{"id":315,"date":"2025-11-11T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/?p=315"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:23:41","slug":"michelin-pilot-sport-5-price-authorized-vs-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/en\/michelin-pilot-sport-5-price-authorized-vs-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Authorized Official vs Parallel Imported Michelin Pilot Sport 5 Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9513335314800507\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-large-font-size\">To purchase automotive tire, batteries and insurance in HK, <a href=\"http:\/\/wa.me\/85251130668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whatsapp Jimmy\u00a0\u202a+852\u00a05113\u00a00668<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorized Official Michelin in HK is another one that I seldom get to sell, with \ud83d\udcb0Pricing\ud83d\udcb0 again the issue.<br>Besides economies of scale\uff0calmost all retail stores sell Michelin tires. There is no way to market position in pricing. (Tyrehood, me, is never about low price for market positioning) <br><br>Michelin sole agent has a long history in Hong Kon\ud83c\udfec. Michelin has its office locate in HK to support, Michelin sole agent has never scared of parallel imported tire pricing.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/en\/distinguish-hong-kong-authorized-official-tire-vs-parallel-imported-tire\/#michelin-tire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to find out more about Michelin PS5 sizes, UTQG, EU tire label rating<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s dig deeper into Michelin PS5 pricing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\ude97 225\/40 R18 Michelin PS5 :<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Tyrehood Authorized official (Made in Thailand\/China)<\/td><td>$1120 &#8211; $1170\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tyrehood Parallel Imported (Made in Europe)<\/td><td>$1000 &#8211; $1070\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc2f  (made in ?)<\/td><td>$999\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc0d  (made in Europe)<\/td><td>$1270\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Goodyear agent online store<\/td><td>$1406 &#8211; $1480\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tiger-ps5-1024x526.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tiger-ps5-1024x526.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tiger-ps5-300x154.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tiger-ps5-768x395.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tiger-ps5.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Parallel Imported pricing for 18&#8243; and below is definitely the best pricing available. With its manufacture place in Europe, its hard to find any Authorized Official e.g. Continental, Bridgestone to compete with it. Afterall, it is made in Europe.<br><br>Possibly only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyrehood.com\/en\/brands\/kumho\/PS72.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kumho PS72<\/a> with its promotion can compete with the current PS5, in terms of pricing.<br>\uff08To remind once again that manufacturing places do affect tire performance\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\ude97 Tesla Model Y, 255\/45 R19 Pilot Sport 5 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Tyrehood Authorized Official<\/td><td>Not available<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tyrehood Parallel Imported (made in EU)<\/td><td>$1950 &#8211; $2050\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc2f (made in ?)<\/td><td>$2249\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc0d (made in China)<\/td><td>$2030\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Goodyear agent online store<\/td><td>Not available<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-tiger-ps5-1024x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-tiger-ps5-1024x533.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-tiger-ps5-300x156.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-tiger-ps5-768x400.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-tiger-ps5.jpeg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>R19 and above pricing is double of R18. It&#8217;s undoubted that many EV vehicle owners such as  Tesla Model Y\uff0cKIA EV6\uff0cBenz EQA\uff0c EQB\uff0cBMW ix1\uff0cix3 and more, which has never installed R19 before got shocked by such pricing when request Michelin quote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at R20 pricing as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\ude97 Tesla Model Y, 255\/40 R20 Pilot Sport 5<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Tyrehood Authorized Official (made in Thailand\/China)<\/td><td>$2200 &#8211; $2300\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tyrehood parallel imported (made in EU)<\/td><td>$2230 &#8211; $2400\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc2f <\/td><td>Not available<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc0d (made in China)<\/td><td>$2380\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Goodyear agent online store (made in Europe)<\/td><td>$2650 &#8211; $2790\/tyre<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pricing does not look like it increases drastically. However, the width of tire also affect tire price. e.g. 275\/45 R18 is definitely more expensive than 225\/40 R18. (possibly another 0.5 times more)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tyrehood.com\/articles\/en\/distinguish-hong-kong-authorized-official-tire-vs-parallel-imported-tire\/#michelin-tire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to find out the difference between Authorized Official and Parallel Imported Michelin tires<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To purchase automotive tire, batteries and insurance in HK, <a href=\"http:\/\/wa.me\/85251130668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whatsapp Jimmy\u00a0\u202a+852\u00a05113\u00a00668<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tyrehood.hk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Follow us on Tyrehood facebook page to get the latest automotive and insurance information <\/a>\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To purchase automotive tire, batteries and insurance in HK, whatsapp Jimmy\u00a0\u202a+852\u00a05113\u00a00668 Authorized Official Michelin in HK is another one that I seldom get to sell, with \ud83d\udcb0Pricing\ud83d\udcb0 again the issue.Besides economies of scale\uff0calmost all retail stores sell Michelin tires. There is no way to market position in pricing. (Tyrehood, me, is never about low price&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[87,91,101,89,366,95],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tire","tag-authorized-tires","tag-grey-market-tires","tag-michelin-tires","tag-parallel-imported-tires","tag-pilot-sport-5-authorized-official-price-vs-parallel-imported-price","tag-tire-buying-guide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michelin PS5: Authorized vs Parallel Import Price Shock<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why is parallel import Michelin PS5 so much cheaper, especially in R18? 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