Mis matched tyres?

[Freeatlast]

So my secondhand W204 C200 estate turns out that it has three Avon ZV7’s on it.

Two on the front and one on the rear.

The other rear tyre is a Hankook (I’m not sure if it’s a Ventura or other design without checking)…

All tyres have reasonable tread and I believe that the Hankook is the oldest of the tyres (the three Avons being the newest).

So my question is do I keep the set up as it is?

Should I switch the ‘odd’ rear tyre and if so I presume that Avons all round would be better than Avon fronts and Hankook rears?

Does it make a huge difference (are the Avons and Hankooks similar enough to not give issues)???

Thanks

 

[Gazwould]

Just let traction control do it's thing .

 

[LostKiwi]

Whilst not ideal it's not the end of the world.
Chances are you probably won't notice the difference.

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

One of my pet hates (room 101) if finance allows I’d ditch the Hankook and replace with a matching Avon

 

[s5tuart]

One of my pet hates (room 101) if finance allows I’d ditch the Hankook and replace with a matching Avon

Me too but that's just my OCD jiving with me

 

[Freeatlast]

I guess we are all a similar bunch - my OCD says to change the odd tyre for the £100 or so that it will cost, but my head keeps asking if I’m just wasting £100 and what the heck I’ll do with the odd. Hankook!! (Maybe I’ll try to find someone with 3 Hankooks and an Avon and arrange a swap)

 

[daibevan]

I'd just wait until one of the rears wore down & then replace them both at the same time, but I am a tight@rse.

 

[EmilysDad]

I wish my tyres were only £100 each

 

[sonic]

I would run with the current tyres & replace when one of the rears when it wears out. Not ideal but not end on the road.

 

[LostKiwi]

I wish my tyres were only £100 each

Know that feeling. Near enough double that on the SL

 

[Rotorhead500]

What age is the Hankook, and how much tread left?

 

[Droverunner]

The truth is there are so many cars about with a similar (or much worse) mismatch and they're not littering the ditches. However like some above it's a pet hate of mine and I'd change it. Having said that a factor is what you refer to as reasonable tread... 3mm or 6mm? And in checking it needs to be done right across the tread width to make a true judgement.

 

[RhodieBill]

I agree with Malcolm210 100%!

I once bought a car with 3 differing brands on it - all good and the same size - but within a month I went and bought 4 new matching tyres.

To me it'd like watching someone who's left-handed try to do something that requires some degree of dexterity! I can't watch!

 

[Rotorhead500]

I agree with Malcolm210 100%!

I once bought a car with 3 differing brands on it - all good and the same size - but within a month I went and bought 4 new matching tyres.

To me it'd like watching someone who's left-handed try to do something that requires some degree of dexterity! I can't watch!

Oi...!!!

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

As an aside - I was reading an article the other day that quoted one of the MIchelin execs saying “changing tyres before they reach the 1.6mm tread indicator is very wasteful as they are completely safe’. This surprises me on two counts one because it was commercial suicide and the other that in torrential rain the almost bald tyre would aquaplane and increase the stopping distance dramatically, that’s if you weren‘t spinning down the motorway out of control having just hit the brakes - I wonder if he’s still got his job

 

[Tony Dyson]

I guess we are all a similar bunch - my OCD says to change the odd tyre for the £100 or so that it will cost, but my head keeps asking if I’m just wasting £100 and what the heck I’ll do with the odd. Hankook!! (Maybe I’ll try to find someone with 3 Hankooks and an Avon and arrange a swap)

But then my OCD would be just as bad worrying about the tread thicknesses between the older Avon tyre on the same axle as the new one.
As Sonic suggests;

I would run with the current tyres & replace when one of the rears when it wears out. Not ideal but not end on the road.

Get what wear you can from existing, then replace all four! I'm not sure that Avon are a brand worth having anyway?

 

[Rotorhead500]

But then my OCD would be just as bad worrying about the tread thicknesses between the older Avon tyre on the same axle as the new one.
As Sonic suggests;

Get what wear you can from existing, then replace all four! I'm not sure that Avon are a brand worth having anyway?

I've no problem with Avon. Ran their winters on a CLS and was very impressed, and looked at their ZV7 as replacement on last car.

 

[Droverunner]

>>>just as bad worrying about the tread thicknesses between the older Avon tyre on the same axle as the new one.

Yes that's why I mentioned what did the OP consider a reasonable tread depth. I am tyre centric and if there are a mix of tyres on anything I buy and they are under 4mm I usually change the lot to start off properly.

 

[RhodieBill]

Well I disagree with Michelin's statement to a certain degree.

On Nokian Tyres they have two Warning Marks. One being the "Legal" Minimum Depth and another a "Recommended Wet Minimum Depth" shown as a Water Droplet Symbol. This being 3.5mm. As the Tyre wear the Numbers disappear.

See Video.

 

[Rob7seven]

A Police driver, (I met him socially, not in any official capacity), told me that as a matter of policy, tyres on their vehicles are replaced when they reach 4mm. The way he explained it, that sounded like a countrywide policy, not just the local force.

I don't do a big mileage these days, and tend to replace cars when they're out of warranty. That means that I've bought very few tyres over the years, but the Continentals on my C300 do seem to be wearing very quickly, the rears aren't going to reach 10,000, and as far as I can remember, all my previous tyres have managed about double that..