Thanks for all the replies, some good information here.
So I've done some further research on the options people have mentioned here, and the only thing that's clear is, the more I looked into the various options, the further away from a decision I got!
For now I've decided to keep it to the same top 3, for various reasons. The Kumhos are the same price as the Hankooks (and I wasn't convinced they were any better), the Pirellis were even more expensive than the Continentals ($240 each), and the Toyo T1-R seems to get very contradictory feedback (some say they're awesome, some say they're awful).
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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva
I think Bridgestone has a 'buy 3, get the 4th free' promotion as well.
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I did see that, and that would have made up my mind for me. However, after lots of ringing around, it seems no one in the state (NSW) has any stock of this tyre in the size I need. Bridgestone says the next shipment is due first week of June - unfortunately the 'buy 3 get 1 free' promo finishes end of May, and annoyingly I can't lock in the promo pricing if the stock is not here, even if I want to pre-pay for the tyres! Doesn't make sense to me.
So at the moment I'm kinda back to where I started.
Oh - I did find an outfit selling parallel imports of the Bridgestone RE050A, at a significantly cheaper price, but I'm hesitant on buying them at the moment. My main concern is with the warranty and specs of the tyres (assuming Australian-spec RE050As may be different to other countries' versions).
Would people here have any advice for or against buying parallel import tyres?