Tyres

Ardennes1944

I dont expect this thread to go anywhere seeing as how theres already too many tyre threads here. I recently got new alloys with a mixture of conti's ,dunlop and bridgstone. Not the perfect set up at all i know but its been lashing almost non stop in cork the last 2 days and the difference between them and the almost new infinitys they replaced is enormous. I was never sold on spending €50+ for a premium tyre but im sold on it now. Its like a different car. No sliding in the wet at all and body roll seems to have vanished almost totally.

Those guys really know how to make a tyre!

Ardennes1944

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

........... No sliding in the wet at all and body roll seems to have vanished almost totally.

Those guys really know how to make a tyre!

The reduction in body roll is due to the lower profile, you'd have the same if your new wheels were wearing the Infinity yokes The grip is a different matter

Ardennes1944

Ive driven 225/40/18 before on crap tyres and the body roll was extreme.....along with their ditchfinding capabilities

CiniO

Anyway I had infinity's on my car once and said - never again.

After I moved from Poland to Ireland, I found out that most local garages would advice those cheap chinese tyres. I never seen any of them in Poland, but I heard of them nothing good.
Anyway - I thought that if all local garages sell them and advice them, then they can't be that bad.
Unfortunately I was wrong. They were absolutely utter 5hite.

Ardennes1944

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Ive driven 225/40/18 before on crap tyres and the body roll was extreme.....along with their ditchfinding capabilities

On your car?

Ardennes1944

Civic bah, and ive driven a few of them

mickdw

I know what the OP means re body roll difference between tyres. Ive had tyres on the back of my car that genuinely made it feel like I had moved the the rear wheels inward by about 6" each side and gave a severe loss of stability too.