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Old 30-05-2007, 03:24 PM
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as you are probably aware, i've got a set of nankangs on the mondeo
after a bit of a shakey start, they have started to come good over the past few hundred miles and i've got used to them
they aren't a bad tyre, in the dry
they aren't a bad tyre in the wet either, as long as you aren't going round corners
because when you are you feel like they don't know what they want to be, tyres, possibly mushrooms, rolls of toilet paper, bricks, photocopiers, bottles of aftershave, you get the idea

the conti's onthe rear are great, but the fronts are just not good enough for some "spirited" wet weather driving

they do give me some wheelspin though up until about 10 mph on the same stretch of up hill that the granada gave me wheelspin all the way until 80 mph when i was a 1/4 of a mile away

so, in colclusion, not bad in the dry once they've bedded in, but a bit poo in the wet when you want to go round a corner
Old 30-05-2007, 03:30 PM
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So in other words.....they are SHITE!!!
Old 30-05-2007, 03:40 PM
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only in the wet
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ball joints and steering track rod ends changed and it's a different car altogether

the tyres are still a bit pants in the wet but only in as far as pulling away quickly is concerened
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So in other words.....they are SHITE!!!
sadly yes
Old 25-06-2007, 07:44 AM
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Had NS1's on the front of my old 1.6 A4 and they were very poor on that. I was scared everytime it rained I would end up in the nearest ditch
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at least i'll not be going too fast if i am to have an off then

got someone looking at a set of contis for me if they can get them for a good price (less than £60 for 225 40 18's)
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