Michelin PS2 vs. Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric?

[smartypants]

Still think its Bull---- that testing of tyres its what suiets the car??

And your driving style, and your personal opinions/gripes

[robern2]

Why dont we host a poll to see who drives with which tyre ?

[Saint Steve]

Me personally i would avoid the  Michelin Pilot Exalto PE2's and Dunlop Sp Sportmax, due to these tyre "deforming" in shape, Tyre tread then starts to mis-shape and become Very noisey on the road.

For all round Value, i will have to say go for Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta, at £85-£90 each, they perform aswell as the More expensive Ps2's for half the money, and Recent Reviews have given this tyre on the GTi a very good report.

Im running 2 brand ones on the front on my edition30 stage 1, and cant get them to loose grip!!!!!

I shall be buying 2 more for the rear in the coming months.

If you look at my Sig pic, the front tyres are Vredesteins.

I have some photos of tyre close ups here...... REPLY 86

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8139.75

[Golf R]

Me personally i would avoid the  Michelin Pilot Exalto PE2's and Dunlop Sp Sportmax, due to these tyre "deforming" in shape, Tyre tread then starts to mis-shape and become Very noisey on the road.

For all round Value, i will have to say go for Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta, at £85-£90 each, they perform aswell as the Most expensive Ps2's for half the money, and Recent Reviews have given this tyre on the GTi a very good report.

Im running 2 brand ones on the front on my edition30 stage 1, and cant get them to loose grip!!!!!

That's the best place to put them.  These people who tell you off for putting new tyres on the front have never owned a car with different sized wheels front and back (like a Porsche).

[R32.]

These are all summer tyres for road temperatures above 6C

[R32.]

ie not winter tyres

[Chris MKV]

Why do people criticise the pirelli tyre so much?

This is a serious question as they are what came on my car so I have nothing  to compare them to.  Whilst ther ehave been negative post no one has really explained why they think they are bad.

[Ed30DSG]

Are you saying that you get 29000 out of GY front tyre's

The previous owner of my car squeezed 32k out of a set of mich exaltos on the front and they still had 3mm left on them!

[TagnuT]

Like I have always said, and has also been confirmed by the likes of Evo, the Goodyear F1 Asymmetric has some serious flaws - which verge on the dangerous.   If an individual wishes to 'put up' with those flaws, then fine - but when peeps ask for advice, I think it is vital that the WHOLE TRUTH is aired, especially when tyres have a potentially dangerous flaw, which is then acknowledged by Goodyear, but who then do fcuk all about resolving the issues. 

Can someone point me in the direction of this EVO article about the serious flaws in the F1 Assymetrics?

[Smoothcall]

Like I have always said, and has also been confirmed by the likes of Evo, the Goodyear F1 Asymmetric has some serious flaws - which verge on the dangerous.   If an individual wishes to 'put up' with those flaws, then fine - but when peeps ask for advice, I think it is vital that the WHOLE TRUTH is aired, especially when tyres have a potentially dangerous flaw, which is then acknowledged by Goodyear, but who then do fcuk all about resolving the issues. 

Can someone point me in the direction of this EVO article about the serious flaws in the F1 Assymetrics?

There are no serious flaws mentioned by Evo regarding the F1 Assym in the tyre test they ran in 2007.

Infact, it won that test.

Here is the quote from the results page:

A decisive win for the new Goodyear, with more table-topping performances than any other tyre. Better still, those wins came in the wet and the dry objective tests, and subjectively it was voted best tyre on the dry handling course. “The steering feels clean, direct and positive” said Bovingdon, “and there’s plenty of adjustability and agility”. He praised the wet handling abilities too: “Very neutral – not a single correction required”. On the road it was a little noisy but Barker said it had “direct steering and a softly predictive feel”. And it comes in at a good price too.