tyres for BMW E39

thedazman67 said:
Just a general question, are you not limited in choice for tyres gibbo with 20" wheel sizes and low profile tyres not nothing you see everyday in the UK. I dare to think how much they are each.

As for the recommendation i've heard good things about Yokohoma Prada Spec 2's.

thedazman
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Hi there

Yes its very difficult to find tyres.

I was looking to get 4 new Michelin Pilot Sport 2 or Dunlop Sport Maxx in 275/35/20 all round. However my supplier could no find anywhere with stock and I can't wait too long as my rears are more or less on the wear indicator. Plus I can only use the one supplier as he can get me the Dunlops for £175 corner and the PS2's for £195 a corner, which is far cheaper than elsewhere.

Still I went with the Pirreli's, but just for the rear as the fronts are fine so saved quite a bit of money too. Like I say not sure how good of tyre they are but the car seems to hold the road pretty well with them in all weather and they screach nicely on the limit. :)
 
After destroying 2 of my alloys I am now back on the 15" I have goodyear hydragrips on them seem to do okay if you want some cheapish tyres.

as for the 18" well dont ever have khumho :p there bald at the back after 8000

I would like to try the toyo proxes so that would be my choice.
 
DAvE18 said:
After destroying 2 of my alloys I am now back on the 15" I have goodyear hydragrips on them seem to do okay if you want some cheapish tyres.

as for the 18" well dont ever have khumho :p there bald at the back after 8000

I would like to try the toyo proxes so that would be my choice.
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Hmm, I was about to try the Khumho's to replace my Falken 452's which I've toasted after 9k miles, back to the drawing board it seems.....
 
R124/LA420 said:
Hmm, I was about to try the Khumho's to replace my Falken 452's which I've toasted after 9k miles, back to the drawing board it seems.....
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Seriously all over the shop in the wet but fantastic in the dry, seem very soft so wore down very quickly. think there about 95 a corner so theres deffo better out there for the money :)
 
put a set of kumho ecsta' s on the rear of my M5 before i sold it.

not as good as the other tyres i have had on before it (eagles and pzero's) but not massively worse. they were only £100 a corner as well. :)

pzero rosso's - prefered the goodyear eagle F1's plus the handling seemed to go a bit funny as they reached the wear limiters, not sure if that was a combination of things, but new rear tyres sorted out the problem.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
what fools gonna be booting it around in the wet? :confused:
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Semi slicks tend not to work so well in the wet, as in on a rwd car they are dangerous, unless you have two sets of wheels or looking for summer only tyres than 888's arn't the ones to go for.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
what fools gonna be booting it around in the wet? :confused:
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For most people, they time they reach the limit of their tyres grip will be when the road is wet. When you round a bend at 60mph to find a tree on the road, or a broken down car, or someone steps out in front of you.

THATS why I buy damn good rubber, not so I can corner 2mph faster on a trackday.
 
[TW]Fox said:
For most people, they time they reach the limit of their tyres grip will be when the road is wet. When you round a bend at 60mph to find a tree on the road, or a broken down car, or someone steps out in front of you.

THATS why I buy damn good rubber, not so I can corner 2mph faster on a trackday.
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It didn't help you when you went into that hedge! :p
 
I agree, you want to have the best rubber you can afford. Thats why I think I am favoring the F1 over the others. My problem is that I cant find much user experence with them.

I found the following on the a respected tyre site (http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible.html). I think Eagle Responsedge is the American marketing brand name

"In 2007, Goodyear added a new tyre to their Eagle range, called the Eagle Responsedge. The tyre has the same basic construction as all modern tyres but Goodyear added a carbon-fibre insert to the outer sidewall. If you've seen footage of cars cornering hard in racing, you'll have seen how the sidewalls deform under extreme cornering loads. The idea of putting a carbon fibre insert in the outer sidewall is that it stiffens the sidewall to help prevent compression and sideways shearing. That in turn helps to keep more of the contact patch on the road during cornering as the tyre isn't trying to roll out of the corner so much. Ultimately the idea is improved cornering speed and handling characteristics. It's another of the trickle-down technologies from Formula 1 motor racing that has finally hit the streets for the consumer."

Has any one read user experience of these new tyres ?
 
ok, going for they F1 asymmetric., they are being fitted tomorrow. fingers crossed they will sort out my tramelining problem :), as my BMW indy ruled out suspension
 
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I am bring my tyres to the RR day with me. Hope they fit in the car as they look more like truck tyres, damn things are huge.

With my wheels been 20" a lot of garages can't fit them so PS said there machine is fine upto 21" so they are gonna sort for me. :)
 
Cyber-Mav said:
one thing about tyres is it illegal to have different sized tyres up front and different sized ones on the rear?
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Hi there

Nope, its how a lot of cars come from the factory, BMW's, 911's, Mustangs etc.
 
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