Does anyone have a good contact for tires?

[Kiwi Carguy]

I have a mate who needs some new boots for his GT2. Anyone have some good contacts?

[Omerta]

Don't expect any pleasant surprises... We bought a new set of Direzza 03Gs for the Porsche last week - even at the discounted Targa rate they're up from $270 to $333 a corner since last year. According to the local Vince Martins, since they closed the Upper Hutt plant specialist Dunlops are made in Japan (or priced in Yen in any case), and guess which way their currency went while ours was falling through the floor...

[Kylie]

His best bet is to just google and ring around as I did for a while before I gave up and imported, but the dollar last year was 70 odd cents..... lucky me Not so hot now !

[RENN68]

even with the exchange rate, its probably still worth importing from the US. My Michelin PS2's for the Porsche were half NZ price landed when the the US/NZ was 0.7

[doodlebug]

Someone in NZ please tell me that 'tyres' is still the correct spelling over there. Not even those Americophiles across the Tasman have changed the spelling of the word, yet.

Apologies if you are a merkin.

[Kiwi XTR2]

doodlebug said:

Someone in NZ please tell me that 'tyres' is still the correct spelling over there. Not even those Americophiles across the Tasman have changed the spelling of the word, yet.

Apologies if you are a merkin.

You are correct, however I have a constant fight with Auto-correct spelling which I keep setting to English(New Zealand), which is almost identical to English(UK), but then you open a document that someone else wrote and all your preferences get changed to English(US)

[nzsimon]

I can help there only on the one brand though Kumho need to know exactly which one and size and it would be cash but less cash if you get my drift ( see what I did there worded a motor racing ref in )

[Kiwi Carguy]

nzsimon said:

I can help there only on the one brand though Kumho need to know exactly which one and size and it would be cash but less cash if you get my drift ( see what I did there worded a motor racing ref in )

Sorry for the late reply and thankyou for the offer.

It is for a 2004 GT2 and the size is 315-30-18

Evidently there is limited tyre choice available. I have however found these on the Khumo USA website but have no idea if they are available here to you.


Ecsta XS KU36 315/30R18 Performance 98W 180 AA/A View Product Info
http://www.kumhousa.com/Tire.aspx?id=125&cat=2...

If its too messy to arange then I understand

[nzsimon]

closest I can get to that is 305 30r 18 ( run flats in the v70 tread pattern for tarmac rally hill climb & sprint events max wet and dry and directional
retail is 410.63 we can source them for quite a bit less

only 10mm narrower fits an 11 inch rim