Mile crunching Tyres???

[sockpuppet]

I have 225 / 45 / R17 Pirelli P6000s on all 4 corners at the moment.
I need to replace the fronts and need a long lasting tyre as I do a fair bit of mileage.
I have found Continental Sport Contacts at £100 a piece and these are rated as having a long life and good handling. Anyone running these?
Opinions/Alternatives?

 

[jonjay]

Falken 452s will give you good 15,000 or more if your just motorway driving. Unclefester on here who has a "heavy" right foot got 12k from his so thats pretty good going. They are very comparable in grip to the leading performance tyres. In fact I prefer them in the dry to Goodyear Eagle F1s. Best bit of all, £61 quid off camskill.

 

[glynnd]

Vredestein ultrac seem good for 12k+
Glynn

 

[sockpuppet]

I've done over 20000 on the P6000's and there is still a good bit of tread on the back tires!

I was kind of hoping for 30000 - 40000 off the continentals am I in dreamland?

 

[glynnd]

I recently changed to 18" wheels. The original alloys have uniroyal rainsports which were on the rear. They have covered 25k and still have 5mm on so you should get 40k on the pirelli's at the rear.
Glynn

 

[Jayt]

i had a set of continentals on my focus when i got it great wearing tyre but my god they were dangerous, in the wet the were slippy and very very little grip and they were just ok in the dry, i wouldnt recommend them at all.

 

[cupra fan]

michelin energy tyre's have amazing long life!
on the side of the tyre, is a number - gives the wear rate of a tyre!
higher the number the longer they last. Michelin energy 420 odd
toyo's tr1 - 260 (lower the number, in theory more grip - softer compound)

 

[healy6660]

just changed one of the rear Avon ZZ1's on the back of the tolly
31K and still legal
unfortunately the bloody big nail isn't standard, but the other side still has 2.5 mil left and tons of grip wet or dry(right thru the shoulder or I would have had it repaired)
they are directional so watch the herbert putting them on, or at least make sure he puts the right wheel on the right side. prat!!

 

[JamesL]

^^ that happened to my dad once at a BMW garage. Turned out they not only fitted directional tyres the wrong way round, but had fitted the wrong tyres then put the wheels on wrong. Hope someone got sacked over that! Thankfully a kind white man van told us on the motorway that he´d just seen a wheel bolt fall out onto the motorway, and that on 2 of the wheels we just had 2 bolts holding the wheel on

 

[oldman]

continental contisport are good
had mine for near 35k on the back, now on falken fk452

 

[sockpuppet]

I ended up getting the Falken FK452's as they got a reasonable overall rating for wear and grip in all the reviews I read online.
They were also quite well priced at £79 a tyre.