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Not all cheap tyres are bad, I use to have pirellis on the front of a BMW I had and bought nangkangs as a budget drift tyre and they had more grip than the pirellis and kept trying to push the car forward in bends
Not all cheap tyres are bad, I use to have pirellis on the front of a BMW I had and bought nangkangs as a budget drift tyre and they had more grip than the pirellis and kept trying to push the car forward in bends
I've always found that anything but crazy specced Pirellis are utter dogshit I'd rather have Chinese plastic tyres, at least they're cheap!
That's why you drive defensively and not like a knob.
Do you adjust your driving for various conditions? If so the same applies to tyres.
Utter bollocks
If something you can't control happens such as a kid running in front of you then under any given driving style you will stop faster and with more control with better tyres
Was looking at an E46 M3 on Piston Heads with Nangkang's on the rear.
....I'd have had the same opinion as you before I tried that exact combo out. My E46 M3 had 4 M3-specific Continentals all round when I bought it. When the time came to replace the rears, a guy at work said his mate had a new pair of correct sized 19" Nangkangs sitting that I could have for 40 quid a pop... so I thought fuck it, I'll get some epic skids with them and had them fitted.
They're just as good in the dry as the continentals were, never let me down during a very hard drive with a dozen or so imprezas through the Scottish countryside/mountain roads. They're slightly more lairy in wet with DSC off... but not remotely dangerous. I've been seriously impressed by them. Don't get me wrong, I'll likely put continentals on when they're dead, but only because I'm quite anal about tyres matching and it'll need rears replaced again before fronts.
Originally Posted by GVK.
You really don't like your Mrs do you Glenn?
Originally Posted by stu21t
Maybe if she put out a bit more he'd get some eagle f1s on there lol.
Originally Posted by GVK.
......and not have a 42,000 + post count
Originally Posted by RichieST
You obviously aren't buying much rubber for the end of your dick glenn, so you may as well get some nice rubber for the wife's car!
I got kumho's on the boxster ,thing is I used to put any old shit on my cars but then when I was a tyre tec I learned about compound construction etc and it gave me a new angle on somethink we think so little about and Id say you get some really good mid range tyres that are worth the exstra out lay over shig-shlong-brownstar slide masters .
22-11-2013, 09:37 PM
I'd rather have Chinese plastic tyres, at least they're cheap!
