Just got some new boots

[Parisien]

A few searchs.......for the above tyre -

http://www.blackcircles.com/order/tyres/search ...PZeros £313

http://www.etyres.co.uk/car-tyres-u...none&asc=1&newmenu=YES&showmenu=YES&tyre4X4=F ....Pzeros £309


http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl .....Pzeros £321

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m63b0s217...yres_-_20_inch_R20_inch_-_285_30_20_285_30R20 ....Pzeros £313....but a price beating pledge......but no stock etc currently


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[hodroyd]

£312.00 each is not a bad price then and compares with a few others. E-Tyres is a good price though!!!

 

[dem maser]

is £300 a tyre a good price??

 

[hodroyd]

Dem, it seems so, I will still try to shop around and haggle though, let's see how I get on?

 

[dem maser]

Just seems steep to me but if thats what it is then go for it

 

[TridentTested]

The rears on mine need replacing, I've been quoted £239.95 (plus VAT) each for the original spec P Zero Rossos, fitted and balanced, by Bill McGraths. It seems a fair price to me.

Fronts have 3 mm left on them. I think I live with that for the moment.

It turned out the fronts had 3 mm on them but unfortunately not across the whole tread; the inside edges were nearly down to the canvas. Bill McGraths charged me £30 (plus VAT) to check the geometry and reported the front was toed-out too much, hence the inside edges being chewed up. They changed the toe to neutral and the car was transformed. Gone is all the nervousness and its desire to jump into the nearest hedge. Now it tracks straight and sure.

The downside being that although the car tracked straight it now needed a good heft on the steering wheel in corners. Particularly noticeable on roundabouts. Before it wanted to turn on every sniff of a corner. Two weeks later and new front P-Zeros have replaced the lopsided ones and she is back to behaving in corners again.

So now I have the best of both worlds: fluid cornering and rock-steady stability on motorways.

Fellow QP owners, I would recommend you have your car's toe angle checked. Having the right setting transforms the car.

 

[bigbob]

Maserati service prices include a geometry check. Well they do on the GranTurismo...

 

[Parisien]

Yup...geo check very necessary....doubled the life of my Vreds by doing so....got nearly 15k out of my rears!!!

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[bigbob]

Yup...geo check very necessary....doubled the life of my Vreds by doing so....got nearly 15k out of my rears!!!

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Amazing! Half that for my first set of rears on the GTS.

 

[Parisien]

The others I changed from 4/5/6 mms left...but down to canvas on inner edge...horrific!!


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[cobratwin]

Are the Vreds a harder compound than the p-zeros or are they about the same?

 

[Parisien]

Treadwear number is 280....what are the p-zeros number?

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[cobratwin]

400 or there's about iirc

 

[BennyD]

Yup...geo check very necessary....doubled the life of my Vreds by doing so....got nearly 15k out of my rears!!!

There's a reason for that Frank. BTW, the accelerator is the one on the right.

 

[Parisien]

.......Ian......I'll have you know.....Marios compared me to a tiger......................

............or was it a pussycat behind the wheel of my 4200....;-)

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[Parisien]

Plus...the poor quality of most of the roads I use must take their toll!!

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[Brendan]

This place seems to be the cheapest for Vredsteins:

http://www.tyremen.co.uk/tyrefinder.aspx

Though a lot of places don't sell them

 

[bigbob]

P zeros on the GTS are only 220.

 

[Colossus]

That is a seriously good price, paid £330 4 months ago for my rears and that was the cheapest I could find at the time. I really wanted the Goodyear Eagle F1s but no one had them instock and they were actually listed as more expensive than the P Zeros, which surprised me.

 

[cobratwin]

P zeros on the GTS are only 220.

Humm my info could of been wrong then, only did a quick search and came up with that number.