long lasting and good grip tyres (galway)

cor1.3

anyone recommend long lasting tyres with good grip?

and anyone ever tried komor tyres?

thanks

Big Nasty

Never heard of them!

Rule of thumb is grippy tyres wear fast as they're a softer compound (and more expensive) while economy tyres tend to be longer lasting but hard compound (less grip).

Tell us the car and we can recommend accordingly!

cor1.3

cor1.3 wrote: »

and anyone ever tried komor tyres?

Kumho? Kormoron?

cor1.3

Deleted User wrote: »

Kumho? Kormoron?

sorry, kormoran.

car is a toyota corolla e11 g6 (1.3)

I had kormoran impulser B summer tyres on the front of a 1.3 corolla.
Dry grip is very good, wet grip not great. wear is very very good.
Replaced them with kumho kh17's which have far superior grip wet and dry but wearing faster. Thats all I have to compare to really though!

edit: Got the kumho's in hannover tyre on bohermore.

cor1.3

ya ive heard kumho tyres aren't very long lasting.

ive been also looking at bfgoodrich profiler tyres which seem to last ages but i dont know how they are on grip

gyppo

cor1.3 wrote: »

ya ive heard kumho tyres aren't very long lasting.

ive been also looking at bfgoodrich profiler tyres which seem to last ages but i dont know how they are on grip

I had kumhos on a mondeo and I could'nt wait to wear them out - I thought i'd never see the back of the buggers. Noisy, hopeless grip, crap.
The only good thing I could say about them is they appeared to last a long time.

rai555

look at treadwear index on the tyre - it will tellya, seen 180 , 250 - more is harder and lasts longer

Joe 90

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Never heard of them!

Rule of thumb is grippy tyres wear fast as they're a softer compound (and more expensive) while economy tyres tend to be longer lasting but hard compound (less grip).

Tell us the car and we can recommend accordingly!

Agreed. More grip=less mileage.
I remember when the BMW 1600 first appeared in Ireland in the late 60s. Brilliant car but the grip was badly degraded in the wet. Still light years ahead of most things on the roads then but poor grip in the wet compared with the dry. They came on Continentals.

A few years later i heard a taxi operator giving a discourse on tyres. His conclusion was that for the price you could not beat the Continentals. They lasted forever.

General rule is to find out which tyre gives the worst mileage. That should be the one with the best grip in the wet. Lots of other things to consider but that is a good starting point.

Speaking of course as someone who considers that road behaviour is the only thing that matters when choosing tyres.

dave o brien

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