Pilot Sport 4 tyres

[MouthBoy]

I currently have these on all 4 corners of my S5, but the rears are nearing legal limit so wanting to replace. Fronts only done earlier this year so they have about 2k on them only.

Issue is, I am finding that I can get PS4S and PS5 tyres everywhere, but not the PS4. Have they been discontinued?

Would it be a poor choice to put PS5 on rear only?

 

[xs2man]

While it is preferable to have matching tyres all round, in this case, PS5's on rear and PS4's on front would be fine.

 

[Jumper118]

The ps5 isn't a huge upgrade to the ps4 so you should be fine running those.

 

[MouthBoy]

While it is preferable to have matching tyres all round, in this case, PS5's on rear and PS4's on front would be fine.

This is always my thinking. All 4 corners matching.

As its constantly quattro, and 60% rear bias, this was my concern to have a different grip pattern on the rear in relation to the front driven wheels.

 

[happy_2008]

What size tyres are they?

 

[MouthBoy]

What size tyres are they?

255/35 R19 Y (96)

 

[happy_2008]

255/35 R19 Y (96)

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[[TW]Fox]

Who knew Asda did tyres?

Full range of car tyres including top brands at Asda prices

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That's the run flat version.

 

[Grim5]

How you get uneven wear? Never heard of rotations?

 

[BUDFORCE]

How you get uneven wear? Never heard of rotations?

You'll still end up with uneven wear front to back unless you are changing them around every few months.

 

[sx_turbo]

This is always my thinking. All 4 corners matching.

As its constantly quattro, and 60% rear bias, this was my concern to have a different grip pattern on the rear in relation to the front driven wheels.

Although it's a concern the Audi have a centre differential so the difference will be fine, unlike the later Subaru's where it will flag a fault with the drive system if the tyres are unequal.

Unless your driving like Colin McRae everywhere then I doubt you would even notice

 

[sx_turbo]

You'll still end up with uneven wear front to back unless you are changing them around every few months.

Agreed, the fronts tend to always wear quicker as they are the turning wheels and when going round corners they have the weight of the car pushing against them, hence the fronts tend to wear first whether 4 wheel drive or not

 

[Grim5]

You'll still end up with uneven wear front to back unless you are changing them around every few months.

Maybe range driven between changes has some impact; as I'm not experiencing this. I swap front to back once a year, travel about 3000 miles a year and tread difference between front and back stays around 0.1mm

 

[MouthBoy]

I'm doing about 10-12k a year.

Fronts are different tread depth due to a problem I had that destroyed a front tyre, so I replaced the both on the front. This took rear and front out of sync a bit.