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Firstly I am entirely in agreement with the first person who states a tyre thread is pretty lame, but I'm posting one for two reasons.
a) mjt has constantly asked me for more details about the tyres I bought
b) It was noted in another thread that there was recently a new revision of the CS3 but that nobody knows what the difference is or how to tell. Therefore I figured it might be useful to find out.
If you have a set of CS3's, please post a photo of the sidewall along with the production date if you know it, and the purchase date if you don't. Then we can try and work out when they changed to the 'new' version which will help people buying them.
Mine (Production Date 0210):
Some of you might be interested to know why such a diehard Eagle F1 fanboy has now completely moved away from them.
Simple - I got a really good deal on these. Found some chap who had bought a set of 4 brand new CS3's and then for whatever reason not been able to fit them due to getting rid of the car. So he had 4 CS3's in a set size. So I bought them... and after postage, fitting and balancing have had the four fitted for....
£425
They were, of course, brand new with stickers (I would never buy used tyres).
They are almost £700 on Camskill. At that price it was silly not to give them a try really - especially as I was about to click 'Buy' on £570 worth of Eagle F1 Assymetrics (And had considered the Conti's before when Camskill had a deal on, you may remember my last thread).
So, it'll be interesting to see how they compare with me beloved Eagle F1's. I've not really done an awful lot since I've got them but so far the only immediate differences I've found are that there is marginally less road noise than with the Eagle F1's. I have had the DSC light flickering a bit more than I used to but I'm currently putting this down to the fact they are still new and have not yet worn in.
If anyone cares I'll keep you updated as to what I think but do bear in mind that one of my stongest opinions is that user tyre reviews are worthless as nobody knows quite how credible the 'review' is
That said, post your CS3's and lets see if we can work out how to identify the 'new' ones. Quite why they didnt just call the new ones CS3A or something I will never understand.
a) mjt has constantly asked me for more details about the tyres I bought
b) It was noted in another thread that there was recently a new revision of the CS3 but that nobody knows what the difference is or how to tell. Therefore I figured it might be useful to find out.
If you have a set of CS3's, please post a photo of the sidewall along with the production date if you know it, and the purchase date if you don't. Then we can try and work out when they changed to the 'new' version which will help people buying them.
Mine (Production Date 0210):
Some of you might be interested to know why such a diehard Eagle F1 fanboy has now completely moved away from them.
Simple - I got a really good deal on these. Found some chap who had bought a set of 4 brand new CS3's and then for whatever reason not been able to fit them due to getting rid of the car. So he had 4 CS3's in a set size. So I bought them... and after postage, fitting and balancing have had the four fitted for....
£425
They were, of course, brand new with stickers (I would never buy used tyres).
They are almost £700 on Camskill. At that price it was silly not to give them a try really - especially as I was about to click 'Buy' on £570 worth of Eagle F1 Assymetrics (And had considered the Conti's before when Camskill had a deal on, you may remember my last thread).
So, it'll be interesting to see how they compare with me beloved Eagle F1's. I've not really done an awful lot since I've got them but so far the only immediate differences I've found are that there is marginally less road noise than with the Eagle F1's. I have had the DSC light flickering a bit more than I used to but I'm currently putting this down to the fact they are still new and have not yet worn in.
If anyone cares I'll keep you updated as to what I think but do bear in mind that one of my stongest opinions is that user tyre reviews are worthless as nobody knows quite how credible the 'review' is
That said, post your CS3's and lets see if we can work out how to identify the 'new' ones. Quite why they didnt just call the new ones CS3A or something I will never understand.
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