Tyres

[Pal318is]

How do guys,

I'm getting some new tyres this week as my current ones are nearly buggered!!

Q.1 Does anyone reccomend any sort?? I might get the Falken FK451's?? any thoughts.....

Q.2 Should I fit 215/40 17's all round?? or would it be beneficial to have 205/40's on the front and 215/40's on the rear???

Any help would be good.
I'm getting the tyres for Ԛ£65 each, which I thought was pretty good....

[320Touring]

i'd recommend Toyo T1-s Proxies (i'm getting a set for my touring soon) very good in the wet and Immence gripi n the dry!

try this link

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php? ... b0s103p174

may be a good bet, and cheap too!

[Dom]

My 2p:

I found proxes to be crap in the wet, gave a fair amount of grip (not the best I've had but not the worse) but hardly any feedback. Grippy in the dry though.

I've got 215/40/17's all round. I think you're better off going 205 on the front. Mine tends to tramline all over the place...

[Davenotouring]

Shockingly, I've got 195/50/15's all round on my car.

To be honest, the handling is still good, as is breaking and acceleration.

My only concern is the speedo will be inaccurate, and I'm not certain the speed rating is high enough. I must check.

Tyres in this size are cheaper than 205/55/15s etc.

[320Touring]

Dom, tis cool! your opinion is as valid as mine! I only have experience of them on FWD cars-so maybe thats a factor?!

Dave-I'm gonna be fitting 195/50R15's to my touring-apparentkly it'll read a little slow?!

camskill are doing 4x toyos in 195/50/R15 for Ԛ£119-would be rude not to!

[Davenotouring]

I think it'll overread with the 195's.

That is a brilliant price, I'm tempted to stock up!!

I think my speedo was for some reason overreading anyway so maybe it's not changed too much, but with these tyres, the rolling circumference is about 5% smaller

[6potWil6pot]

Ive found the Toyo T1-R fine in the wet, great feedback and grip, havent tried the old T1-S myself tho.

[Dom]

that might be it, I'm on the T1-S's...