El Cat

hi there looking for advice on tyres please
currently have toyo proxes but the life of these has been pretty poor
anything for the same money that anyone else recommends????
you can currently get 4 of these 205/40/17 for £220 on ebay so looking at similiar price

bpm1588

falken's 452's are highly rated for the money,camskills are about the best priced for these

El Cat

is there a link somewhere for them?? what sort of price are they??
are they better than the proxes??
mine were great but did not last at all

bpm1588

FALKEN TYRES / CAR / FALKEN FK452 FALKEN FK 452 - 205/40R17 84Z XL : £51.10 : Car Tyres - MPV Tyres - People Carrier Tyres : R17" - 205/40/17, 205/40 R 17 -

can't say if they are better than the toyo's but at least as good.will be a few quid less for sure

El Cat

205/40-17 VR NANKANG NS -11 2054017 on eBay, also, Tyres, Car Wheels, Tyres Trims, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 06-May-08 12:28:09 BST)
any good????

bpm1588

i fitted nankang's a few years back just to get a car mot'd and sold as cheaply as i could but i have to say they were the worst tyre i have ever had on any car.....steer clear!

El Cat

thanks for the advice
some goon i know had them and said they were good
then i remembered he has an EFFING MUNDANO (mondeo)
do the falkens last bettwer than the proxes
my brother wants some too
me being a **** just realised those are the wheel size from my old scoob!!
they are actually 205/45/16

bpm1588

i remember someone off here getting 25.000 miles out of the falkens but they must'nt drive that hard! i do know over on typera.co.uk a lot of guy rate them very highly and do get more miles out of them than the toyo's....i guess its all about your driving style etc.

to be honest if your running 205/45/16's i'd think about the goodyear f1's at 70 odd quid,they are up there with the very best

bushiwarrior

eagle f1's or pirelli's get decent tyres it the only thing stopping you from leaving the road.

El Cat

seems most people are of the same opinion as i was already
not much life in PROXES???
i dont even drive hard and went through a front set in 4000
thats just going to work and back, they are crappy country lanes with stonechippingsurfaces where i drive tho

andythejock01wrx

Seconded. Car had Nankangs on when I bought it - I initially thought the legendary Impreza grip in the wet was a myth, they were so bad !

Find the Toyo T1R excellent. did the OP have those or the Toyo T1S ?

WRX_Dazza

i'm on my second set of Yoko Parada's.

seem to do the job well enough for me

robby

I work for a tyre depot and the most popular tyres at a decent price are Kuhmo - KU31s being the better ones

The tyre fitters say their customers rate them as good as most main brands and they last even longer

thesyn

Yup another vote for K homo!

hux309

205/40-17 YOKOHAMA PARADA SPEC-2 84W 2054017 on eBay, also, Tyres, Car Wheels, Tyres Trims, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 25-May-08 10:14:11 BST)

martwrxsl

I thought Eagle F1's were supposed to be the best tires for an impreza?

scooby-tc

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i find vredestein sessanta much better than F1s

martwrxsl

Never heard of them before. With goodyear you are paying for a name but what's good enough for f1 is good enough for me. I think for most people's driving on road it not going to make that much difference in all honesty. What are the semi slick looking tires they seem to fit to 18's on sti's. Surely they can't be any good in the wet?

beef-on-the-bone

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i've just bought 4 yoko parada spec 2's, just waiting for delivery...................... (fingers crossed.......)

scooby-tc

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martwrxsl

They are not the semi slick one's fitted to most sti's!

scooby-tc

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No they are the sessantas you have never heard of the tyres fitted to import STis are Bridgestone RE070 and yuo will be very hard pushed to find them in the UK

lunar tick

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Sessantas are great tyres, but they wear very quickly - I've gone through a set in 9 months. I'm trying the new Goodyear F1 Assymetrics next

Matty WRX

I've just put a set of Bridgstone RE050's as recommended by Subaru on the rear of my '01 WRX. I'm really impressed at the mo and they have good bite, so they will also be going on the front.

The guy at the tyre center was real decent, bored the **** off me with all the talk about the coding on the tyres but he knew his stuff. the RE 040's i have on the front are Lexus spec as they no longer make the RE040 for the Impreza and the RE050 is the correct subaru OEM.

just me 2p worth

Speech

No, don't do it!!
The EP3 Civic Type R (last version, not the new one) came with RE-050's on as standard and although these were awesome tyres in the dry I found them to be shocking in the wet, in fact it only had to think about being wet and they gave up.
Eagle F1 GSD3's are current tyre of choice, although waiting to see how a mate gets on with the Assymetrics.

Matty WRX

Thanks for letting me know dude, and i thought that as well!!! I used to have an '04 CTR and hated the tyres on it which were RE 050's. so when the guy was talking about approved subaru and all that jazz with the RE050 i thought i'd give them a roll. i did have S03's on the rear and they were a little strange in the wet and didn't seem to have much bite at any other time. i've just been out in the awful rain and blatted up the A40 near Oxford and tried the standing water!!! nothing at all to report, the motor stayed straight and made me smile lol, i know the road real well and have aquaplanned many a motor lol! but on the CTR they were awful.... weird though it is, i like them and will be putting them up front. i suppose different setups have different effects. and it's worth checking the full code on your tyres before buying.

T20Driver

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Last year Evo Mag did a test on performance tyres .... here is a summary ... and I am with Daz (Scoobtc) ... excellent Sessanta weather at the moment !!

I have a scan of the pages so if anyone can host I can link in the file ... its about 2mb pdf file

Overall Results

1/ Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric (c.£116) - 96.4/100
2/ Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta (c.£100) - 95.3/100
3/ Continental Contisport Contact 3 (c.£125) - 93.5/100
4/ Bridgestone Protenza RE050-A (c.£123) - 92.7/100
5/ Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 (c.£133) - 92.4/100
6/ Pirelli Pzero Nero (c.£130) - 92.0/100
7/ Kumho Ecsta STP (c.£89) - 88.7/100
8/ Dunlop Sport Maxx (c.£117) - 86.0/100
9/ Yokohama S.Drive (c.£106) - 82/100

Avon declined to take part and Toyo failed to get tyres to them in time.
Prices are av price for purchase incl fitting and VAT

Top 3 in wet - straight line

1/ Goodyear
2/ Vredestein
3/ Continental

Top 3 in wet - cornering

1/ Goodyear
2/ Vredestein
3/ Continental

Top 3 in wet - subjective driver assessment

1/ Vredestein
2/ Goodyear
3/ Continental

Top 3 aqua-planing - straight line

1/ Dunlop
2/ Bridgestone
3/ Continental

Top 3 aqua-planing - cornering

1/ Vredestein
2/ Bridgestone
3/ Goodyear

Top 3 braking - wet

1/ Goodyear
2/ Bridgestone
3/ Continental

Top 3 braking - dry

1/ Michelin
2/ Vredestein
3/ Bridgestone

Top 3 economy

1/ Yokohama
2/ Michelin
3/ Kumho

Top 3 dry - straight

1/ Goodyear
2/ Michelin
3/ Bridgestone

Top 3 dry - cornering

1/ Goodyear
2/ Michelin
3/ Bridgestone

Top 3 dry - subjective driver assessment

1/ Goodyear
2/ Bridgestone
3/ Pirelli

Top 3 road - subjective driver assessment

1/ Vredestein
2/ Dunlop
3/ Michelin