Spec me some 205/55/R16s for the Ti that will last!

mattyprice4004 · 1 Oct 2009 at 08:34

Having eaten through my P6000s in a stupidly short length of time, I was wondering what the forum recommend these days?

Budget about £60 per corner fitted, what you got?

Cheers!

osc89er · 1 Oct 2009 at 08:43

The popular midrange stuff is the Falken FK452 and the Kumho Ecsta KU31. I guess you'll get a price+£10 for fitting from Camskill?

mattyprice4004 · 1 Oct 2009 at 08:44

I was looking at the FK452s, they're meant to be top rubber

they look within my pricerange too!

neil-ste · 1 Oct 2009 at 08:54

P6000s are a very durable tyre in my experience, they lasted 13k miles on my Civic before getting anywhere near worn, the F1s that replaced them lasted about 6k.

Also, they're kack.

Matt82 · 1 Oct 2009 at 08:56

bit worrying how you killed p6000s "quickly"

rolling burn outs are bad for the environment mmmkay

mattyprice4004 · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:14

Matt82 said:
bit worrying how you killed p6000s "quickly"

rolling burn outs are bad for the environment mmmkay

I'd be more worried about my gearbox than anything else

The 6000s weren't THAT bad, just seem to have worn quickly, unless I overestimated how much meat I had on when I bought the car

Matt82 · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:26

go from p6000s to ku31s and you wont know what hit you.

mattyprice4004 · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:26

Matt82 said:
go from p6000s to ku31s and you wont know what hit you.

Do they wear well?

Matt82 · 1 Oct 2009 at 10:43

my last ones lasted 22k, including the ring, i kill them hard, a lot

agw_01 · 1 Oct 2009 at 11:16

I'm tempted by the FK452s for the Coupe. Supposed to be quite good.

jamjar1383 · 1 Oct 2009 at 12:02

directional tyres wear faster, so make sure you but non directional

Matt82 · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:34

how is that?! sounds like a load of rubbish

dale1uk · 1 Oct 2009 at 14:09

I'd also look at the Vredestein Ultracs: http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m4b757s291p0

Has a set of these on my Astra that did a trip to the ring a year and a half ago and they still have life left in them today ( flatmate bought it off me when I got my ctr) Was so impressed by them I fitted a full set to my ctr and they are doing great and easily survived this years ring trip.

The current price of these is also dam good, I paid £75 a corner when I got the same size fitted to my astra!

a1ex2001 · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:35

Got Eagle NCT5's in the same size just recently for about that money, the last set did well over 20K.