Right, executive decision made, 5 ordered. Boat pushed out, £660 delivered for 5 from Oponeo. Looking forward to the kitchen filling with the smell of fresh tyres, ATRs plus a couple of Conti winters for SWMBO's Jazz.
Oh how nice it must be to be affluent. Del, have you changed your address, I ask as you keep ignoring my begging letters
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9th Feb 2018 3:05 pm
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Please keep the begging letters coming. These new plastic fivers & tenners are useless for lighting the log burner!!
TBS It's the first time I've bought new tyres for the Discos at "regular" prices since 2010, from memory. There was 2 18" ATRs from Italy at £70(ish), sold on after the demise of DB.
Half tempted to jus leave them as a tyre column in the kitchen, I love the smell of fresh tyres in the morning.
9th Feb 2018 4:35 pm
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Sell me your duratrac!!
9th Feb 2018 5:03 pm
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I would if I had any, never gone down that route.
9th Feb 2018 5:28 pm
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Minor change to title, saves starting new thread.
Well ordered yesterday, got shipping notice today.
Being shipped by GLS Group, never heard of them and their website seems to show that they are a cross Europe shipper. Anyone heard of them or had tyres from Oponeo how did shipping work out? Last time I had tyres come in from parts foreign (those 18" ATRs from Italy) they came into the country at Heathrow!!
10th Feb 2018 9:48 am
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I’ve had loads of different things delivered by GLS over the years. I’ve never had any problems with them. It helps that the driver on this route is a very nice fella and rings about 1/2 hour before delivery to ask “ are you around? “
I’ve bought Tyres from them before with no issues and arrived within the promised 48hrs and all the same date code, I’ll look later but from memory the tyres were only months old.
The one thing that I notice about Openeo is tyre price changes a lot I bought 19” ATRs at €136 but within a few weeks they were €215 for the exact same tyre.
10th Feb 2018 10:17 am
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Paid the equiv if €150 a corner, not too bad. I could have hung around for them to get cheaper, or more expensive, but if you get the green light from SWMBO best not to hang around. That bulb may not stay green forever.
10th Feb 2018 10:29 am
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Re: ATRs on the way.
DSL wrote:
Looking at getting a set of Pirelli ATRs for the D4, question is do I need to get a 5th from the perspective of, should I have a puncture, running with 3 x ATRs and the existing spare, an unused Pirelli Scorp? Obviously until I get it fixed. I've always tended to get the same all round, incl the spare but ended up never using it.
If the tyre is the same size I can't see any problem, thoughts oh tyre experts?
might have a set of these in the shed (got 3 sets of wheels tyres) remind me what did I buy from you a while ago ? lol please excuse any grammer/punctuation mistakes,i'm thick,thankyou
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11th Feb 2018 11:06 am
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It does indeed seem a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Sorry Del, a tad late now, but I was struggling to find the link
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12th Feb 2018 9:51 am
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Cheers, now gone for 5 (boat pushed out) a bit obsolescent.
Tyres' journey started in Beaune (central E France) Fri 9/2, up to Calvin near Lille then to UK hub yesterday, today (11am) up to Parcel Force NW hub so should have them tomorrow or Thursday. Great it's Parcel Force, local depot is just up the road.
Slight hiccup with the tracking ref & link that Oponeo initially gave me (nothing recognised), quick message to them and got the tracking refs for all 5 tyres, incl the Parcel Force ref, that let the tracking commence.
PS this discussion on same spare or not may still be revived, it looks like from the tracking references one poor lonely tyre hasn't left the PF national hub. It may follow later. Or not.
13th Feb 2018 7:16 pm
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They got here, woohooo.
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Date code 0318 so fresh as fresh can be.
15th Feb 2018 10:44 am
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Nice! 2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
15th Feb 2018 12:16 pm
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Lovely, at c.50k miles from a set, that's a sight that you don't see regularly.
Do they have the Land Rover (LR) stamp on the sidewall still?
Open the door, I might get a waft of them 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
15th Feb 2018 12:47 pm
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They are in the dining room to stop the lovely smell wafting my way. Saving that for special occasions.
Will look re LR markings.
PS Found the LR markings, subtle is understating it a bit.
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These were made in Romania & shipped from France, last ones (like 8 years ago) were made in Portugal ISTR.
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