Mini owners your input needed

Sparky · 25 Mar 2011 at 23:03

After receiving a nice bonus i decided to buy her indoors a new car, so to cut a long story short, she plumped for a 2005 Mini Cooper [ trust me i tried to get her into a Cooper S but no luck]

Anyway the point to the thread, runflats!!!! Got to get them off they are awful.
What should i replace them with, i have read issues of the central display throwing up tyre pressure warnings if you do swap them over so would need to cure this also.

So in summary

new tyres required,which?
what to do with pressure warning lights?

eidolon · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:35

I've got Vreidsteins on mine, they're ok I guess, decent enough all round tyre. Any mid range upwards should be fine I'd guess.

As for the light, mine came on for a few minutes when I changed wheels and tyres but it just goes off again once the systems figures everything out. It's never returned since.

Sparky · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:41

Well she is now looking at BBS rims in 18 flavour so we can forget the runflats question i guess. eidolon how long does the light stay on for?

gord · 26 Mar 2011 at 00:49

Usually with runflat systems you can reset it before your journey and when you drive for a few minutes it will have worked out the changes. Only have to do it once after the tyre changes.

Joe T · 26 Mar 2011 at 08:45

We want to change the 17" runflats on the 2005 Works. Thinking of Vredesteins but not sure yet. Open to recommendations!

Dogbreath · 26 Mar 2011 at 09:54

CS||nuTs said:
Well she is now looking at BBS rims in 18 flavour so we can forget the runflats question i guess. eidolon how long does the light stay on for?

Presumably you are changing the run flats due to the dire ride they give, so why are you looking at larger rims?

eidolon · 26 Mar 2011 at 09:56

Definitely don't get 18s unless you want to bounce all over the road, stick with 17s if you want some degree of comfort

West · 26 Mar 2011 at 14:50

I use Toyo T1Rs. Decent Tyres, good grip

Sone · 26 Mar 2011 at 15:00

miniBBS?

BurningHorizons · 26 Mar 2011 at 17:26

I had Toyo T1R's on mine too. They suit the go-kart characteristics of the car perfectly.

eidolon · 26 Mar 2011 at 17:52

West said:
I use Toyo T1Rs. Decent Tyres, good grip

What are they like for tyre noise?

I'm not sure if my tyre noise is down to the Vredsteins or my poly wishbone bushes.

Sparky · 26 Mar 2011 at 21:31

Dogbreath said:
Presumably you are changing the run flats due to the dire ride they give, so why are you looking at larger rims?

She likes how they look! Will attempt to put her straight though,thanks for the headsup

West · 27 Mar 2011 at 12:30

eidolon said:
What are they like for tyre noise?

I'm not sure if my tyre noise is down to the Vredsteins or my poly wishbone bushes.

Relativley low noise in comparison to most, as someone just said, they're great for hooning around, i've just had 2 new ones on the front and just breaking them in.