Had a nail rip trough my tyre today when I was miles away from home. Had to get what was available at short notice to get back. Ended up with a Falken. Any good? (bit late now i know, but may have to get another "for the sake of balance", and mine need replacing soon anyway)

I was on business in Germany last month & happened to notice the brand new rental VW had Falken Tyres fitted, if VW fit them as standard they can not be bad

Thanks. Don't like to cross brand, so will take the plunge and get the other 3 done. Winters will be getting fitted soon (well it is England)

Glad you managed to get hold of some Falkens. I ordered some online from Halfords a few weeks ago having looked at the ratings which are comparable with some Michelins. They were on offer and the price was already pretty good. I turned up a week later to have them fitted & not only had they not got them they said that they didn't stock them & couldn't get hold of them either! They'd still managed to take payment when I ordered them & took 8 days to refund me. Moral of the story - use a proper supplier!. Now got Michelin Latitudes which were £100 more for a set. Complaint to Halfords not replied to after 4 weeks & 2 chasers by the way

Ordered new Falkens at 9.00 this morning. Delivered to fitters at 1.30. Drove off at 3.30 all fiited balanced. Looked at Halfords, but don't trust them to pump my tyres up

I agree re Halfords ! Got my Michelins from a local independent supplier & feel better for supporting the local tradesman

I had falkens on my rav 4 and did over 70k on one set i was very impressed with them

They're on now so we'll see how they go. But at least I'm 100% legal again

Were they standard FL2 tyre size, Falken website doesn't recognise the sizes

Yeh
235 65 17. Website isn't that good though. Lots of marketing blurb.

The website is rubbish, found them now via 'blackcircle'

Shop around. Got mine for £115 a corner balanced etc. Apparently they make tyres for Dunlop and Goodyear, and their High performance tyres are well though of in racing circles. Don't know what they'll be like off road, but they're supposed to be a 4x4 tyre.

I had Falkens on my X3 when I part-ex'd it for my FL2 in January.

They were 'proper' 4x4 tyres, according to the fitter, were a pretty good price and seemed excellent tyres. I was very happy with them.