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bloodycrashboy

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Hi guys, went for a great drive today. went through a tank of fuel, had a ball.

went up the Gillies HWY (263 fairly slow corners mostly on hot mix bitumen in only 19 Klm)

Had the window down listening to the turbo spool through the 4 inch intake, had a grin from ear to ear ( wife was looking at me a bit strange)

went down the palmerston HWY, wide open flowing corners.

Had lunch at paronella park then back home via bramston beach then Bruce HWY back to Cairns.

on the way back I noticed a vibration coming from the rear left, stopped and had a look (couldn't see nothing)

got back home safely but the vibration had got worse

then I took my passenger rear wheel off, and this is what I found

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the front tyres are Achilles ATR sport, the rears are Blue streak stiletto sport, so Im going into jacks tyres tomorrow and get another couple of the Achilles because they are on special for $138 fitted (245/40 18)

They cant be any worse than the blue streak crap!!

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Blue streak stiletto sport

they are renowned for having a bubbles in there tyres .how long have you had them ,as you can get some money back from them . lol looks like you got your money worth out of them ,they are just about bald

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They were on the car when I bought it, and the only bald part is where it bubbled.

there is still about 5 mm of tread depth left on the "good" part of the trye

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ATR Sport or ATR Sport 2?

PS yikes!

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Was it the fact that they were drven on for so long out of shape made them bald, or driving around down to smooth made them bubble?

Not the fact they are cheap, as some of the cheaper tyres hold together way better down to the belts when skidding compared to the likes of some of the higher end stuff

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I got 2 Achilles ATR sport fitted to the rear today at Jacks Tyres, cost me $270 fitted and balanced. ( bloody bargain!)

Spoke to Dan there, he has a 300kw car that he uses same tyres and recommends them.

He also said that he had tried both the ATR sport and the ATR sport2 and said that he didn't notice any difference between the 2

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