Tyre Comparo - Which Ones Are Good?

[234Fpv]

I've had yokohama v-103's, they were awesome tyres. Awesome traction wet or dry, nice and quiet but bloody expensive at $500ea and very poor wearing. Now I have the falken 452's, seem really good for the price but a bit noisy, especially when turning. Have only done 5,000kms so far and seem to be wearing well. The v-103's were swapped at 12,000kms. Could've got a bit more out of the front but not much. The rears got a hard time at my wedding so that helped but for the price I'll stay with the falkens.

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[RIP_HSV]

Which Fedreral 595's Lee rpm or evo's?

[dalts]

Hey ben,they are just called 595 now pretty aggressive v shape tread pattern,the Evo are the next step up! I will be going them next time as they were the same price,but the shop didn't have them in stock and I needed tyres badly!

All I wanted is something that will hold the power from 80km upwards and they are doing a pretty good job.

Cheers lee

[Garrettba03]

Well after doing hours and hours of research on the net through tonnes of test reviews, customer reviews and wanting to go as wide as reasonably possible on stock rims I narrowed it down to 3 tyres:

245/40/17 GY F1 Asymmetric

245/40/17 GY F1 Asymmetric 2

255/40/17 Dunlop SpSport Maxx TT (not the old sport maxx)

These tyres seem to have the best balance of wet grip/aquaplaning/wear for the price overall with good dry traction. I was really after the wet traction as any good tyre should be good in dry and currently had wet grip issues

All the cheaper options seemed to have poor customer reviews when they wore down/noise/traction/sidewall squish etc which I didnt want to stuff around with.

The dunlop in the 255s were a fairly wide actual tread vs the Goodyear which was a bit skinnier for a 245. Being closer to stock overall tyre thickness, I went the dunlops. Having used them before and being very happy in the wet I decided to go the same way again.

After about 500kms the tyres scrubbed in good and due to all the rain got good chance to test them out and im very impressed. The other crap tyres on the rear would let go straight away in the wet (toyo teo plus utter garbage) and when I put my foot downsmoothly from take off I just got...traction. After I was a bit more aggressive and flat out seccond gear change very slow and progressive break away never just spinning up... spun slowly kept scrabbling for traction and stayed totally straight.

I had to drop the psi in the front tyres to try and get more grip reducing understeer (note superpro bushes in front end just been done) with the extra grip I have at rear now but im at 34psi and cant go any lower cause they feel squishy and in the dry not AS noticable but in the wet it pushes... HARD (dunlop sp fast response on the front 235s)

How much of this is due to the tyre and how much to the 255 tyre width I dont know but..

Im happy and will be getting the same tyres on the front....after injectors and tune coming first... :-)

Edited 21/08/11 07:53 AM by Garrettba03

[TER80D]

Just thought I'd throw my 2c out there. Replaced all 4 OEM Dunlops on my G6E Turbo with some Falken 452's (245/35/19) and the difference is remarkable. Grip in the dry is improved but grip in the wet is just superb compared to the Dunlops. In the wet the Dunlops felt twitchy as though the car just wanted to trow itself sideways anytime just for the hell of it. I actually feel like I'm in control with the Falkens.

I managed to score them for $290 each fitted and I'm pretty happy I did. This is only my second set of tyres on the car so I don't have a wealth of experience but to say the Falkens over the Dunlops was night and day is an understatement

[FG50T]

Had my Nitto Invo's on for nearly a week now coming off Michelin PS3. Grip is incredible, traction is probably a touch better than how it was stock which is great for 290rwkw now. I foot down at 80 in the wet (big safe country road) and only turned the tyre for a split second, I'd think twice about doing that in the DRY with the Michelins. Handling also a big improvement, they ride so smooth they're putting my front P-zero's to shame. Awesome stuff.

[Howsee]

I ran federal 595SS on my old XR6T with 360rwkw and was really really impressed with them for the price. I now have ordered the same for my GS which is running about 370rwkw on the Dunlop 245/35/19, for $230 fitted I'm laughing.

Bang for your buck I'm not sure of other tyres that can compete with the federal 595

[f6mark]

LOL .. wow howsee. new tyre's for the GS allreedy mate.. your hard on the Gear mate..

[Howsee]

That's what you get with big hp mate

Bahahaha

[nick d]

Just bought 2 tyres Dunlop SPSport Maxx TT(245-35-19)couldn't find another that was value for money.

Fitted them yesterday looking forward to driving them in the wet but very impressed so far will need to invest in another 2 soon might get the same all around.

Keep you posted.