reactor_sa
Executive Member
Hey guys,
Earlier this year I had four Continental Sport Contact 3 fitted. From day 1 I've had vibrations in the steering and through the car. I've been back to the ContiPartner where they were fitted, and I've been to TigerWheel many times too; they all balance the wheels 100% on the machine (0:0) but on the car at 100kph the vibrations start, at 120kph I wonder if the wheels are going to vibrate right off the car. I've done 8 000km on the tyres and for months I've been battling to get this problem sorted. Yesterday I had the car at Continental Customer Services in Jet Park and they said only 1 tyre was bouncing, they had it changed but still the problem is exactly the same. I've had the mags checked at Wheel Collision centre and they are not buckled. Continental now says I must get the vehicle manufacturer to test the car with a different set of wheels.
Is there anything I can do to get them to refund me for the tyres so I can go back to Yokohama? I've never had any problems with the two full sets of Yokohama before this set of Continentals.
Have you had any problems with Continental tyres?
[update] The car is going to Ford for its 90 000km service tomorrow, I will ask them if they can please check the wheels on another car or another set of wheels on my car, but I'm not sure what they are going to say. Maybe they've had many complaints from customers using Continental.
The sub-code of the tyres are MO (recommended for Mercedes), the one that was replaced yesterday is MOL (fitted to BMW). I'm guessing the tyres would be fine on those german cars with much better suspension compensation, but on my Ford Focus they are very lousy tyres.
Earlier this year I had four Continental Sport Contact 3 fitted. From day 1 I've had vibrations in the steering and through the car. I've been back to the ContiPartner where they were fitted, and I've been to TigerWheel many times too; they all balance the wheels 100% on the machine (0:0) but on the car at 100kph the vibrations start, at 120kph I wonder if the wheels are going to vibrate right off the car. I've done 8 000km on the tyres and for months I've been battling to get this problem sorted. Yesterday I had the car at Continental Customer Services in Jet Park and they said only 1 tyre was bouncing, they had it changed but still the problem is exactly the same. I've had the mags checked at Wheel Collision centre and they are not buckled. Continental now says I must get the vehicle manufacturer to test the car with a different set of wheels.
Is there anything I can do to get them to refund me for the tyres so I can go back to Yokohama? I've never had any problems with the two full sets of Yokohama before this set of Continentals.
Have you had any problems with Continental tyres?
[update] The car is going to Ford for its 90 000km service tomorrow, I will ask them if they can please check the wheels on another car or another set of wheels on my car, but I'm not sure what they are going to say. Maybe they've had many complaints from customers using Continental.
The sub-code of the tyres are MO (recommended for Mercedes), the one that was replaced yesterday is MOL (fitted to BMW). I'm guessing the tyres would be fine on those german cars with much better suspension compensation, but on my Ford Focus they are very lousy tyres.
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