Tyre age
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Don't you rotate your tyres so they wear evenly Fox?
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9.4 seconds, but I was talking about the Xantia.
No, because the rear tyres are wider than the front tyres.
Proper cars have larger wheels on the back. I bet his rears wont even fit on the front.
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Aah...fair enough. Didn't realise that, sorry.
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Proper cars have larger wheels on the back. I bet his rears wont even fit on the front.
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Proper cars have larger wheels on the back. I bet his rears wont even fit on the front.
Correct, the actual alloy is wider than the front one.
Why? It's quite common on RWD cars I thought?
Yeah, most RWD cars with over 175bhp tend to.
Someone mentioned rotating tyres and on a RWD car under normal circumstances, this would be of little use as the work is quite evenly spread across the tyres.
Of course some tyres, will actually have different compunds to compensate for this, I think Bridgstone are one of the pioneers for this because, the've used the 3/5 compound idea for years on sport bike tyres, so the centre of the front would be hard, and say med-hard onb the back, then the further to the edge of the tyre you go the softer the compound and thus more grip, the rear tyres of bike have a similar concept.
Now if my memory serves me correctly, they have borught this in on certain road cars, like the Ferrari's and I think also on the GTR (or at least they talked about it on the GTR, it might only be the one with the RE070's, basically a super-sticky weary-outy fasty Japan only version of the European longer-lasty RE050's as fitted on many sport cars) SO Bridstone would make the tyres compound fit the camber of the said sports car.
The Ferraris have a special compund and emblem, but I also noticed when BMW fit Bridgestones they have a small star or somthing like that, so in say First Stop or Kwik-Fit they stock these tyres with a mark and can only be fitted to the BMWsk, whats going on there??
And one more question for the tyre gurusI've mentioned Bridgestone lots this post, but why is it called bridgestone and not stonebridge because the founder Mr. Ishibashi actually translates to stonebridge??
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