Sunfull Tyres

[ee904age]

Has anyone had experience with Sunfull brand tyres?

Back in mid January the wife was going on a trip to Hawkes Bay and when giving the car (Mazda Atenza) a once-over before she left I notice both front tyres were buggered. In a hurry I sent her on a mission to get some new ones that day so she could leave the following morning. She ended up getting two Sunfull 215/45/17's, not sure on exact model but they were cheap, around $140 a piece.

Last week when doing the oil and filter on it, I notice the left front is down to the wear indicators and the right has around 2.5mm! When ney were new i remember commenting how deep the tread was, they almost looked like an offroad tyre! It didn't get an alignment at the time they were fitted, but it tracks dead straight on a flat road and the wear is even, not inside or outside edge. The car has done approx 5000km since fitted, is this a reasonable life for chinese tyres these days?

[siren676]

I had them on my starlet, tread wear was pretty good, still got a pair on the back after nearly 50,000k's. Front tyres lasted around 20,000k's of hard driving and some track/drag/gymkhana days.
Seems weird that yours have disappeared in just 5000k's

[Grrrrrrr!]

Sounds like the wife has taken up drag racing on the sly

[GDII]

I have some on the starlet. They aren't round so the steering wobbles. I need to get to the garage who sold them to me and sort that out. Apart from that they seem to work ok for $95 each.

[rollaholic]

never heard of sunfull, but 5000k is terrible tyre wear. all the chinese brands i've had any experience with have been super hard, hence never seem to wear out (see 50k on rear of car above)

they have also all been pretty scary in the wet - triangles, westlakes, blue streaks... avoid.

[KwS]

they have also all been pretty scary in the wet - triangles, westlakes, blue streaks... avoid.

My triangles were scary in the dry!

[Heylin]

I run ling longs on the front of the FTO, can spin them up

which is scary considering

a) automatic
b) crappy low powered FTO GR (140HP)

5000kms is really bad, my old MR2 would eat a set of Falken FK452 in 8000 kms and I thought that was extreme.

[loudsir]

5000km is shocking. I have "PACE" 225 16s on the back of the BMW and they are terrible in the wet, if you try to get anywhere in a hurry it just spins one wheel, and if you aren't careful on roundabouts you end up sideways. Worst tyres I have ever had.

[1I1]

I'd be extremely disappointed with that few k's on a set of tyres! RE002's on the Corolla have done 16,000km (including a few laps on Taupo circuit where rubber was beading off lol) and there is still about 5 or 6mm left on all four tyres.

[tsoob]

Pretty china.

Would not sell them to you in the first place.

Also check your alignment sounds like that has something to do with the wear.

You know where we are

Nick