Olsrey
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Registered: 13th Jan 07
Location: Bradford Drives: LET Vectra B
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What pielli have you tried though?
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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p7000 and 9000 iirc
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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Cheshire police do, or did use Pirelli's.
Nor seen many of those in a hedge tbh.
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Steve
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had them on my 106 and megane i think, they were really really bad for traction and horrendous for grip on the back end
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Corsa E-Tec
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Registered: 4th Feb 04
Location: Stevenage Drives: Leon Cupra
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rainsports where a good buy when i had them on me corsa.
ecsta's wern't to bad and some plank fitted my car with accelera, bloody dangerous.
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Steve
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best tyres i ever had were nankangs
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22B
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quote:
Originally posted by Olsrey
Ive had firestones, acelera and both have thrown me off the road in hot conditions and arent even worth rating in the wet. Moved to proxies t1-r's and were brilliant in normal conditions but not so good in the wet. Eagle F1's are by far the best tyre ive used so far in my driving life 
How can they have thrown you off the road, driving past the limits of them maybe?
I just normally stick to Toyos T1s or T1R, but have recently got a set of BF goodrich, seem to be lasting ages, very hard compound tyre and gives fairly good dry grip and not bad in the wet
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22B
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
best tyres i ever had were nankangs
Road champs are better
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Olsrey
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quote:
Originally posted by 22B
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Originally posted by Olsrey
Ive had firestones, acelera and both have thrown me off the road in hot conditions and arent even worth rating in the wet. Moved to proxies t1-r's and were brilliant in normal conditions but not so good in the wet. Eagle F1's are by far the best tyre ive used so far in my driving life
How can they have thrown you off the road, driving past the limits of them maybe?
I just normally stick to Toyos T1s or T1R, but have recently got a set of BF goodrich, seem to be lasting ages, very hard compound tyre and gives fairly good dry grip and not bad in the wet
Yes past there limits but never had that problem with Eagle F1's due to them being a better gripping tyre
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Joe
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Registered: 20th Jun 04
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What size tyres are they? What kind of driving do you do? Firestone are by no means a 'budget' tyre but I can't really comment on their performance too much.
Also I can't see many 'performance' cars that Dave trys using Firestones to be honest.
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by 22B
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Originally posted by Steve
best tyres i ever had were nankangs
Road champs are better
never had road champs, but had road hogs, they were very good for a 13" wheel and lasted a long time, i can recommend them
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22B
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
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Originally posted by 22B
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Originally posted by Steve
best tyres i ever had were nankangs
Road champs are better
never had road champs, but had road hogs, they were very good for a 13" wheel and lasted a long time, i can recommend them
lol Road Champs were obviously the 1 up, had a set on some 13" wheels years ago, they took some abuse, I asked for the 2nd cheapest tyre, think they were around £15, the tread pattern was like a trailer tyre
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jr
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J18 felt so so much chuckable and better on nankang ditchfinders than hankooks
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Steve
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yes i recommend nankangs
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Edd
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quote:
Originally posted by joe6886
What size tyres are they? What kind of driving do you do? Firestone are by no means a 'budget' tyre but I can't really comment on their performance too much.
Also I can't see many 'performance' cars that Dave trys using Firestones to be honest.
as i said joe i know their not budget
tyre is 205/45/16 and can get them £70 fitted or i can get rainsports £75 fitted
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