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Offline walchy01

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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #10 on: 22 February 2010, 16:38 »
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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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #11 on: 22 February 2010, 22:12 »
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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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #12 on: 22 February 2010, 23:32 »
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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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #13 on: 22 February 2010, 23:38 »
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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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #14 on: 24 February 2010, 22:25 »
Quote from: Khare on 22 February 2010, 23:38
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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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #15 on: 24 February 2010, 22:29 »
Quote from: dTEA on 24 February 2010, 22:25
Quote from: Khare on 22 February 2010, 23:38
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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Re: Tires, advice, experience and opinions
« Reply #16 on: 25 February 2010, 03:43 »
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:
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