Tyres!

Pfft

a mate of mine has exactly the same one as you, same color and everything.

He went on and on for 3 weeks how he was going to "blitz me"

The opportunity then arrived (plymouth to tavistock, 2:30am).

I had about as much time as needed to eat an extra large mc chicken sandwich meal if there was still a mcdonalds in tavistock, waiting for him to catch up by the time i got there :)
 
Janesy B said:
What engine was it?

Maybe he wasn't a burger munching speeding mentalist like you are?
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lmao.... janesy bit of topic (well not really) but what tyres do you put on your car?

and while i have a chance to quiz you, went youve gone on the road for say 30 mins then sit still in traffic for like 25 mins, does your temp go past the A of normal and then the fan kick in and your car sound like its going to cut out when the fan starts up. sounds like a stupid question but it happens a lot when i drive to uni and get stuck in traffic on the way wondering if that means something needs replacing or if its normal.
 
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I haven't put any on :)

I have Continental Sport Contact 2s on the front and Firestone Z200 on the rear. I don't really rate the Contis as I find them too Jelly like, nice and grippy though.

All twoblacklines has managed to prove is that the Passat is the better milemuncher, hardly a massive breakthrough. I already stated my car would have an advantage in twistier roads. Anyway, I'm not entering a pointless Passat vs Fiesta debate because both cars are slow.
 
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cheers, so you would recommend them then?, just wondering cos at the mo i have maragoni verso's and while i wont say theyre bad i thought i should get some posho tyres. also check my edit above cos i had a second question, sorry to be a pain in the butt
 
Janesy B said:
All twoblacklines has managed to prove is that the Passat is the better milemuncher, hardly a massive breakthrough. I already stated my car would have an advantage in twistier roads.
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The road he refers to is a 10 mile long A road across Dartmoor which is quite twisty in places, although has a number of straight open sectons. It is by no means a dual carriageway!

Not sure what he proved though other than his ability to drive like a prune, he must have been seriously shifting to get there so far ahead of the Fiesta.
 
Eliot said:
cheers, so you would recommend them then?, just wondering cos at the mo i have maragoni verso's and while i wont say theyre bad i thought i should get some posho tyres. also check my edit above cos i had a second question, sorry to be a pain in the butt
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If you have 13 inch wheels then good rubber will be really cheap, if you have 14s like me then you're pretty much screwed for choice.

My fan does kick in when in traffic, are you saying the revs drop when the fan comes on and then rises back to normal again? Anyway, lets not trash this man's thread about tyres for his ultra fast sports car. Feel free to add me to msn.
 
Janesy B said:
If you have 13 inch wheels then good rubber will be really cheap, if you have 14s like me then you're pretty much screwed for choice.

My fan does kick in when in traffic, are you saying the revs drop when the fan comes on and then rises back to normal again? Anyway, lets not trash this man's thread about tyres for his ultra fast sports car. Feel free to add me to msn.
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What 'good rubber' can you get for 13's? I've yet to actually see any.
 
Clarkey said:
What 'good rubber' can you get for 13's? I've yet to actually see any.
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Being difficult much? Good as in won't kill you, not so good you can corner at warp factor 2. I have seen track day tyres in 13, Yoko A048 R?

With 13 inch you definately have more choice over 14 but ideally you want to be going up to 15 to get higher performance tyres.
 
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[TW]Fox;15081134 said:
The road he refers to is a 10 mile long A road across Dartmoor which is quite twisty in places, although has a number of straight open sectons. It is by no means a dual carriageway!

Not sure what he proved though other than his ability to drive like a prune, he must have been seriously shifting to get there so far ahead of the Fiesta.
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The real ****take is that i was 2 up and he was on his own :D

I only did it to shut him up, he wanted to do the torpoint to trurulefoot road but that really would have been unfair on him given its my alternate way home and he lives in tavistock.
 
twoblacklines, i think troll of the year award has to go to you. practically every thread of yours i see is utterly mental, on this board and others.

mid night race wars, passat vs 1.3 fiesta... and im gonna be TWO UP ZOMG. and im gonna post up the date, time and location of my secret races YO

£1 bet says the fiesta didnt actually want to pass you because your ninja HIDs would have made him ROFL off the road

tyre sizes for the 16s will probably just as awkward, why not hold on until you can get some 17s and then youll have much more chance of getting good tyres for them too
 
twoblacklines said:
The real ****take is that i was 2 up and he was on his own :D

I only did it to shut him up, he wanted to do the torpoint to trurulefoot road but that really would have been unfair on him given its my alternate way home and he lives in tavistock.
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You still haven't said what engine he had. Maybe I should be getting one of there old diesel Passats, they sound really really rapid!
 
Janesy B said:
Being difficult much? Good as in won't kill you, not so good you can corner at warp factor 2. I have seen track day tyres in 13, Yoko A048 R?

With 13 inch you definately have more choice over 14 but ideally you want to be going up to 15 to get higher performance tyres.
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I wasn't being difficult, seems you didn't have the answer I was looking for anyway though. Seems like it's either ditchfinder or semi-slick with no middle ground.
 
Clarkey said:
I wasn't being difficult, seems you didn't have the answer I was looking for anyway though. Seems like it's either ditchfinder or semi-slick with no middle ground.
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I fitted a pair of Goodyear GT2s to my Escort and they were certainly not ditchfinders. They did do well until some arse threw a load of screws on my drive which a ran over and ended up with studded snow tyres :(
 
Hmm, not had GT2 but have GT3's, they are ok in the dry, surprisingly good turn-in ability for a baloon-profile tyre. Much the same as the rest though in the wet, like driving on ice, probably down to the super hard compound which just doesn't wear down at all.
 
Goodyear GT2's are crap in the wet on my clio, i think the hero tyres that are now on the back are better than them in the wet :/
 
I noticed that, I put it down to the fact I had 165 rubber bands. They shifted moving water fine, certainly better than the CEAT Spider (:rolleyes:) that were on the car previously.

Vigoro said:
Goodyear GT2's are crap in the wet on my clio, i think the hero tyres that are now on the back are better than them in the wet :/
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That's because you drive like a loon :p
 
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