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Talk to me about tyres please
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Contipremiumcontact
185/65 R 15 H
In your first post you asked about fitting a higher spec tyre due to your motorway commute.
Continental do several high -performance 'ContiSportContact' tyres - but not in such a small diameter or narrow tyre as you need.
So sticking with the ContiPremiumContact is your best bet.
The PremiumContact is a damn good tyre.0 -
FreddieFrugal wrote: »Try Black Circles - you can order them fitted online, they deliver to a local fitter, you can choose which is nearest/preferred.If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.0
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Just to add fuel to the oversteer fire. FWD were and are intended to make cars easy to drive, why not? They pull you round corners, are usually safe and tend to understeer gently, taking a wider arc round a corner, if you hit it too fast. As RWD is now in the minority, most drivers haven't experienced them, don't even think about their slightly different characteristics, until they turn round and bite you. Even with decent tyres on a poor surface, too heavy acceleration on a fwd will probably get you wheelspin and, just maybe, a wiggle off line from the rear. The novice rwd driver better hope that his first lead foot moment just gets him wheelspin and no go. More than likely it will quickly become a car travelling sideways with spinning back wheels because the driver is frozen in fear. Tales and cliches of BMWs, Porsches, even humble Mercs travelling into fields backend first are told because they are true. FWD flatters very average drivers into thinking they are good, instead of appreciating their cars inherent build.
Much easier for the (unsteerable) back end to have the best of the available grip on either a fwd or rwd car. You really don't want chassis characteristics beginning to cross your mind just as you experience, for the first time, your rearend trying to overtake you.
With all wheel drive, have decent rubber all round, you don't want an unbalanced car, neither do you want to be wearing out expensive transmissions components.0 -
http://www.blackcircles.com/catalogue/continental/premium-contact-5/185/65/R15/H/88/f?returnurl=%2forder%2ftyres%3f%26viewmanufacturer%3dcontinental&tyre=30416998
http://www.blackcircles.com/catalogue/continental/Conti-Eco-Contact-5/185/65/R15/H/88/f?returnurl=%2forder%2ftyres%3f%26viewmanufacturer%3dcontinental&tyre=30415384
Premium Contact 5 vs Eco Contact 5
Am I just looking at a bit more economy vs a slightly better (will I even notice?) breaking distance? The price difference isn't enough to sway me either way.
I'm not sure about the winter tyres because I tend to avoid driving in the snow/really bad weather (I can work from home) and I don't think I'd want to change them myself so it would end up rather expensive.0 -
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FWD were and are intended to make cars easy to drive"Einstein never said most of the things attributed to him" - Mark Twain0
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Tyretraders are very competitive.0
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All season tyres are great,have a full set of Vector4 on our runabout car and there brilliant, was great fun in the snow leaving other cars behind like I was driving a Land Rover, went up some big hills too, stopping distance was much better too so safer in bad weather.0
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