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[TheBoy]

Anyone got any personal experience of these tyres on an Omega, preferably in 235/40/18?

PM if preferred, I know its a touchy subject.

I couldn't give a rats arse on what you've heard, or tried on different cars, or read on the internet. I only care about personal experience on Omega.

TIA

[kevinp58]

Anyone got any personal experience of these tyres on an Omega, preferably in 235/40/18?

PM if preferred, I know its a touchy subject.

I couldn't give a rats arse on what you've heard, or tried on different cars, or read on the internet. I only care about personal experience on Omega.

TIA

I am sure cem will be along shortly 

[YZ250]

I've got 17" Goodyear Eagle F1 Assymmetric 2 on my estate if that's what you meant. It would be easier for you to drive it and then form your own opinion rather than me give you duff information, or you could try them on yours.
It may be my car, but they don't like crossing white lines or tar-mac road repairs that are varying heights, but they do stop ok.  I'm a straight-liner now so not really in a position to comment on when they break loose. 
Welcome to try them any time. 

[Entwood]

17" Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2's on the Elite Saloon. 235/45R17 97 Y Extra Load

No problems at all but my driving style is VERY different to yours, and the self levelling  will also make a big difference to handling, however my views so far (about 4000 miles)

Stop well both wet and dry
I've had no problems with "break away" bar one occasion when a prat forced me onto mega white lines in heavy rain, as I booted to get away from him it was "skittish" on  the lines and snapped right back on the tarmac -  a tad interesting for a few seconds ....
No tramlining
Slightly noisier than the previous Toyo's, and IIRC quite a bit noisier than the Falkens
Ride "seems" a little harsher, and "feels" the road surface much more, especially when cold - HOWEVER The fitting of these coincided with the fitting of the polybushes to the rear suspension and it may be that is the reason for the change, and not just the tyres.

If you get over Swidnod way you're welcome to a test drive any time

[cem_devecioglu]

first point, we have different sensitivities on tramlining.. 
 
I also use f1 Asy2 but their sizes 225 45 17 and they are used with spacers .. grip is good but sometimes they tramline..
 
and imo you have to drive them at least on 2 cars to have clear idea.. and I'm not sure you can hammer them on someone else's car..

[cem_devecioglu]

Here, although all michelines, bridgestones and goodyear ,conti models available in all sizes and models that you can visually and physically check,
 
 dunlops, especially performance models with bigger sizes cannot be found on shops..
 
they only bring them if you pay ..

[ozzycat]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

[cem_devecioglu]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

I have never seen any F1 hopeless even the old models
 
ps: goodyear is the owner of dunlop

[cem_devecioglu]

here is some interesting info I found before
 
"In the past all tyres were made from rubber, mixed with sulphur (to harden it) and carbon (to bulk it out). In the early nineties, tyre manufacturers realised that if you replace some of the carbon with silica you can make an 'eco' tyre. Silica adds to the grip of the tyre, so that you can use more sulphur and hence a harder rubber compound. So silica tyres have much lower rolling resistance, about the same grip in the dry, and actually much better grip in the wet. Michelin were the first manufacturer to do this with their 'Energy' tyres. Interesting Pirelli used an early version of the silica mix in their P6000 tyres, but they used too much sulphur and so the rubber was too hard.......
 
.........

SP01, NCT5, Excellence, SP2000, SP3000, SP9000, Ventura, are all silica tyres. Eagle F1 and SportMaxx are carbon tyres, hence are much softer.
"

[ozzycat]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

I have never seen any F1 hopeless even the old models
 
ps: goodyear is the owner of dunlop

thats just my opinion cem and yes i do know goodyear own dublop but still  prefer them to goodyear thats just my opinion

[cem_devecioglu]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

I have never seen any F1 hopeless even the old models
 
ps: goodyear is the owner of dunlop

thats just my opinion cem and yes i do know goodyear own dublop but still  prefer them to goodyear thats just my opinion

everyone is free to think anything Ozzy.. problem is, it doesnt sound logical to me that a firm owns a brand and its top class tyre is "incomparably" bad to the other brand  it owns

[feeutfo]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

There's valuable info there ozzy. They could help us to avoid problems in future.

Any chance you could find out exactly what tyre it was? We'd need all the details. Make, model, size, load and speed rating. If possible.

[cem_devecioglu]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

There's valuable info there ozzy. They could help us to avoid problems in future.

Any chance you could find out exactly what tyre it was? We'd need all the details. Make, model, size, load and speed rating. If possible.

cloudy weather Chris

[ozzycat]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

There's valuable info there ozzy. They could help us to avoid problems in future.

Any chance you could find out exactly what tyre it was? We'd need all the details. Make, model, size, load and speed rating. If possible.

ill see if ive still got the recipt chris but it was quite awile ago 
wheres the cloudy weather cem its loverly and sunny here

[ozzycat]

i liked the dulops on my mig never gave me any trouble and im not the slowest driver out there but the goodyears were hopeles only did 2000 miles before i took them off and gave them to my brother woulnt go in a straight line broke away on bendr in the wet & dry the last set i had wre coopers they wernt bad at all considering they were half the price of the dunlops  did about30000 miles on the last set of dunlops a good tyre as far as  im concerned

There's valuable info there ozzy. They could help us to avoid problems in future.

Any chance you could find out exactly what tyre it was? We'd need all the details. Make, model, size, load and speed rating. If possible.

ill see if ive still got the recipt chris but it was quite awile ago 
wheres the cloudy weather cem its loverly and sunny here

the size ect on both sets were the same 225/55 ZR 16 95W. goodyear eagle i dont know which dunlop they were like i said i preferd the dulop which seemed more stable than the goodyear there both good tyres but the dunlops were beter for me