Falken FK452's

The Turenzas didnt come out well which is to be expected as they are surely a mid range tyre - Potenza is the Eagle equivilent.
 
I've had the Falkens on my A4 TQS for almost a year and I'm quite happy with their performace, especially for the money.

I don't believe in purposely scrimping when it comes to tyres, but I would happily use these tyres again.

Tbh I don't put a lot of stock in most tyre reviews I read, especially on the net. If I can't find a mate who's opinion I trust to reccomend a specific type of tyre, I stick to the ones I have used in the past.

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I've had mine for about a year now also. I bought them based purely on opinions given here and on SeatCupra.Net. They haven't let me down yet and were good value.
 
I've only used FK452's and some Bridgestone SA-014 Pole positions (I think that was the model :o ) on my Octavia and it seemed very predictable on both so stuck with the Falkens and will continue to do so whilst they remain good vfm.
 
You'd have thought that a good tyre round-up would do "like for like".
I'd have liked to have seen what the "experts" had to say about the Potenza line - after spending as much as I did I'd like some confirmation they are liked :)
 
One of the most striking differences in the approach to certain things that my dad and I have, is that I will favour the more factual, logical route (as Fox is demonstrating he also does in this thread) for coming to conclusions, and my dad will favour objective opinion.

An example...

My dad once drove a Mondeo ST TDCi. I think that week he'd been mostly driving a 1.4 Fiesta. We got talking about how fast the ST TDCi was... his friend, who owned the car, had made amazing claims about performance and what he'd out-run in it. My dad, after driving it and feeling the torque, believed those claims. He offered up that it was "faster" than my 330. No matter how many figures I pulled up... the 50% power advantage, the benefit of RWD, the 2 second shorter 0-60, the extra 20 mph top end, the 50/50 weight distribution.. he wasn't having it. Opinion and claims of a friend overrode all fact and logical reasoning.

Tyre tests are a similar thing. Most people who are fitting your tyres... are not very clever. I say most, as I'm sure there's a guy with a PhD in Astrophysics that is fitting tyres in some remote Buckinghamshire village. The fact remains that the chances of your tyre fitter or random friend or even one's own opinion, being of more factual value than a controlled performance comparison, are pretty slim.
 
Thanks for the info. Fortunately, people with more experience of driving and / or tyres having been advising this for at least 18 months :)

I'd be impartial to see your response to a credible magazine publishing information about the moon landings being fake and 9/11 being an inside job ;)

I've always liked the Falkens. If strapped for cash, they would be my tyre of choice. Still, it is nice to know that now [TW] has given his approval, the rest fo the internetz can go and buy them without prejudice :D
 
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Lucero said:
Thanks for the info. Fortunately, people with more experience of driving and / or tyres having been advising this for at least 18 months :)
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yet despite their apparent experience and wisdom, some people still proceed and recommend rubbish tyres.
 
The irony here is that I bought 4 for the 9-5 on reccomendation of the Type-R owners and other small reivews here and there and ignored similar negative posts elsewhere. Took all the comments onboard and took a punt on them. I'm sure there's a few tyres that will slot in above them but I think they're better all round than some tyres that cost £20-30 more each.


The problem with tyres is their application. Most cars are around 215 maybe 225 wide, but it interests me how the tread is treated when you get towards the 300 mark. Is it stretched? How does this change the tyre and it's characteristics? Also, tyres are reliant on load, some cars may be better on a lighter car than a heavier one.

The good thing about the mag tests is that they use specific cars and they're as consistent as they can be but I'm more inclined to side with people who own the same specific make and marque for an opinion.
 
Dup said:
Danza can stop hiding on the CTRO forum now :p :D
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:p :D

I never hid the fact that I was going for these on my CTR!

Haven't yet seen how good they are/aren't, as a balance weight has dropped off and the car judders a bit at 60mph. They're also not scrubbed in yet.
 
I have FK452's on the back of my E39 and they seem okay, in the wet definitely not as good as the F1 Asymmetrics that I used to have so I feel I'll probably go back to them at my next tyre change.
 
There are only two makes of tyre that come readily available in the sizes I run on my car (others can be found but not easy).

These are Falken 452's and Michelin PS2's.

For 4 tyres: Falken's - £380; Michelin: £820.

Are the Falken's as good? No, of course they're not. Are the Michelin's £450 better? No.

At the moment, they offer a great balance between cost and performance. However, I'd take PS2's any day of the week if the wallet is flush. Current set of 452's I've been very pleasantly surprised with.
 
When I had my E38,I found the 452's to be worse than my previous Turenzas, that said, only in the wet and not by that much imo.

They did however wear considerably more - I got about 8k from the rears compared to circa 13k for the Turenzas. - E38 BMW's are notorious for heavy tyre munching!

An excellent performance / price compromise tyre.
 
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8,000 va 13,000? How the hell are you wearing tyres through that quickly on a car like the 728i? :confused:

FWIW i got around 30,000 from my last set of (Potenza's) tyres on the w220, which i believe to be a softer tyre than either of those above, and were of a wider fitment than than the E38 would have taken. Either you ragged the hell of it, or there was something wrong :p
 
HummuH1 said:
There are only two makes of tyre that come readily available in the sizes I run on my car (others can be found but not easy).

These are Falken 452's and Michelin PS2's.

For 4 tyres: Falken's - £380; Michelin: £820.
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What size? I always find PS2 VERY expensive and they always seem to come out poorly in tyre tests as well.
 
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