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General => General discussion => Topic started by: golf-sib on 18 February 2010, 18:40
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Basically I have norrowed my choice down to several tires. I currently have some s306 toyo which are :sick:, my wheels are 225/45 17w. I am after good grip but would like to get 9k at least out of them in terms of milage, looking to spend about £70-£75 per tire. I have read several reviews and here's the tires I narrowed it too:
- Eagle F1 Assymetric (from reviews best grip or so I've read and heard from friends)
- Falken FK452 (from reviews only they don't seem as grippy but have a higher life expectancy than the eagles, cheapest option too)
- Toyo T1R (from reviews on them don't seem great to either above)
But since you can't trust everything you read on the internet I want to hear your ups, downs and recommendations from experience and help me decide, if not recommend other alternatives.
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A lot of tyres vary depending on what size they are. I run T1R's in 195/50 R15 and rate them very highly as a good dry and wet tyre.
Nick
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A lot of tyres vary depending on what size they are. I run T1R's in 195/50 R15 and rate them very highly as a good dry and wet tyre.
Nick
same size and tyre as me and I can definitely say they are VERY good, they do wear quite fast though.
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I ran the Falkens for a while on a mk3, seemed ok for the money.
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A lot of tyres vary depending on what size they are. I run T1R's in 195/50 R15 and rate them very highly as a good dry and wet tyre.
Nick
same size and tyre as me and I can definitely say they are VERY good, they do wear quite fast though.
I've got a pair in 195/45/16 on the rear and are still looking at a few thousand miles, been on a year now. :afro: I'll be buying them again.
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Dont buy Nexen they are crud end of.
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A lot of tyres vary depending on what size they are. I run T1R's in 195/50 R15 and rate them very highly as a good dry and wet tyre.
Nick
same size and tyre as me and I can definitely say they are VERY good, they do wear quite fast though.
I also have these and same size, I've only had fast hatches and have had many tyres and these have got to be best. I paid £130 for 4 tyres from ebay. At that price it's stupid not to get them. Great wet grip too
I'l be trying the toyo 888's in the summer :grin:
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Ive got falken ze 912's on my mk2 and im impressed by them so far bearing in mind they are 195-40-16's stretched over 8" rims so they probably arnt performing as well as they could, but still very impressed by them. :smiley:
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Has anyone used any of the Hankook Tyres at all?
I am thinking primarily on a MkV as I will need some tyres soon.
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Goodyear FTW. Wear is slightly better and not as odd at the limits as the toyos...dont rate Falkens and never have....just too soft...
After fitting the Goodyears over the standard Continental 2's the difference was obvious, and do not touch Dunlops whatever you do.
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Pirelli P6000 are around £160 on black cirle tyres, £40 quid a tyre for Pirelli's seemed cheap to me, would expect you will get good grip and service out of these.
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Not a bad tyre for the price and they last a good while...only good in the smaller sizes imo 15x205 max
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I've just bought some anniversary wheels (BBS RXII ??) and was wondering if a 195/45/16 would be ok on them as opposed to a 205/45/16?
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I had pirelli P6000's in the mk2 and have to say, they were pretty good. Nothing amazing in the wet, but they gripped the road reasonably well. In the dry they were pretty good, and wear...well...what wear? I sold the car with all 4 tyres looking like new with over 7mm thread left and the tyres had done over 7000 miles of hard driving!
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I had pirelli P6000's in the mk2 and have to say, they were pretty good. Nothing amazing in the wet, but they gripped the road reasonably well. In the dry they were pretty good, and wear...well...what wear? I sold the car with all 4 tyres looking like new with over 7mm thread left and the tyres had done over 7000 miles of hard driving!
about right! Proper hardcore tyres! Bit for me is that they were still pretty predictable in the wet...not great but you knew what they were doing...progressively.
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I had pirelli P6000's in the mk2 and have to say, they were pretty good. Nothing amazing in the wet, but they gripped the road reasonably well. In the dry they were pretty good, and wear...well...what wear? I sold the car with all 4 tyres looking like new with over 7mm thread left and the tyres had done over 7000 miles of hard driving!
about right! Proper hardcore tyres! Bit for me is that they were still pretty predictable in the wet...not great but you knew what they were doing...progressively.
yup, bit of understeer if you threw it at a roundabout in the wet, but controllable and as you say, predictable.
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I run goodyear eagle F1's on my mk1.
3000 miles into the tyres life i had a flat at the front when i drove onto a bracket i left laying on the floor of my garage, replaced it with an new tyre and the treads werent that bad on the old compared to the new once compared :smiley:
so im all for goodyear :smiley: