Best tyres available???

[jim cupra 205]

tyres a pain

my bf good rich have done 9000 now and stilll have 5mm left on them. my car needs the wheel alignment checked every 6-8 weeks it seems to go out very easily maybe its a fault with them most of my driving is on motorways. im sure the toyo's are very good but do take a look at the bf goodrich they are great value for money and they stick to the road wet or dry

 

[muddyboots]

my car needs the wheel alignment checked every 6-8 weeks it seems to go out very easily maybe its a fault with them most of my driving is on motorways.

If you've a Mk4 Ibiza, might be worth getting your front lower suspension bushes checked, they are a common failure - you shouldn't need to be getting alignment checked that often especially if you drive on smooth roads most of the time, it suggests something is worn.

 

[jim cupra 205]

had the bushes checked at agnew seat they said they were ok had to get the rear struts and bump stops replaced recently. i am putting it down to the lovely states our roads are and the fact the suspension would knock your teeth out its that hard

 

[davels]

ended up getting 4 Kumho SPT KU31's fitted and balanced today for £250
they've got great reviews from what i can see http://www.1010tires.com/tirereviews/Kumho_Ecsta_SPT_(KU31)_tire_reviews.html just google em yourself!
My first impresions are... bloody hell there sooo much better than the turenza's, road noise at 80 is like the bridgestones at 30. Grip on a cold damp day like today well i couldn't fault them. very impressed the only trouble is i was told my tracking is miles out at the front because the olds tyres were uneven, so i'll have to pay another £50 for the local 4 wheel tracking specialist to do there stuff

 

[Nick_J]

Anyone tried Avon ZX3's?

Hi

Had a mk2 golf and my dad has a C max, had Avon zx3's fitted on both

Seemed to give a massive amount of grip on both, (had 16's on the golf) and had a nice tread pattern, seemed to give fairly long life even though driven hard.

Any comments would be useful!

Got a 130 TDI FR will need to be findin some tyres with solid edges to compensate for lots of roundabouts!


Cheers

 

[keefy]

ended up getting 4 Kumho SPT KU31's fitted and balanced today for £250
they've got great reviews from what i can see http://www.1010tires.com/tirereviews/Kumho_Ecsta_SPT_(KU31)_tire_reviews.html just google em yourself!
My first impresions are... bloody hell there sooo much better than the turenza's, road noise at 80 is like the bridgestones at 30. Grip on a cold damp day like today well i couldn't fault them. very impressed the only trouble is i was told my tracking is miles out at the front because the olds tyres were uneven, so i'll have to pay another £50 for the local 4 wheel tracking specialist to do there stuff

Yep, think I mentioned these above. Really good tyres. Kumho seem to be a little known brand who are going places. I had them on my Fiesta and they were really dependable. Give loads of confidence in the wet.
That's a comparable price to mytyres - they are £50.60 on there for 205/45/16's and then you need to get them fitted.
I'll be replacing mine with either these or the Vredestein Sportrac's.......or the Marangoni Zeta Linea if I can find out any info on how good they are. They look the absolute mutts.

 

[mexicorich]

Just go down to 195/45 x 16 and you can have Toyo Proxes T1-R for even less!

 

[davels]

Hi

Had a mk2 golf and my dad has a C max, had Avon zx3's fitted on both

Seemed to give a massive amount of grip on both, (had 16's on the golf) and had a nice tread pattern, seemed to give fairly long life even though driven hard.

Any comments would be useful!

Got a 130 TDI FR will need to be findin some tyres with solid edges to compensate for lots of roundabouts!


Cheers

A guy who buys his tyres from the place i went nearly blitzed his can on avon's cos they just could'nt handle any power (although his was in a supercharged corvette... on avon's cheapscate )
but the kuhmos i have are EL rated for extra load at speed

 

[jim cupra 205]

hi davels the bf goodrich give good grip wet or dry. took my car in for another allignment its now been discovered that the castor allicnment is out i rang seat yesterday and was told to bring it in today so i drove 30 miles only to find out they can do nothing until the 8th of jan im not happy at all.

 

[Nick_J]

A guy who buys his tyres from the place i went nearly blitzed his can on avon's cos they just could'nt handle any power (although his was in a supercharged corvette... on avon's cheapscate )
but the kuhmos i have are EL rated for extra load at speed

Hi ok cheers

My dads got 280nm torque i beleive, or somethin close (tdci) so mayb its cos the corvette was rwd with way too much power through them...
The grip they used to give on my golf was amazing, so just wondered what other people thought

Cheers

 

[davels]

yeah i know what your saying mate, wasn't having a go at the avons, the corvette is a slightly differant league to what we're talking about here power and torque wise lol
but my point was that he switched to kuhmo's and never changed back, he was that happy with em. i not saying there are not better tyres out there but for the price i'm really impressed

 

[Nick_J]

yeh kool, might give the kuhmo's a go next time i need some!

Cheers mate

 

[Trumpetman21]

i have a cupra tdi the p zeros only lasted 7,000 miles i am using bf goodrich g force they are £55 each and grip amazingly wet or dry

Jesus H!

I have done nearly 18000 miles now and am still on the original set of P zero nero's....although I must admit did get them back-to-fronted on it's 10000 mile service....

 

[gorebrush]

Well here's the thing.

I can get Toyo Proxes T1R for £70 per tyre
or
Kumho KU31 for £62 per tyre

What to go for?

Dont fancy Pirelli's again though.

 

[gorebrush]

Just ordered two Toyo Proxes T1R for £140 fitted.

flippin' bargain

 

[davels]

personal preferance mate i suppose, but i got an extra two tyres for an extra £100 fitted, £250 all in

 

[Triple D]

I have gone through 3 sets of tyres nearly in 23k miles almost. The first set of Dunlops lasted me all of about 7k miles, were extreamly **** in the wet, and that was with normal power, i then had a set of toyo proxis t1s i think they were in 215/40/17's that i got for £400 along with a set of Ibiza cupra 17's, they lasted maybe 6k miles after switching front to back at 3k miles. During this time though i had had a hybrid turbo fitted so was running over 200 bhp and over 300ftlb torque. I then got some bridgestone patenzas (admittably they were probably the **** ones) but in the dry they were good, but the side walls were very very soft, so took them off very quickly. I then got some rs6 wheels off sisson for £185 along with 3 nearly new tyres, so just put a spare bridstone patenza on it and the side walls are very good on the tyres that they had on it, the side walls have lasted, and have done about 8k miles on the front ones, without swapping them to the back.

 

[davels]

where you originally running turenzas or patenzas, turenza's are good in the dry but shocking in the cold or wet. patanza's are supposed to be very good all round

 

[Triple D]

yeah had turenzas to begin with when i got the car brand new, then changed to patenzas as they were supposed to be good, apparently there is a few different types of compound patenzas, so may have possibly got the shitter ones.

 

[davels]

have you got EL rated wall on your potenzas then