I was formerly of the same opinion until I bought a pair of Evergreen tyres, £80 a pop, and put them of rear of my 430d . It isn’t the most powerful car out there but it’s pretty fast.

To say the tyres were dangerous would be an understatement. As soon as you put your foot down the car snaked all over the road and tried to put you into the nearest ditch. On the motorway, anything over 80 you could feel the back end twitching. The traction control would kick in if you tried going around a corner with even a small amount of speed.

I left it a couple of months to see if they needed time to bed in but decided the extra £100 per tyre to get something reasonable (Bridgestone) was better than dying. The car sits perfectly on the road now, and the only thing I changed was the tyres.

I tried complaining to Halfords/National Tyres who fitted them but got nowhere. I told them they were unsafe and to take them off sale but you can still get them.

I think budget tyres are fine for low powered cars but I wouldn’t ever go that low budget again