at the time

It was good fun going round the track at Le-Mans Ian, I can vouch for that.

I have a couple of new M3 tyres at the garage if you are interested. They will be at mates rates.


David

[TarmacTerrorist]

eh? surely milk is cheaper than petrol per litre?

Last time I bought a 2 pinter from the corner shop it was approx 80p, probably cheaper down at Safeway but then so is the feul.

[TimJMS]

Even though I dont produce milk, I cannot help but be interested in this topic. You will find that the major buyers are currently sourcing UK produced milk for the farmgate price of 18p / litre, or 10.2p / pint.

Next time you hear about the price of milk going up in supermarkets because of the greed of farmers, try and remember the nearly 400% mark - up the supermarkets operate with.

So thats the breakeven cost of milk (actually slightly more than 20p for most producers). I wonder what breakeven production costs really are for a performance tyre?

[TarmacTerrorist]

or performance petrol?

[Joshie]

Hey Dave - sorry its taken so long to reply to your offer but I've been away and burried under loads of work for the last month.

I actually got myself a pair of rar 19" Pilot 2's for half price - looking for some fronts now so I'll PM you

[Riz_RS4]

Joshie, off-top but how does the BMW dealer service compare to Audi`s?

Riz

[Joshie]

I was a bit spoilt at Wayside MK as I knew the staff and I only had a couple of visits to Victoria BMW - they were very accommodating and fitted me in on Saturday morning with no notice to fix the internal mechanism on the drivers door so I'd say "so far so good"

why, you're thinking of moving up to a CSL?

[Riz_RS4]

I was a bit spoilt at Wayside MK as I knew the staff and I only had a couple of visits to Victoria BMW - they were very accommodating and fitted me in on Saturday morning with no notice to fix the internal mechanism on the drivers door so I'd say "so far so good"

why, you're thinking of moving up to a CSL?

Not yet but am tempted to move over to BMW in a few years time... or maybe sooner depending on finances and insurance etc

"The ultimate driving machine"

Riz