The high cost of driving...

[denny]

Noticed that my tyres were getting a bit on the treadless side recently, and as I'm driving to London tonight I thought it was about time I got them sorted. All four tyres. £240. Ouch.

Oh well, these things have to be done from time to time. Mind you, I'd better have traction to make Spiderman jealous for that kind of money...

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's because of the way I drive that I'm generally quite keen on spending lots of money on having good (expensive) tyres rather than whatever budget special the garage has on offer that week. I could have done all four for just over £100 this morning, but I wouldn't want to drive it afterwards!

Thinking back, I spent more than this (£260) on two new tyres for my bike a few months ago, so perhaps I should be getting used to it. Of course, the bike is a fairly high performance vehicle, whereas the car is just an old runabout...

Still, car or bike, you've only got a very limited amount of rubber making the actual contact between you and the road surface - so I'd like it to be a very well researched and carefully manufactured bit of rubber personally :)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Dear Gods...he missed an innuendo! (or was that one far too obvious to bother with, or was it there and i just didn't spot it?) ;)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Well obviously we like all our rubber to be carefully manufactured, but as far as bits that contact the road go... I dunno, I'm not much of a tarmac fetishist personally.