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R888's whilst you still can, they are great :)
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Jerry wrote:just to let you know Tyre Trader pulled out on the rear wheel deal they reckoned that they couldnt get a delivery from Toyo for the forseable future..... :? :? or did they cock up on the price????
Camskill for tyres seem to be best :)
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Jerry wrote:Just placed an order with camskill for my backs:-
2 of TOYO T1R PROXES TOYO T1 R - 225/50R15 91V TL Total Price £151.60

Will have to wait for comfirmation from them make sure they are in stock but fingers crossed.

Tyre traders regardless of how cheap theirs are, i will never use them again, really not a nice attitude when i phoned them, and i'm not sure they could really be bothered!
fair enough, never had any issues with them in the past, but Camskill have always been really good on the phone and with contact in general :)
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At the moment I have 225/50 on the rear and 205/50 on the front. Ideally I would like to repace the 205s with the now unavailable Dunlop 215/50 to bring things nearer to O.E. spec. and to improve ground clearance (I'm sick of listening to the front spoiler scrape over speed humps).

As an experiment I put the my rear 225 tyres on the front to see how they fitted. Ground clearance was great and the car rode more comfortably at the front. I stuck lengths of white insulating tape inside the wheelarches to highlight any rubbing problems and then went for a quick test up and down my street. Sure enough the tape showed the 225s were slightly fouling the inner wheelarches. 225s at the front are no good to me.
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