Roll up Roll up = get them while the UK currency is worth a pitance

Hi

Just a little heads up:-

Because a very small majority of the population of the UK are hell bent on ruining our economy, on the back of advice given by a couple of foolish politicians that have since gone to ground, the UK£ is now cheap as chips. as a result so are my tyres (for now)

Ferrari Tyres

I would suggest i am going to have to do something soon, but for now they are a snip

 

Not to get P&R but, since YOU introduced it, a majority with over a 70% voter turnout is a substantial statement even with 50% + 1 vote and the actual majority was much larger than that. The people have spoken and I'm sure that the increased foreign sales volume will work out just fine for you.

A pessimist sees a problem in every opportunity, an optimist sees an opportunity in every problem.

 

Remember the Michelin tyres are made in the EU, then shipped to the UK. The weak pound makes the stock that's currently in the UK cheap(er), but the replacement stock will cost more because of the weak pound, and that will be passed on to consumers.

 

I see they also have a 225 70 R15. Anyone run this slightly wider tire, I'm thinking it might look a little better than the 215?

 

Only to consumers paying in GBP. The Euro is pretty low against the USD right now compared to where it was a couple of years ago.

Still, the arbitrage between the price from the OP in GBP and Coker Tire here in the U.S. might be pretty good since the GBP is -10% since before the vote.

(240VR415)

Coker Price $459

OP Price GBP 289 = USD 376 @ $1.30

OP Price before vote @ $1.45 = $419

As I said, free markets being what they are, the OP should sell out his current inventory and his GBP revenues will benefit. His next batch from France will cost him and his UK customers more.

 

Yeah, plus Coker charges shipping & Longstone ships to the US for free One would be crazy not to buy from Longstone now

The rear tire set-up is most critical, clearance-wise. My 240 TRX's are about the thickness of an index finger away from the inner-upper wheel well lip @ the point where the sidewall tread ends @ static height (just sitting' there, parked), I suspect the 215's are about an inch away @ that point (definitely verify with your existing).
I think the 225/70R-15's would work fine, I say go for it! The increase in the overall diameter is only about 2%…no big deal.

 

Maybe stating the obvious... but we're mixing metric/TRX sizing and "standard" sizing. The wheels are not compatible with both tires. To run the 225/70-15's you'll need new wheels if you have TRX wheels.

 

I know that Series 2 & 412 cars have the newer TRX wheel, I was merely stating that a 240 section width tire fits in the 400i wheel well, so why not upsize the tire (the OP has 15" wheels) from 215's to 225's
235's would even be better & closer to the width of the TRX's.

 

You mean most of the voting public ... The majority

 

$347 each given today's exchange rate.

Oh, and this . . .
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The pound will get a ehole lot cheaper! Still too high. That said its drop may prove the doomsayer wrong by boisting uk trades.

 

I thyink it was 52% out and 48% out.

i think that is pretty close

 

If anyone knows of GTS with chairs and flares in UK, please let me know.

 

It is/was small, yes.
But what gives you the idea that it will destroy your economy? I see many negatives for the EU. For the UK, you might be surprised in a positive way.
My brother was in London a few months ago. He said he would never go again because it was too expensive. And he is a big spender medical specialist... So the cheaper pound might well help there.
The Ferrari hobby is bound to become a bit more expensive in the short run though so I understand the annoyance.

 

Had a great experience ordering from Longstone. Really helpful customer service. The tires arrived very quickly and date-coded within a month of purchase. Dougal and the rest of his team are old school in the best sense of the phrase. Many thanks!

 

So true......

 

Dear Dougal of Longstone Tyres,

Some observations:

1. The majority of Britons voted to leave the EU because they were sick and tired of having unaccountable politicians in Belgium telling them what to do. You may not agree with that result, but that's it in a nutshell.
2. No one, including you, has any way of knowing if Brexit will ruin the British economy. It may actually improve the UKs economy, or not. No one can predict the future.
3. As a business owner myself, I go out of my way not to offend my customers by complaining about a particular politician or outcome of elections because if I do, they may very well decide to go elsewhere. I mean, you sell lovely tires (sorry, tyres), but if I need a new set of XWXs for my Ghibli or SM, I now want to look elsewhere because you have chosen to wear your politics on your sleeve instead of simply plugging your awesome product.
4. Chin up; stiff upper lip old boy, you may be pleasantly surprised how things turn out!
5. Nigel Farage is articulate, witty, in possession of the facts, and most annoyingly; correct.
6. Rule Britannia!

 

Concerning Brexit, I found this article in Finacial Times quite enlightening:
"Brexit: a coup by one set of public schoolboys against another"
Brexit: a coup by one set of public schoolboys against another - FT.com

 

Responding to each of your points in the order you raised them:

1.The UK population is circa 65m. 17.4m voted to leave, 16.1m to stay .+/- 31m members of the UK population did not vote, either because they can't, probably due to age or nationality, or because they didn't bother. Turnout was 72%, which is quite high for us.

Prior to the referendum the majority of UK voters had no particular unprompted view of EU politicians in regular opinion polling, the EU is never in the top items on unprompted lists of the most important issues. People are very unhappy with UK politicians though. There is also a whiff of sulphur around the anti-immigration sentiments that are surfacing across the world, including in the UK.

2. Well that's not really true either. It's like saying that Doctors don't know which patients will die and when they will die. It utterly misses the point. The overwhelming consensus amongst people who actually do the hard studying (economists and political economists), is that this is, at best, a significant shock to the global economy that will reduce short term global growth, and, at worst, a retrograde step of pure folly that could destabilise Europe. (Remember the EU was set up to stop wars, not as a free trade area)

3. As a lover of free speech, your offense is regrettable, but no more than that. If I bought my cars based on politics I would never have owned a car built by the convicted war criminal Ferdinand Porsche, but I did, and I lived in Israel for a while too. I try not to conflate trade and politics, but each to their own.

I too own a business, but what relevance that has to the validity of my argument or yours, I have no idea. I would suggest that its likely to cause bias not insight, but I am a fan of Daniel Kahneman, so it could be just my own bias. Argh circularity of logic....

4. Patronising my fellow countrymen is fine, we can live with it - mainly due to a long history of self deprecation and a lack of choice.

5. Mr Farage is an uneducated trader who is sometimes fun, sometimes charismatic but rarely in possession of the facts, and anyway he's now gone. Those who believe they know that they are correct, have forgotten that the best level of truth we ever get to is to be optimistic that we are not wholly incorrect. It's just how science works, sorry.

6. Thank you for your encouragement to the British people, we are thrilled to have your support. As you live in a place named after one of our queens and are conversing in a language that came from these isles, you obviously know that once we did!

Good luck with your own elections, the world is watching with fear and bemusement.

 

Hmmm - the musings of an ex-pat who did not have a vote and clearly has a chip on his shoulder about his time at Oxford in a magazine full of articles by Remainers in an industry full of Remainers who still can't bear to have lost

I'll go now before this threads gets moved over to the Politics zone

 

+1
More foreign property investors are swooping in while £Sterling is favourable.

 

Shame, but that's not true either. Three large property funds in London have already stopped allowing withdrawals because they are unable to get any liquidity in the assets they hold, not a sign of anyone swooping anywhere.

 

There is an under supply of housing stock in London specifically. We have witnessed a massive surge in Chinese buying up parts of East London and Docklands, with many actually choosing to live in the area themselves. The Chinese are out-bidding indigenous citizens on most of the new builds in said areas.

 

Interesting, MAYBE, but given that this is the Dino section, I haven't seen any Chinese swooping in to buy Dinos, regardless of whether the Dinos are located in the UK or elsewhere. Heck - they don't seem to have much interest in anything other than the most recent Ferraris.

So, getting back to TYRES, I decided that it made much more $$$ sense to buy my XWXs from Longstone and Dougal rather than pay the ridiculous prices Coker charges for the same, and this was before Brexit. Longstone was much less expensive than Coker (including shipping and all related costs), and they arrived amazingly fast.