Unofficial Tyre Thread

Akagi · 19 Aug 2020 at 00:45

Need a set of 205 50 15's. Any of the deals/offers people were discussing still active?

If not I'll just get a set of NS2-R 180 compound's from eBay for £238 delivered.

e; actually scratch that I need to put some scrap tyres on to figure out fitment etc before choosing a size... As you were lads!

238 delivered for a set of 15" NS2R's is good though if anyone needs some. £20 per tyre cheaper than normal.

Jony27 · 22 Aug 2020 at 19:19

What are the complications with running 225/40/18 instead of 235/40/18?
It's for the front and wheel size is 18x8J ET20

VaderDSL · 22 Aug 2020 at 19:22

This site is pretty good at showing differences for tyre/wheel sizes and there are other caculators as well for offset etc.

https://tiresize.com/comparison/

CaptainRAVE · 23 Aug 2020 at 19:29

What with some tread at the limit on one front tyre and the other losing pressure, I’ve ordered some F1 AS5’s to replace them.

zom247 · 25 Aug 2020 at 11:56

Just had my car serviced and they informed me that my front tyres were at 3mm. Although the legal limit is 1.6mm I've just done a search on 3mm tyres and there seems to be cases both for and against changing the tyres at 3mm. The tyres have been on since new (4 years now) and I only do about 5k per year on them. So, change or keep a bit longer?

CaptainRAVE · 25 Aug 2020 at 12:01

zom247 said:
Just had my car serviced and they informed me that my front tyres were at 3mm. Although the legal limit is 1.6mm I've just done a search on 3mm tyres and there seems to be cases both for and against changing the tyres at 3mm. The tyres have been on since new (4 years now) and I only do about 5k per year on them. So, change or keep a bit longer?

Performance reduces a fair bit below 3mm, especially in colder and/or wetter conditions. The degree of performance loss depends somewhat on the make of tyre. My Pirelli P Zeros were very noticeable whereas my CS5s were more forgiving.

Akagi · 25 Aug 2020 at 14:33

VaderDSL said:
This site is pretty good at showing differences for tyre/wheel sizes and there are other caculators as well for offset etc.

https://tiresize.com/comparison/

This one has a useful little visualisation.

https://www.willtheyfit.com/

VaderDSL · 25 Aug 2020 at 16:07

Acme said:
This one has a useful little visualisation.

https://www.willtheyfit.com/

Nice! Cheers, I’ll have to bookmark that one, ta.

Zico · 29 Aug 2020 at 19:31

zom247 said:
Just had my car serviced and they informed me that my front tyres were at 3mm. Although the legal limit is 1.6mm I've just done a search on 3mm tyres and there seems to be cases both for and against changing the tyres at 3mm. The tyres have been on since new (4 years now) and I only do about 5k per year on them. So, change or keep a bit longer?

We're coming up to autumn / winter now and the weather is getting wetter and wetter. I wouldn't chance things much longer with 3mm tyres.

zom247 · 30 Aug 2020 at 19:37

Zico said:
We're coming up to autumn / winter now and the weather is getting wetter and wetter. I wouldn't chance things much longer with 3mm tyres.

Going to buy a couple of new tyres, just need to sort out which ones to put on.

zom247 · 1 Sep 2020 at 19:31

Been reading up a bit more on tyres and seen several articles that the newer tyres with more tread should be on the rear. My current tyres are front - 3mm and rear - 5mm.

So, when I buy some new tyres I swap the current rears to the front and put the brand new ones on the rear? Never done this before but I think that's cos I've always done all 4 tyres at the same time.

xs2man · 1 Sep 2020 at 19:33

zom247 said:
Been reading up a bit more on tyres and seen several articles that the newer tyres with more tread should be on the rear. My current tyres are front - 3mm and rear - 5mm.

So, when I buy some new tyres I swap the current rears to the front and put the brand new ones on the rear? Never done this before but I think that's cos I've always done all 4 tyres at the same time.

Correct. Put the current rears on the front, and the new tyres on the rear.

zom247 · 1 Sep 2020 at 20:00

xs2man said:
Correct. Put the current rears on the front, and the new tyres on the rear.

Cheers. Lastly (and probably a very noob motoring question), is it ok to mix treads as I'll have different tyres on the front and rear. Looking at getting the Goodyear Efficient Grip Performance 2 for the new set.

xs2man · 1 Sep 2020 at 21:24

It's not ideal, but it's not the worst thing either. I'm guessing when it comes time to change the "new" fronts, you will probably go for the same again, so will be ok.

Sho · 4 Sep 2020 at 13:33

VaderDSL said:
Be good to hear how you get on with them, especially once we get into colder months.

Sorry with the late. Thought i'll give it a while before i post back.

Tyres have been brilliant. Especially in the rain. I have more confident in these in the wet. Tyres sticks nice and solid on the road, especially on bends. You have this feeling that you know these tyres are not going to fail on you. Where as previous tyres never had any confident levels.
Basically they've transformed my car.

I won't be using any other tyres from now on. Crossclimates all the way

xs2man · 15 Sep 2020 at 20:46

For some reason, I forgot to realise just how big a 265/40/20 tyre would be...

Akagi · 15 Sep 2020 at 20:54

££££

xs2man · 15 Sep 2020 at 23:18

Acme said:
££££

Ordinarily yes. This time round, I got them cheap... (for what they are).

Akagi · 15 Sep 2020 at 23:39

xs2man said:
Ordinarily yes. This time round, I got them cheap... (for what they are).

£££

xs2man · 16 Sep 2020 at 00:02

Acme said:
£££

££ each

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