I've done an online mobile tyre search via Halfords who supply and fit at your home for ALL 4 tyres and although i have a decent recognised brand now they have come up with a budget Chinese brand called Rovelo whose reviews are really good and cost £96 each. For a decent recognised brand im looking at £150 per corner.

I don't normally like a cheap tyre especially on a large SUV but would any of you opt for this Chinese make to save money?

Not a hope in hell's chance would I use Chinese ditchfinder's.

Cheers
Col

Personally, no.
The TDV8s should really be regarded as a performance car, they are deceptively quick.
Performance cars should only ever wear performance tyres.
I’ve walked away from RRS for sale because the previous owner put cheap tyres on, what else did they skimp on?
I bet alot of the reviews are for the brand of tyre - ie not specifically RRS or even large SUV drivers.
Reviews are subjective, mostly by jo bloggs with no real understanding of tyre technology, levels of grip etc.
Plus, please change all 4, so that the diffs etc are not over worked by mis matched tyres, I know some people don’t care but as an engineer it makes sense to me to not cause undue wear and tear for the sake of a few quid.

what ever tyres you fit - happy safe motoring.

2.5t of RRS needs decent rubber connecting it to the ground. The cheap tyres will work just fine when pottering around but objective testing routinely shows the budget tyres are way behind in important stuff like braking distances, etc..

For the sake of saving a couple of hundred quid once every couple of years, going with cheap tyres feels like a false saving considering their performance is less than the premium/semi-premium brands. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
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Cheap tyres on a RRS?

Why not disconnect your brakes too? I like my cars to stop when I tell them to

I also like them to stay on course round a corner - drifting is for track days.

I just paid £280 per corner for Pirelli Scorpion P Zero replacing OEM as fitted. If good enough or the professional designers and engineers that specified for this vehicle, they'll do for me.

I sleep real good too.

I wouldn’t cut that corner, well not on Chinese tyres made from wood anyway. I bought Michelin Pilot Sport SUV tyres a few years ago. They are fantastic. Balance beautifully and the car drives like how it should. You really do get what you pay for. Cheers,

Stuart.
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I'll try to balance this a bit.
Many years ago I bought a 1 year old Merc E class. It came with Bridegstone on the back and conti on the front. A year later it needed new tyres but cashflow was tricky so I decided to buy cheap tyres. I figured they'd last me 3 or 4 months, I'd just drive a little more carefully and then I'd pop a new set of contis on it.
A year later they needed changing and I realised they'd lasted just as well as the big brands, had no discernable difference in terms of ride, handling or grip. So I bought a second set. I swapped brands the next time as I found the V pattern noisy when worn, but never went back to big brands on that car which i took to 180,000 miles.

There's a lot of snobbery when it comes to tyres. For most people, if you did a blind test, few would be able to tell you what tyres they were driving on.

The problem, and I can't help here, is what happens when you suddenly need that 1/10th of an advantage. My last car was a Jag XFs so something of a performance car and consequently I ran it on the recommended Goodyear F1s. M62, winter morning and the van in front of me suddenly dived left, leaving me rapidly approaching the rear of a line of stationary traffic. I stood on ths brakes and managed to pull up in time (just) but how much was my better driving (leaving a sensible gap) and how much the tyres I'll never really know.
My RRS came on "Triangle" tyres. I was a bit horrified when I realised and planned to put Pirellis on ASAP but to be fair, so far at least, I'm really not having an issue with them. They're grippy and ride well enough. I'm sensing a slight intermittent drone from them but that could be in my head.

Most budget tyres use hand-me-down technology from the big brands, just one model later. So the grip you should have should be as good as, say a 2015 car when it was new and on premium rubber. Very few brands are really "ditch finders".
All I'd say is follow the letters. The reason I remain uncomfortable with the triangles is the C for wet grip. I generally look for A in that category and then from them, choose the quietest.
If funds permit, my next set with be Pirellis but a lot of that is really snobbery. I like the idea of the best on the best, but if funds are less available, there are plenty of mid-range brands I'd be happy enough on. 2021 L494 D300MHEV Autobiography
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Is there some snobbery? Yes, of course. Is there objective data that shows that the premium brands work better than the cheap ones? Yes. Do tyres with similar EU markings perform differently? Yes. Two tyres with a C rating, for example, will have different braking distances because the ratings are bands.

Some manufacturers will target the EU ratings - looking at tyre tests it's common to see a cheap tyre do well in the wet braking test but be rubbish elsewhere, where the premium tyres give decent performance across the board.

It's funny that many of us will buy cheap tyres because "we're never likely to need the extra performance such as emergency braking or doing an avoidance move" but will buy comprehensive insurance. If the risk of using cheap tyres "because the likelihood is low" then why bother with the better insurance because, after all, the likelihood you'll use it is also low.

If one chooses cheap tyres (or even performance tyres with particular strengths) then one needs to remember the weaknesses when driving. For most, just pootling around, it'll make little difference. But it's always the unusual situation that bites you.

It's worth remembering that some of the medium budget brands are owned by the premium brands. So you're getting the benefit of their knowledge and testing/development even if it's on a tyre that's a season behind in terms of outright performance. For example, Avon are owned by Cooper who are owned by Goodyear. Look at some of the Avon tyres and they're similar to Cooper's version. And both will benefit from Goodyear's R&D input over time, no doubt.

Where you can't rely on that is the Chinese manufacturers. They are catching up in terms of performance but they're very much set up for the Chinese market's requirements and those are different to European requirements. But the Chinese are expanding their R&D in order to produce tyres better suited to other markets, so will no doubt get better. BUt I certainly wouldn't fit Chinese ditch finders to a car of mine at the moment. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed