Anyone got a spare OEM 225/40/18 Continental laying around for my vRS?

[candy_wagon]

Dudded a tyre recently with a nail put through the shoulder and now I need a replacement.

Research on here suggests that the OEM Continental Sport Contact 2's are not made any more and i can't track any down second hand in Melbourne (there is a full set at 70% available in Sydney on Ebay though).

My question id does anyone have a good condition tyre they are willing to part with in Melbourne? Or do they know where I might find one.

I could just grab another tyre of different brand/model etc but I have never been a fan of having different tyres on either end of the car. And besides, all the 3 remaining tyres are still in good nick.

[Martin]

I have four for sale on eBay (don't want to sell just one)

[k_rider]

Exact same thing happened to me - self tapper just in from the shoulder, so was not repairable. My local K-Mart tyre&auto managed to get hold of a replacement Conti SC2. Cost me a motza ($356 fitted) and took almost two weeks to come in, but like you, don't like the idea of different tyres.

[candy_wagon]

I have four for sale on eBay (don't want to sell just one)

I think yours are the ones I was just looking at. If I was in Sydney I might look at them, but really only need one tyre!

Thanks anyway Martin. Good luck with the sale.

[Tigger]

I would replace the two tyres at the same time (either front or rear) with two new ones. It is seriously better than a mis-match...Even if you get the same type of tyre, it is from a different batch and is of a different age...

Then keep the good one in the shed in case another goes....

Short term savings perhaps changing just one, but may not be the safest option .

Seriously mate, just replace the two at once.

Use a place that lets you do 24 months interest free if you need to space the repayments....

[brad]

+1 to what Tigger says.

i've just been pricing 235/40x18s for my BILs EOS.
Tempe Tyres (parallel imports I assume) has:
Pirelli P-Zero Nero $190
Pirelli P-Zero (the new one) $230
Michelin PS3 $230
CSC3 $290
CSC5 $290

I'd assume 225/40r18 would be similar - ish (although weirder things have happened).

There are some cheap MEL sellers if you look on eBay.

tirerack has CSC2 still for ~USD185 but freight will be around $200 for 1 tyre.

You could ship all 4 of Martins tyres down depot-depot with e-go for ~$40

[Martin]

Michelin PS3 $230

That's the pick of the bunch - really good tyre and really good price
Mine are wearing at just over 1mm per 10,000km - at that rate could get well over 50,000km out of them

[brad]

That's the pick of the bunch - really good tyre and really good price
Mine are wearing at just over 1mm per 10,000km - at that rate could get well over 50,000km out of them

Yes, I told the BIL they would be my choice. He was leaning towards the cheap Pirellis but I think (hope) I talked him out of them.

backstory:
BIL is a builder (one of the best in the shire IMO) & has no interest in cars besides getting from A-B in comfort. Him & my sister bought the EOS on impulse when they went looking at Golfs.
Tyres (CSC3) have never been rotated & at 24,000km / 2.5yrs the fronts are bald & the 40% worn rears sound like a bad wheel bearing as they have saw-toothed. McGraths at Sutho have never recomended a rotation at both services done so far. BIL went back to complain to McGraths & they say it's the owners responsibility to monitor tyre wear & not part of the normal maintenance process. As a gesture of goodwill they offered to replace the tyres with CSC3 at a special price of $550 EACH! I do remember advising them to drop by my place every 7500km & I'd rotate the tyres for them but I guess they didn't pay much attention because i'm a bit OCD on these things & the baby brother who's always been a bit thick .

[Martin]

As a gesture of goodwill they offered to replace the tyres with CSC3 at a special price of $550 EACH!

This is the sort of thing I really do take issue with - treating customers like morons
That certainly is a "special price" in no uncertain terms

As for the rest, you can take a horse to water but can't make him drink...

[safetyman]

I'm pretty sure I have one sucking up space in the shed.
But I'm in Sydney.
And it's one of the original tyres fitted to my car after my wife suffered a similar fate to yourself, not more than a few months after they discontinued the CSC2.
I opted for all four replacement to the cheaper, more common 235/40 size and threw the best remaining one in the boot with a full size wheel.
Replacing 4 worked out to be the same cost as replacing 2 of the OEM size.