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Bridgestone or Dunlop

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by Graeme » Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:13 am

Can't speak about Dunlops but I had a set of run flat Bridgestone Duellers on 19" offset wheels - they did 33K miles before needing replacement - that's 10k more than all the Continentals and, most recently, Good Years I've had over 161k miles. In order of long life, Bridgestones come out well on top, with Continentals trailing and Good Years behind them. Based on my experience I'd go for Bridgestones next as they give better pence per mile. It's a toss up between the other two but the Good Years are way cheaper!

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by fergie1471 » Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:05 pm

Iv hated bridgestones on all my other cars but its usually because their sports cars and the hard tyre makes them feel very slippy. Not sure what they would be like on the X5 but I wont risk it again. Looking at getting kumho tyres shortly as they look a go trade off between price and performance. Anyone tried these before?

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by Glen » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:42 pm

Ive got Duellers on mine and the car feels planted its ready for a new set and it will be the Bridgestones again :thumbsup:

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by adricky » Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:45 am

I've had 2 set of Dunlops and now on my third set of Bridgestone.
I get 15/20% more miles out of the Bridgestone and they feel slightly better on the road.
20" staggered setup 40d.

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by celica » Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:10 am

Transfer box above price is that right and is that new, bmw, third party , fitted etc.?

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by Lyons » Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:16 am

For the price of the transfer box quoted above, you’d need to go through a few sets of cheaper tyres before you recoup the cost of replacing the box.

I don’t think I’d be risking it myself for so little gain.

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Re: Bridgestone or Dunlop

Post by Leslie » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:31 am

celica wrote: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:10 am Transfer box above price is that right and is that new, bmw, third party , fitted etc.?
Your own transfer box removed /reconditioned and fitted with 1 year warranty :D

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