Who makes which tyre
For many years the "premium" tyre companies looked at the so called "budget" manufacturers with disdain, eventually they realised that they were actually losing massive amounts of money to the man in the street who was not "tyre brandist" in other words millions of people realised that there is no need to spend ridiculous amount of money on high priced big name brands.
Do you really need to buy high priced race quality tyres for a family runabout that is only used to collect the shopping and the school run?
Do you need to buy premium brands at twice the price for a car that does 8000 miles per year?
NO OFF COURSE NOT!
The Big boys now make the budget ranges! They realised that the only way to compete at the "lower end" of the market is to make budget ranges, they are usually made in the same factory as the High priced tyres! They use different names simply because if they put "premium brand" names on them then no-one will pay the high prices for the other's!
Every premium company makes-or has made for them-budget ranges, have a look at this list of brands.
| AURORA |
made by Hankook in Germany
(WORLDS LARGEST TYRE COMPANY) |
| AVON |
American company |
| BARUM |
Tyres are made in chekoslovakia wholly Continental |
| Bf GOODRICH |
American company |
| BRIDGESTONE / FIRESTONE |
are the same company |
| CAMAC |
Tyres are made in Portugal, specialist caravan and trailer tyres |
| CHENG SIN |
Chinese company that makes tyres under licence for many major brands |
| CONTINENTAL |
German company.tyres are made throughout Asia and chekoslovakia |
| DUNLOP |
Originally Irish company now worldwide |
| ENDURO |
made by GITI TYRE Netherlands co owned jointly by MICHELIN AND FEDERAL |
| EVENT |
Tyres are made in the Netherlands by Event Tyres Nd. part owned by Continental. |
| FALKEN |
JOINTLY OWNED BY Michelin AND B.F. GOODRICH |
| FEDERAL |
Taiwan/China owned by Bridgestone |
| FULLRUN |
made by BEIJING TYRE COMPANY (China) makes tyres for many major brands |
| GOODYEAR |
UK manufacturer OWNED BY Dunlop group |
| HANKOOK |
is made in Korea or America |
| KLEBER |
French company produces 180 different brands |
| KUHMO |
Korea,original equipment on VW and Ford for 2008 |
| MARSHALL |
are made by Kuhmo |
| MATADOR |
Tyres are made in Chekoslovakia 51% owned by Continental |
| MAXXIS |
originally Dutch company, now worldwide manufacturer |
| NEXEN |
Tyres are made in Korea by Michelin |
| Nokian Tyres |
are made by NOKIA (the mobile phone company!) in Netherlands |
| PIRELLI |
Italian company in partnership with Dunlop |
| ROADSTONE |
tyres are made in Korea by Michelin |
| TOYO |
Japan specialist performance and track manufacturer |
| VREDESTIEN |
Netherlands,small company poor supply chain,specialist Winter tyres |
| YOKOHAMA |
America and China mainly sporty tyres |
| WANLI#FFE2B7 |
2ND Second largest company in China suppliers to :Volkswagen/AudI/Mazda/Isuzu, Renault and Nissan |
| FREE Puncture Repairs |
| TipTop repairs punctures free on any vehicle in the family that we have previously worked for. (whatever the previous job was, all customers have free puncture repairs) For more details on our conditions click here |
| Reverse Parking Sensor |
50% Cheaper than main dealers
We fit British made sensors with audible and visual warning aids,all colour coded and fully automatic at approximately 50% cheaper than main dealers. |
| Car Tyres |
Do you believe that any of the major tyre companies would be associated with unsafe tyres?
On a personal level we @ tiptop believe that £ per mile you are better of with budget brands, but having said that, if you want Pirelli/Michelin/Dunlop/Goodyear etc, that's fine by us. |
