**Unofficial Tyre Thread**

Had a great mobile fitting experience yesterday, after several recommendations i used Tyres On The Drive to supply and fit two Gooodyear Efficient Grips to a Polo, great mobile fitting service, they showed up at 9:15am which was slightly earlier than promised, took 25mins to fit the tyres, and it only cost me £20 more than the delivered only price from Camskill and £8 cheaper than Event Tyres.

Can't argue with that, will be using them again, saves waiting in a garage for 30 mins.
 
chrislusty said:
OK i need two new tyres, 215 55 16, a rubbish size, where anything good is expensive. Continental Premium Contacts are £105, Dunlop SportMaxx Rt are the same price. However camskill currently have the new Uniroyal Rainsport 3s at £73 each. My local tyre place want £101 each for these tyres, but will happily fit tyres for £8 each.
So would a £60 saving be worth tyring out the Uniroyals? I currently have Premium Contact 2s on the front, 5s on the rear. The fronts are the ones that need changing. Any extra advice before i order the Uniroyals?
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Weird, have prices gone up? I paid £160 (fitted) for 2 cpc5 10 months ago in the exact same size ..

The Goodyear efficient grip seems to be besting the cpc5 thou, so thats one to look at.
I really rated the rainsport 2, especially on a damp road, id say the rs2 is better than the cpc5 in the damp/wet so the 3 should be interesting, but as someone said, i don't think there's any independent testing yet as it's new. If it's cheaper enough over the equivalent competition I'd be tempted to have a punt on it, Uniroyal and continental are owned by the same company and produced in the same plant any way. There was another thread where someone mentioned this, it was believed the Uniroyal name would be dropped, and the tech incorporated into the conti brandbut it seems they want to continue that line, with the appearance of the rs3.
 
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mattyfez said:
Weird, have prices gone up? I paid £160 (fitted) for 2 cpc5 10 months ago in the exact same size ..

The Goodyear efficient grip seems to be besting the cpc5 thou, so thats one to look at.
I really rated the rainsport 2, especially on a damp road, id say the rs2 is better than the cpc5 in the damp/wet so the 3 should be interesting, but as someone said, i don't think there's any independent testing yet as it's new. If it's cheaper enough over the equivalent competition I'd be tempted to have a punt on it, Uniroyal and continental are owned by the same company and produced in the same plant any way. There was another thread where someone mentioned this, it was believed the Uniroyal name would be dropped, and the tech incorporated into the conti brandbut it seems they want to continue that line, with the appearance of the rs3.
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I have never seen Premium Contact 5s under. £100 any time in that size, I was looking online and even vredestein were just short of £100, Michelin being most around £120. (Not including fitting)
I ordered the Uniroyal RainSport3s and had them fitted yesterday. Including fitting I paid £80 each. Not a huge difference, but over £40 saving over the Premium Contact 5s. Will see how I get on with them.
 
Blackhawk47 said:
What do people think of Bridgestone Potenzas?
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Really dont like them, they seem to come as standard on many things these days - I had them on my 335i and the girlfriends Mini has them all round. Noisy and not exactly ultra-grippy.

These are the RE050's I'm referring to, they do other Potenzas of which I have no experience.
 
Bridgestone as a whole are nice tyres, nice stiff walls, not the best in the wet though. Would really like to try the RE11, but can't get them here, just like you can't get Direzzas, or Eagle RS Sports. :(
 
chrislusty said:
I have never seen Premium Contact 5s under. £100 any time in that size, I was looking online and even vredestein were just short of £100, Michelin being most around £120. (Not including fitting)
I ordered the Uniroyal RainSport3s and had them fitted yesterday. Including fitting I paid £80 each. Not a huge difference, but over £40 saving over the Premium Contact 5s. Will see how I get on with them.
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I'd be interested to hear how you find them as the tread has been substantiality changed to an asymmetric design, the previous rs2 seemed to be an upper midrang tyre so maybe this model has higher sights, which is strang as it will put it in direct competition with the premium contact 5 and possibly the sport contact 5..
 
My new car a4 came with contisport contact 3's on, 225/50/r17.
I've no idea if they are good or bad, that website seems to rate then c for efficiency and b for braking, with 72db, so I assume this is reasonable.

As i don't do much of the driving now, and my wife would be darting around here and there I had considered some form of winter purchase, but wouldn't know where to start but having reviews Fox's words, not sure I should even bother looking if the tyres we have are reasonable.

What I do ponder is sourcing a spare tyre, if I was off on long journeys or holidays I could throw one in, as the car came with one of those puncture kits, rather than a tyre, spacesaver or otherwise.
How do i go about sourcing one which would be the right size and suitable, but inexpensive, could be spacesaver or full size, wouldn't bother me which.
 
sigma said:
I can only really count one occasion when I lost grip in on the T1-Rs and that was in -2 deg weather at 6am.

Other than that they seemed fine for day to day use.

Clearly I'm not a drift-king hero.
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I will never understand this comment. Any tyre no matter how good it is will slide easily, some will take a higher speed than others. T1R is middle of the road stuff, AS2 is about as good as it gets for wet, the difference is quite noticeable.
 
The T1-Rs never felt 'bad' in the wet. No doubt the Asy2 will grip better in the case of an emergency stop but I can't say there was much difference during normal driving. The biggest difference was noticed when the T's got near the legal limit, they were pretty crap then, bloody good fun, mind :)

Edit - I did drive through some standing water on the motorway a few weeks ago and I didn't see it but the tyres held up very well and didn't steer off course or anything. Would be interesting to see how the T1-Rs would have done as I don't ever recall them having to deal with similar. I'd probably still buy Asy2 again as, like I said, they're no doubt better at the limit, even if I can't tell any difference whilst driving normally.
 
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sigma said:
The T1-Rs never felt 'bad' in the wet. No doubt the Asy2 will grip better in the case of an emergency stop but I can't say there was much difference during normal driving. The biggest difference was noticed when the T's got near the legal limit, they were pretty crap then, bloody good fun, mind :)

Edit - I did drive through some standing water on the motorway a few weeks ago and I didn't see it but the tyres held up very well and didn't steer off course or anything. Would be interesting to see how the T1-Rs would have done as I don't ever recall them having to deal with similar. I'd probably still buy Asy2 again as, like I said, they're no doubt better at the limit, even if I can't tell any difference whilst driving normally.
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T1-R's are better than eagle f1 gsd3 in my personal experience, but I can't comment on the asy2.
 
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