Mondeo grip

Shite tyres?

That'll be the problem, then.

Get a set of P6000s all round and you'll be amazed at the difference.

If P6000s are beyond your budget, then look at Colway remoulds.

Certainly s**te brands. That said, the Volvo has s**te brand tyres too. The Ka invariably had Uniroyals as they gripped like f*ck.

My Leon Cupra came with Pirelli P6000 from the factory and they were s**te. I'd swear they were made from plastic rather than rubber. They did last until about 27K miles (swapped back to front once) and this was on a 235bhp FWD car. Just shows how hard the compound was.

Paul

Did you fidn them transmitting a lot of road noise too? I have htem on the Celica, and it feels a lot louder than the Saab on rough roads.

On my Focus, no, i've tried Mich Premacys and Goodyear NCT5's, but went back to the P6000's because of their excellant wet and dry grip, long life and reasonable price. I found none of the others to be quieter.

Tim.

I got 10000 out of my P6000s on a 205 TD/XS :(

Check the tracking...

You definitely need to hone your driving skills, then.

I'm lucky to see 10k miles from a pair of P6000s on the front of a FWD car, and they grip like shit to a shovel.

Are you _sure_ they were P6000s and not the lower spec P600s? - having said that, OEM P6000s may well be a different tyre to the one you can buy.

Steve, you should try other tyres. I used to think that too, but there are far better examples of 'gripping like shit to a shovel' tyres than P6000s!

I've tried Yokos, (A series are exceptional, S series exceptionally s**te), Dunlop SP200s, Goodyear NCT5s and Eagle Venturas, also P600s and some sort of Coopers.

Of them all, the P6000 is still my favourite tyre - maybe it's just that they work very well with s**te old Italian cars as they're made / designed in Italy?

Mine seems to grip fine. But then it's on Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 tyres.

Take some driving lessons, if you think P6000s are s**te, then you definitely need it.

All the tyres in that list are utter s**te, apart from parhaps the yokos. I had OEM P6000s on my focus, and they didn't grip wet or dry, squeeled like stuck pigs and didn't even last that long. There are definately better tyres out there.

I have to say, I prefer Avons to all of the above. P6000s are ok, Yokos are ok but only last about a week, Michelins last forever but don't grip, Toyos are made of plastic.

The SP200s on the front of the 75 are donkey's years old. P6000s are doing an admirable job of keeping the rear in line, though.

I've now got cheap'n'nasty Barums on the front of the Sierra and unknowns on the back. Still grips well, but that's 4wd for you.

Drives, rides and handles a shit load better on 15"s than it did on 17"s though. Doesn't tramline anymore either.

It's not *terrible*. The Volvo corners at 55 where the Ka managed 60. And the Volvo has a less optimistic speedo. Mondeo seems similar.

Hmmm, the Avons I had on the Saab were very quiet. Even on a double wishbone crashy frontend. Road noise was hardly noticable compared to the Pirellis.