After they had hunted for so long and finally located the correct tyres for the Toyota, I had a feeling they maybe rather expensive. Nope, for the two tyres fitted, the final cost was 320 leva. Although my tyres are on the rather large size, they cost less than my friends tyres which were smaller than mine!
The guys who fitted the tyres had good sense of humour and the lady owner of the shop was very jovial.
When the tyres were being fitted, there was a problem trying to get the air to blow up the tyre, after some jiggling around the tyres were on the rims and speedily on the car.
I had requested they put the two tyres from the back onto the front and the new tyres onto the back, which they did at no extra cost!
They put back my tools neatly into the back of the Jeep and with a toot toot, we were off motoring again with our lovely chunky tyres!
Now we get waved at each time we pass the tyre shop!
Highly recommended shop on the outskirts of Kardjali Bulgaria, howevers since troubles i cannot in fairness recommend the tyre shop, i can get a better tyre a Toyo for a tenner or a remould defect one for 150 leva from there
As you can see, our old tyres were rather worn, the tracking was out before we left the UK, we had the car tracked but by then the tyres had worn on the outer edge and looking rather illegal! The new tyres are very chunky with lots of tread left in them!
The whole work force was out to fit the new tyres
However these 90% Offroad tyres do not perform well on the road, in wet conditions and in snow conditions the were next to useless as the huge truck skated around unable to get a grip on the road!
As a female driver, with zero knowledge of tyres and tyre treads required for certain driving conditions, I was unaware these were remoulds of the worse possible dangerous kind.
I have since found a little one man band who has sold me Toyo all country tyres, they are worn, he informed me they are worn and should be replaced soon, however these Toyo's have got me and my Toyota 4x4 back on the road motoring and the car is motoring extremely well and has a grip on things now!
Beautiful Bulgarian mountain ranges offering winter ski holidays - fantastic green untouched countryside, forests of trees still standing! The areas I intend to visit include Sofia Povdiv and Stara Zagora. I will be travelling mainly south and near to the Rhodopi mountains on this trip to beautiful Bulgaria
Watch this site for some fantastic scenic photos from this historic country brimming full of history and scenic Bulgarian beauty ~ Welcome to Whats on Bulgaria Holidays 2007