Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

after a bit of searching I still can't find the post about that cheap tyre place in melbourne...

anyone remember the name of it? think it was in the northern suburbs somewhere..

need to replace the snow tyres (so I can go return the rubber to nature on some *private* street somewhere :wassup: )

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/57344-that-cheap-tyre-joint/
Share on other sites

tsk tsk... Lazy.. I found it in 10 seconds.

http://skylinesaustralia.com/forums/showth...ead.php?t=55144

I believe this is the information you're after:

North End tyres bro

14a carrick drve,

tullamarine.

Cheap as chips, i scored 285/R18/30 Pirelli Pzeros for $150 fitted.

Thanks

lmao make sure u keep those snow tyres!!! unless u destroy them completely when sending them back to nature :)

man i had a ball when my car first came to aus with them on it... Bridgestone BLIZZAKs!! hahaha man the amount of smoke that poured from them.

looks like i'll be heading back down there soon......i wasted those pzero 285's i had on the rears! Great tyres but the tyres wore away pretty quick, i imagine they were just made of a softer compound.....hrmm perhaps i just ripped em up too hard....its really hard to say looking back! Great grip off em though!

Be careful though I got a couple of duds which caused my car to vibrate at 100km/hr.

Got new tyres now and all sweet.  They didnt want to give me a refund either.

dont spose u still have the other ones around do u? :D

that might be because when they changed the tire they didn't balance the wheel, most mechanics will balance for under $10

Yeah, these guys dont do a good job of balancing, I'd still take it elsewhere for balancing after they do it.

None the less, they have many great bargains.

I once got some duds off them, and they refunded me (at $20 less per tyre as it was a few weeks since i got them), as long as I got some others off him..

Yeah, these guys dont do a good job of balancing, I'd still take it elsewhere for balancing after they do it.

None the less, they have many great bargains.

 

I once got some duds off them, and they refunded me (at $20 less per tyre as it was a few weeks since i got them), as long as I got some others off him..

Yeah they are pretty good but for me I live about 1hr away so I didnt really want to go back and forth.

dont spose u still have the other ones around do u? :D

No Mate, I returned them as soon as I found they were causing vibrations. I mean I could hardly hold the steering straight at 100km/hr on the freeway.

They said they would sell them on .. Scary.. I advised them not to but Im not sure what they did.

  • 2 months later...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • The German place in Cabramatta was rock solid, fresh pretzel cooked to order back then. Then it went all quiet, after all the poker machines were removed, then I believe it closed for good. I did drive past the other week and noticed outdoor lighting a big screen, but no idea what is there now.  
    • Yeah I suspect even if you hold airmass per cycle/cylinder constant if you get too far away from stock you're still going to have problems running the factory tune within the bounds of the factory load scale. Cams, different displacement/rod ratio, etc. I'm just lucky that the GTIII-SS with wastegate boost + CA compliance cats is pretty much equivalent to stock turbos. When I have actual space I can finally get it tuned and modify the fuel system for flex fuel to 100% handle any detonation concerns when cranking the boost to whatever those dinky turbos can put out.
    • I would say no, why, because my daughter, who also lives in Goulburn, hasn't recommended us going there Pity, as we miss all the German joints around in Sydney, actually, the restaurants are the only thing I really miss about Sydney, and a special mention to Ishibanboshi at Bondi Junction, their Kara-age Don is heart cloggingly deliciousness (always added a special boiled egg...or 2) 😋 
    • Does that German restaurant still exist in the old place out the NW end of Goulburn? When I say "out the NW end of"...I am really being vague. It was 1997 when I was last there, and the only point of reference I can recall is that it was on the opposite side of the main drag from the big merino. And when I say "opposite side of the main drag", I don't mean "on the main drag". It was either a couple of streets back from there, or might have even been out in the sticks a bit further. Was an old farm building or mill or somesuch. And when I say "the big merino" I might actually be thinking of a completely different part of town, because I just looked on maps and the big bugger is not where I remembered him to be! The food was good, consisting largely of various German mystery-meat sausage/loaf things and kartofflen.
    • So while the second sentence is completely correct and the whole point of the conversation, the first sentence bears consideration. If this bloke is just hoping to throw big turbos on and drive it around, because there are no helpful facilities at all in his tropical paradise** then he likely has zero chance of even knowing what the TP is on the last column in the stock maps, let alone know whether the ECU is operating anywhere near it or past it. So the point is very very moot. And, per what I said before, at stock boost on those turbos, you may well be off the end of the map. **I'm just back from Vanuatu, so I know exactly what small Pacific nations can be like wrt paradise without requisite facilities. But it's not even that simple. I put a high flow on my car and had to drive it around without a proper tune because of the lack of opportunity*** to put the bigger AFM and injectors into it to allow it to be tuned. I had to turn the boost down to less than I had before, and back off the boost controller's ramp, because it was exploring parts of the map that it didn't drive in before, and really couldn't access for tuning on the dyno either, and so was pinging. It was still well within the last column, because when I first**** set up the Nistune on the Neo I rescaled all axes of the maps to give some more space to explore. ***Family dyno was broken ****This was 13 years ago, and the TIM thing wasn't a thing then and so TP would definitely grow when pushing past the stock tune's limits.
×
×
  • Create New...