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Made in germany here, still got a good part worn one if anyones interested, all it would cost is your petrol to come and pick it up if your close to Co armagh
Is that a part worn GY F1 ? If so I'm interested in one as a spare . My car came with a wheelbarrow spare ( spacesaver
) & I'm currently carrying one of my track wheels fitted with a cut slick as a spare . I'm not too far away from you ( Newtownbutler ) .
but when you have 7 roundabouts between home and work .................lol
Guess you live in the Craigavon/Portadown area ?
I'll be going that way on Sunday if you are around as I'm racing in Bishopscourt .
Today I rang Goodyear UK & asked them what the story was . I described the markings on my front tyres & they told me that they were illegal ! They advised me to go back to the place that fitted them to get them exchanged & if they refused I should contact trading standards . They have had a lot of calls about this so there are a lot of these tyres around .
So I called into the place where I bought the tyres & they had never heard of such a thing . As far as they knew as long as is had the 'E' number in the circle it was okay to use the tyres . I had did my homework & the number in the circle is only the country the tyre is made for . They didn't know about the long number beside the circle which is the actual number that indicates it is suitable for use in this country . My tyres have the E13 in the circle but no long number .
They were still being stubborn so they brought me into their tyre store to show me that all their tyres had that E number . That backfired as all the tyres we looked at also had the long number as well .
All that is except another set of the Goodyears identical to the ones on my car .
They reluctantly accepted that I might know what I was talking about .
I had told them about ringing GY UK & gave them the number . He then called somebody who turned out to be his GY supplier in Belfast . The GY supplier then rang GY UK & called us back . I was instructed to take a pic of the E marking on my tyre & e-mail it to the tech department of GY UK to prove it was the wrong tyre . They would then send me to my nearest GY agent to get them replaced .
The place I bought the tyres are not a GY agent & I think that's why they were reluctant to change the tyres . I guess they were fearful of not getting reimbursed by GY .
I was told that the ROI uses slightly different tyre markings than the UK so I'm not sure if this info helps everybody . Here are the numbers for Goodyear tech departments if you want to check for yourselves .
UK - 01902 453097
Ireland - 00353 16238500
I'll let you know how I get on with GY UK .
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yes mate it is, made in germany, i live just beside craigavon hospital, and ill be at home all day sunday, drop me a line when ya want it, i need the room in my garage
The fronts are only on the car 6 weeks & I thought the car was a but more prone to understeer in the wet but I put that down to the tyres not being scrubbed in . :shock:
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