Physio

I need to buy some new tyre's for the evo but im unsure what to go for

I was out in it today & the roads felt really slippy - mucho fun BUT hairy at times

So i started thinking about how the tyres are the only contact your car has with the road so they really do need to be the best you can get!

What would you say was an all round good tyre (rain/dry) etc?

OldDan

Just got a set of wheels with Goodyear HydraGrips on the front.

Read a few reviews and they all seem to praise the tyre. Had the car over some country roads the past few days, and they seem to grip really really well. Probably my next tyre. When I had Toyo Proxes, they were fantastic in the dry, but in the wet, they seemed a little slidey.

The hydragrips squeeling when corner in the wet! If that means owt.

COSSIE 1

remoulds ..............seriously id go for goodyear eagle f1's

dave cos4x4

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think any good tyre will slip about in this weather.

www.mytyres.co.uk


a good range on there AJ.

cossiecrew

wanlis all day long

Fiecos Dan

Good year F1's are very good in the wet, and good in the dry too

focusbird

I only ever put Bridgestone S03s on my Focus, cost me an arm and a leg but they lasted ages and I never lost grip in bad weather

kingycos

Potenza SO3's for me too. Better than F1's. But you have to ask for them as most places dont advertise them, plus wait normally a day to get them. But a top tyre all year..

Rhys

Snow tyres

John Laverick

Eagle F1's...best all round tyre there is imo!

Butch.

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goodyear f1s

Redkop

Got Goodyears F1s on both the Evo and the Escos

Hardeep_Singh

Goodyear eagle F1's

Andy_R

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Michelin Pilot Sport PS2's mate

Daviet

same as them best ever tyre ive used in the wet by a mile and they were cheap as fook at costco aswell

dave cos4x4

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i have them on the rear of mine,not got them fitted to the front yet.

a really good tyre.

Physio

Cheers for the input people

Guess i'll be pricing up some F1's

Are F1's a soft or hard compound tyre?

Physio

I've just been looking on there & came across some tyre's made by a company called 'linglong'

Just thought it was a funny name

AGAR-COSWORTH

Bit off topic but was looking on mytyres and some tyres were listed as having rim protection - what is this and how does it work?

Cheers

pete mcrash

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in the reviews Toyo proxies come just above F1's and are cheaper....but u can get winter tyres (michelin do em) last as long as any other tyre but heat up better/quicker at lower temps

smitsturbo

i would have said toyo proxes but as i have just baught a set for the front i might get of eagle f1's for the rear, is it bad to mix tyres from front to rear??

4x4 ste

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I have goodyear eagle f1's om my 3dr and they seem fairly grippy wet or dry
cheers steve

Harris.

Agree



Goodyear F1's not the remoulds

Stavros

Ive gone thru 5 tyres on my fantastic 95bhp Volvo 360 since i got it the other week (4 rears and a front).

The only ones not to die yet are some classy Kingpins Seriously

So yes, i wholeheartedly reccomend you get some Kingpin remoulds from the scrapyard and put them on your Evo 175/65/13 like mine if at all possible

Physio

Thanks for the advice Steve

Red16

i got Pirelli P6000's on the Evo and theyre toss in the wet fancy trying these Goodyear F1's

Ian M

f1s without a doubt.

Fiecos Dan

can you get these in 195/45/15's and 215/40/17's?

alistairolsen

uniroyal rainsports

Cozzie Bhoy

Rim protectors are where a part of the sidewall rubber protrudes out a few mill more than the wheel so if you kerb it you should feel it on the steering wheel before you make shit of the alloy.

snow*

My Dunlop Direzza's had 'rim protection' I'd say it's fairly overated. Anything more than extreme snails pace and there's no way a bit of protruding rubber will protect your rims. Well that was the case for me anyhow

Stu.H

get some quality nangkangs!

eagle f1's aj

As an idea, I tried to get a good price on a set of 4 205x40x17 GYEF1's and the cheapest I found was about £360 supplied only.

EIL132

Good tyres, although mine lasted 10k miles. Proxies and F1s have the same pattern

Physio

If they have the same tread patters why are F1's better?

EIL132

Compound, i.e. build quality

Physio

AGAR-COSWORTH

Cozzie Bhoy and snow* - cheers for that.

cossiecrew

like hard plastic mate