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Postby Dean » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:38 pm

I swear I am fricking cursed today.

I have never had a puncture.....EVER...until today when I was due to go out and get my two new front tyres.
It was a bloody great piece of wire cutoff that lodged itself in the rear wheel.

Why god, why.....?
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Postby Myfeckin FTO » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:48 pm

Is it repairable?
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Postby rsg » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:21 am

I had the same thing this friday, my back left tyre got a small stick (?) stuck in it, just outside the tread so they couldn't repair it.

I had to fork out for a brand new one even though this one was basically new - most annoying thing though was that the last guys (closed down) didn't give me a warranty card for the 2 rear tyres like they were supposed to (I never knew this brand came with one) and I would've paid almost nothing....
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Postby Dean » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:19 am

It was repairable.
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Postby Myfeckin FTO » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:00 pm

Dean wrote:It was repairable.


How you finding the RE720's?
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Postby Dean » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:18 pm

Myfeckin FTO wrote:
Dean wrote:It was repairable.


How you finding the RE720's?


Grippy. Compared to my two baldies anyhow.
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Postby cpoh » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:14 pm

I had a set of re720's as my last tyres, lasted only 9k miles! My f1's are a much better tyre so far.
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Postby Myfeckin FTO » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:02 pm

cpoh wrote:I had a set of re720's as my last tyres, lasted only 9k miles! My f1's are a much better tyre so far.


Well the F1's are in a different price bracket - I have found them to be a much better performance tyre as well. But for the money the RE720's are hard to beat - very surprised at the mileage you got though - they have quite a hard compound in comparison to the F1's - I got far less on the set of F1's than the RE720's.
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Postby soc » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:51 pm

Myfeckin FTO wrote:
cpoh wrote:I had a set of re720's as my last tyres, lasted only 9k miles! My f1's are a much better tyre so far.


Well the F1's are in a different price bracket - I have found them to be a much better performance tyre as well. But for the money the RE720's are hard to beat - very surprised at the mileage you got though - they have quite a hard compound in comparison to the F1's - I got far less on the set of F1's than the RE720's.



I'm loving the F1's on the golf too - I know sounds cliché but they have transformed the front end handling - quicker turn in that sometimes takes me by suprise..
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Postby cpoh » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:18 pm

Myfeckin FTO wrote: very surprised at the mileage you got though - they have quite a hard compound in comparison to the F1's - I got far less on the set of F1's than the RE720's.


Thats all I feckin needed to hear :lol:

Seriously though, my f1's cost me the exact same as my re720's with 15/195/50's the bridgestones were a good tyre just not in the same league as the f1's for grip and braking in the wet.
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