ooo new tyre's

D'oh no falkens so got uni royals, they seem ok so far, HUGE tread on these, wouldn't look outta place on an off roader! hehe still will use etyres.co.uk and go for the yoko's or Toyo T1's next time :)

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Which uniroyals? Rallye 550s? Had them on the Volvo and they were bloody good! Now 2 of them are on the MX5 and improved the handling lots!

rallye 440's i think these say? there damn big and wide mind! 225/55/15

LOL at Vamp and his Volvo tractor tyres.

in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, "Carl Gibbs" slurred :

Aye - got them on my '205 & '405 and they are very good in the wet. (and the dry, but then pretty mvch all tyres are fine in the dry...)

no joke mate! some serious tread on these things! managed to lose traction going into 2nd today and the noise was great :) nice good screach! mind you i don't think my clutch liked it :)

I haven't managed to get anything to unstick in the GT4, mind you I do tend to launch and coner like your granny (too old to tart about).

Maybe it is the natural understeer bias and wear in the bushes. I have been told that the uprated ARB and new bushes I have on order, along with the decat pipe will help give it back a slight WRC style tailout stance on corners.

excellent! we want pics if it does too and not the after pics of it up a tree :)

Just been looking at them. Do you know how difficult it is to locate a set of 215/50x15 Z rated tyres.

Nope :)

I'll see if I can get it to slide when it is fitted. Might be a while yet though. I ordered them from 935motorsport in the US in January. Mid feb said there would be a 4 week wait from order until the parts arrived in the US from Australia, but only 1 week wait for the downpipe which he would hold onto until the Whiteline kit arrived.

Still says awaiting Whiteline on the order status online. Might be a month or two before I can get it booked in and afford to get them fitted.

The Caramic brake pads arrived, but the discs are in worse state than I imagined, so rather than knacker some new pads on a set of shagged discs, I have some DBA RooPaws on order from SRB power.

Grooved discs and ceramic pads should help things stop abit, and help the ABS show itself.

I seem to be able to get Pirelli P7000's that are on it now no problem, might be able to get Toyos OK, but Bridgestones don't seem to make the Potenza in a 15" 50 series in that width, even 17" seems to be harder to find. Loads in 205 and 225 or wider, but 215 seems to be a silly size.

I do quite fancy 17" MOs or OZ superturismo WRC's, but something else in my head says find a set of 15 or 16" OZ Rally Racing Gravel wheels and pay over the odds for them.