Replied to your o2 email Solid, sounds like a sound place and am happy to grab you what you need and forward it in.
It's almost that time again... Another tyre thread!
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Replied to your o2 email Solid, sounds like a sound place and am happy to grab you what you need and forward it in.
Well thought I would update this thread. I needed tyres badly on all four corners as all were either on the verge of or illegal, so last weekend I took the plunge as the car had been sitting doing nothing since the karting meet and I was missing driving it. My other car also needed an mot, major service and a new tyre in the same weekend so funds were pretty tight as was time so the budget for all 4 on the Porsche was £850 fitted.
Having looked around and weighed up the options (apart from the leave it for another week or so option) I called blackcircles and ordered the Bridgestone Pontenza SO2A N3 Spec. Delivered to my local tyre place they were something like £830. To be honest I wanted the Pilot Sport 2 as I heard good things about them but after getting the Bridgestones fitted and the geometry done they have transformed the car over the N4 P Zero Rossos which were on there before.
looking at the pictures online I was expecting to turn up to the garage and have some funky tread pattern but the tyre looks nothing like the pics and has a different inside and outside pattern. It looks more similar to the continental and michelin tyre.
After the fitting I had a 200 odd mile round trip to hertfordshire for some work and after 100 miles or so the tyres felt great so on the way back decided I would take every b road possible, blasting down the b roads with the roof off with the sound of the exhaust and engine was just epic. I think I put an extra 60 miles or so on the journey but there was lots of
at one point I even caught myself laughing like a little girl. 
Verdict so far... I like the tyre they are certainly better on road noise than the P Zero, up there with the SC2 I would say, and as you would expect coming from four tyres on the edge grip is better as well.
Having looked around and weighed up the options (apart from the leave it for another week or so option) I called blackcircles and ordered the Bridgestone Pontenza SO2A N3 Spec. Delivered to my local tyre place they were something like £830. To be honest I wanted the Pilot Sport 2 as I heard good things about them but after getting the Bridgestones fitted and the geometry done they have transformed the car over the N4 P Zero Rossos which were on there before.
looking at the pictures online I was expecting to turn up to the garage and have some funky tread pattern but the tyre looks nothing like the pics and has a different inside and outside pattern. It looks more similar to the continental and michelin tyre.
After the fitting I had a 200 odd mile round trip to hertfordshire for some work and after 100 miles or so the tyres felt great so on the way back decided I would take every b road possible, blasting down the b roads with the roof off with the sound of the exhaust and engine was just epic. I think I put an extra 60 miles or so on the journey but there was lots of
at one point I even caught myself laughing like a little girl. Verdict so far... I like the tyre they are certainly better on road noise than the P Zero, up there with the SC2 I would say, and as you would expect coming from four tyres on the edge grip is better as well.