I keep looking for a decent cheap tyre but they just dont seem to work well on the miggy
It came with michelins (cant recall which) , they were reasonable in the dry, ok ish in the wet
then had Falken FK452's - I have these on my TVR and Golf and for those cars they are great but on the miggy I suffered a bit of tramlining, grip was ok wet and dry
Then I tried Falken ZE912's, ok in the dry, very average in the wet and when about half way worn quite dodgy in the wet.
I have now gone for Continental Sport Contact 3's on the rear and they are excellent (only about 2000 miles on them but so far so good). Good grip dry and wet, back end feels a bit more planted. Gettin them on the front next week too.
Contis were cheapest at WIM , even cheaper than camskill and as I was there having Geo done it made sense for them to fit them.
How much were the Conti's. I'm in the market for new tyres, mine suffers horribly with tramlining at the moment with Pirelli P zero Rosso, absolutely hate them..
similar experience as bigdods i think except all on the omega, 452 on pfl felt alot better and quiter than previos Pirreli p9000, but given that the p9000s where mullered on the inside edge and noisy in comparrison, that made the falkens when new seem like a godsend, now bare in mind this is pre forum days, i didnt know about camber and set up and tram lining, never mind wishbone failure etc , all things are relative, so the falkens are a good tyre, right? continued with falkens but spent my life with 2.5cdx trying to stop it tramlining, wishbones fitted( not torqued correctly, pre forum days remember) set ups, wheel barings, lemforder wisbones fitted and so on. Didnt know it was the tyres causing the tramlining, so when i got my current 3.2 i thought i'd try the harder 912's, ok to start with but noticed a wonder at the back and alot of pulling on the steering wheel from road inperfections.
Now this was worrying, having raved initially about falken tyres on threads such as this, with help from prominant members on here i was able to swap wheels shod with a couple of Dunlop models, sport maxx and sp 9000 iirc ,transformed the car for the better, and made the mv6's the falkens where fitted to handel worse, but not the same as my elite, i put the rest down to mv6 suspension and the fact we only swapped two wheels.
Why where the 912s so bad? bloody awful, said The Boy...exceptionally soft sidewalls in construction maybe? i dont know, but at least 3 other more enthusiastic drivers on here have experienced the 912 and found them the same, excessive bump steer and appalling directional stabillity, but exceptionally quiet and a comfy ride, i would add grip is poor in wet and dry as they often set off the abs and tc, i had them on for 13k and binned them with 3 or 4 mill of tread left, appalling tyres.
So why did i rave about them at the start? because relatively they where better than what was fitted previosly, very quiet and good ride, took me years and several thousand miles to work out they have the structural rigidity of a water balloon...avoid.
Some members seem happy with the 912, but have a higher profile size, or perhaps driving style means less body roll meaning the profile accross the width stays squarer?
anyway, currently conti sc3 fitted, well happy, awesome grip in comparrison, tad noisier but a small price to pay for less tramlining, Dunlops feel very planted but road noise is poor, a general consensus there too.
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