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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:43 am |
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Joined: Jun 19, 2010
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Location: South Bucks
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If you tyre dealer/fitter is any good, he'll swap the wheels anyway. New tyres go on rear regardless of which wheels drive .. and in my local fitters, there are plenty of signs to tell clients that!
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:49 am |
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Joined: Nov 27, 2010
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Location: What's it to you? ? ?
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| gazza82 wrote: |
| If you tyre dealer/fitter is any good, he'll swap the wheels anyway. New tyres go on rear regardless of which wheels drive .. and in my local fitters, there are plenty of signs to tell clients that! |
Wasting your time, its been done to death already 
Let the fools do what they want.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:48 am |
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Joined: Nov 15, 2011
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What diffrence does it really make? The both rear tyres have plenty of tread on em so why would it matter were the new ones go on the car?
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:52 pm |
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Joined: Apr 13, 2010
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Location: Leeds
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I always swap them round so they all wear out together.. That way always put 4 new ones on together.
I only do it so all 4 match... I'd hate to need 2 new tyres and not be able to get 2 to match what's on.
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:45 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 347
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Location: Slovenia
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Just don't buy those awful Bridgestone Potenza re050a. Okay-ish for the first season, but complete rubbish in the beginning of second especially in the rain  . I will replace them with Federal 595rsr, but I doubt many of you UK folks are going to buy it as it's a "semi slick" tire 
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:49 pm |
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Joined: Feb 14, 2010
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Location: Wales
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Just picked up 3 Toyo Proxes T1 R's for my 180, got a budget on the front so not the full set but quite impressed so far, had KUMHO KU31s before and couldnt fault them but thought I'd see what the Toyos were like
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:34 pm |
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595SR is one of the worse choices....
in fact i don't trust chinese tyre at all
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:06 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: In the garage
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Evo tyre test says there is very little difference in dry cornering grip with all tyres. It's in the wet that the best tyres make themselves known.
In a braking test by the time the Continental Sport Contact 3 had stopped, the Accelera tyre was still doing 20mph.
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:03 pm |
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Joined: Oct 22, 2010
Posts: 319
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Location: long eaton, derbyshire
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ive got falkens on the front on mine.
not sure if its a nationwide thing, but trying to find somewhere that can balnce the centreless wheels locally was a right ballache...
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:30 pm |
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Joined: Nov 27, 2010
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| longeatonlad wrote: |
not sure if its a nationwide thing, but trying to find somewhere that can balnce the centreless wheels locally was a right ballache... |
Its called lazyness, a lot of places are to lazy to fit the adaptor for the centreless rims on the wheel balancing machine.
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