Bongo Fury

I need two new rear tyres.

I wanted to get some Nangkangs seeing as they seem to get the thumbs up here. Unfortunately nobody seems to stock them round these parts.

Whilst keeping and eye on the £££ I would like a half decent tyre. A local fitter suggested Marshal at £55 a pop fitted.

Anyone had Marshals fitted to their van?

why not try the on-line tyre sellers like mytyres.com. you can buy on-line and have the tyres fitted locally, mytyres give you a list of garages near where you live.

cheers

alex and jan

Thanks for the tip trekie.

I've already had a look on black circles, mytyres etc. but they don't list any local fitters within about 15 miles from me.

I have a fitter just round the corner from my house and two on the industrial estate where I work.

The one just round the corner can do the the Marshals. Ok they're about £15 more than the Nangkangs but what I lose in £££ I figure I gain in saved fuel and time. I just don't know what Marshals are like.

Not sure if this helps but I put Marshal van tyres (185s not low profiles) on my Townace once. Quite happy with them and got good mileage from them. They are about midrange when it comes to quality.

Cheers Ian

Just need a little bit of reassurance since I've never heard of them before.

I remember buying cheap bike tyres when I was a nipper. I think they were called Chin Shing. I seem to recall they were square in profile and and such a hard compond they may have well been plastic. Still they lastest a long time just weren't to hot prone on the bends. Don't really want to repeat that experience!

I am running the same tyres and they seem quite grippy. They are much better than the cheapies and have a very good load rating.

Cool. That's what I wanted to hear, a happy customer.

Cheers all

I am not sure which Marshall Tyre you intend to fit, a reinforced tyre with a load rating of about 100 I would hope, but here are a couple of reports for car tyres:-

http://www.tyretest.com/ganzjahresreife ... index.html

http://www.tyretest.com/ganzjahresreife ... index.html

PS. It looks like the LOWER the score the better the result.

Hope this helps.