Experimenting with tyres is a fascinating, if expensive, hobby - a bit like choosing your favourite beer.
not as expensive as women
Experimenting with tyres is a fascinating, if expensive, hobby - a bit like choosing your favourite beer.
not as expensive as women
And even more expensive if you decide to change to a different one.
Currently on potenza,good for 2more seasons.
Friend of mine recomends me toyo proxes sport s1.any experience with toyo?
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Been living with the Dunlop 2's now for less than a year. Very impressed at first but the goldilocks zone seemed to fade quickly. Found them to wear quickly as I'm sure I've done less than 10000 miles since fitting front ones. Alas now I find myself salivating over the talk of the Michelin 4's. My trouble is my rear Dunlops are still in fine condition (about 7-8 mil of tred left) I should be OK to put the Michelins on the front with the Dunlops on the rear right? They are both high performance tyres after all. And no I do not rotate my tyres I dont have the time inclination or equipment to do so. Not yet at least. Probably gonna go ahead and do this anyway but interested in your opinions.
Which tyres are the quietest? I drive like a granny and don't like my afternoon nap disturbed.
Anything soft then , beware of wear though, you want to kinda balance out wear and noise and grip which can be a ball ache.
For me, PS4S are simply to unviable in terms of speed index. Unless anyone can offer me a better suggestion than the Dunlop SportMaxx RT 2 for all round performance, wear, dry/wet grip and handling with a good index, im booking those in for addition asap , i know a lot of it is preference but, they are highly recommended so far.
Which size tyre are you fitting to yours out of interest? It would be strange for Michelin to produce a speed rating lower than the Dunlops in the same size, when they are both 'performance' tyres.
Dunlop Sport Maxx RT2 seem to be ones for the quiet life at 68 dB.
Btw can anyone explain how decibels work?
Thanks for your suggestion - Not! I have opened Pandora's can of worms and my head hurts!
I've learnt from Wikipedia that there are two decibel systems, one used in electronics to measure power amplification where 10 dB equates to 10 times the power and 3 dB approximates to twice the power.
Noise measurements, however, use the second system ('Field' or 'Amplitude') where 20 dB equates to 10 times as loud and 6 dB approximates to twice as loud.
The tyres I'm considering vary from 68 dB to 72 dB which are about one and a half times louder.
This satisfies my sense of 'rightness' in terms of what tyres are made of (rubber) and what they do (roll around) and that there is a significant but not huge difference in noise levels.