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Michelin tyres compared to Budgets
Michelin tyres compared to Budgets
Ben Collins – the racing driver once known as The Stig – puts Michelin tyres premium and budget tyres to the test to see if price can impact performance
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Michelin tyres: Do you pay for what you get?
While I feel it is important to compare consumer brands, I think that you are normally looking at a cheap product compared to an expensive product and all the things that slot in between the various things.
It is saying why Primark clothes are cheaper than, say, Marks and Spencer clothes. There are hundreds of differentials you could look at, but at the end of the day, they are after all only clothes and you pay your money and take your choice.
It is the same for millions of other products that we buy, At the end of the day, we are not really comparing like for like; after all, a coat is a coat and a handbag is a handbag.
You can only compare like-for-like products that are the same make and the same quality. It makes sense then that a Michelin premium tyre should be of much better quality than a cheap budget brand of tyre; after all, its not rocket science.
Michelin tyres have over a century of expertise
Like all the top tyre brands, these companies have put billions of hours of time and money into research and development until we have reached the very high standard of today’s tyres.
These products have reached higher and higher standard over the years to give us high-performing car tyres that we can fit onto our cars and enjoy today.
The budget tyre companies that arrive on our shores
from places like China are in a completely different class to the top tyre companies. Please don’t get me wrong, I think that there is a call and a place for budget tyre brands;
indeed, at the moment, the cheap new tyre is out selling the premium tyre products (at least in my area of Halifax, Yorkshire, UK).
The thing that I am not sure about is when videos are made comparing these products.
I think it would be much fairer to compare the budget tyre brands against each other and the premium tyre brands against each other, say Michelin versus Goodyear or Pirelli. I think that we all know that a Michelin tyre will stop at a much shorter distance than a budget tyre?
What about the other things that should be thrown into the equation? Michelin tyres compared to Budgets
For example, would the results have been the same if the test had been carried out on a Ford Fiesta or a Vauxhall Corsa? I do not think so. They always seem to use a top-of-the range model, with all the mod cons, to test these tyres when it is obvious that the
Michelin tyres are going to outperform some budget brand from some far eastern country.
Another factor is the Price? It does not take much time now to compare tyre prices on the internet, and you can clearly see that Michelin tyres will cost £30 to £40 more than the same-size tyre from a budget brand.
Does this money pay for the extra 10 yards braking distance,
I don’t know? I only know that the consumer has the choice of whatever he or she is going to buy, including tyres for their car.
We can all make a choice when we buy a tyre because all the tyres now have a label system that will tell them just how good their tyre is before they buy it. If things like mileage or braking distance are important to them, they can choose to buy one of the
premium brands, Michelin tyres compared to Budgets
but if it is just a tyre that they need because they are restricted to a certain financial budget, then it would be a budget or mid-range tyre that they would go for.
We know that these tests are carried out in good faith, but they are really just advertisements for tyre company concerned, The tyre information is clearly shown on the tyre label before the tyre is purchased, and you pay your money and take your choice.
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Eric has spent all his working life apart from a brief 6 months as a firefighter in the tyre trade. Married to Michelle, having 8 children all now grownup.
Tyres are Eric's life long passion. Apart from running his business Eric is a keen Blogger and runs 4 online websites relating to his business.
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