Noob With Another Thread

[alik01]

Originally Posted by flinchy

google says matching track+tyre widths is the biggest thing to killing understeer?

Definitely not. Killing under-steer is like trying to kill off Batman...

The squared setup definitely does help reduce under-steer. The car is suspended with 'safe' under-steer built in and that is hard to remove. Hence the extensive suspension work a lot of people undertake.

I think the 130i/125i/etc... NA cars produce better results with the squared setup than the 135i - due to being a touch shorter on torque.

[web555]

Originally Posted by kaitan

WEb: at the end of the day how much would you like to spend. what is the tyre for? comfort or performance? you can't have both. I've got a 120d e87. yours the same?

Thought it would be courteous of me to post the outcome of my tyre dilemma.

I kept returning to kaitan's comment. And at the end of the day I've never considered a 120d to be a sports car. So, went ahead and shod it with Michelin MXV8's. Guess only time will tell if I've made a clanger, but so far I'm enjoying the drive down to Woolies and Dan Murphys without loosening my fillings on every bump.

Thoughout this exercise I found it interesting that the clear majority of tyre shops remained convinced that you replace RFT's with RFT's. I guess these people have never driven on RTF's.

Appreciate everyone's feedback and advice in this thread.

[kaitan]

Originally Posted by web555

Thought it would be courteous of me to post the outcome of my tyre dilemma.

I kept returning to kaitan's comment. And at the end of the day I've never considered a 120d to be a sports car. So, went ahead and shod it with Michelin MXV8's. Guess only time will tell if I've made a clanger, but so far I'm enjoying the drive down to Woolies and Dan Murphys without loosening my fillings on every bump.

Thoughout this exercise I found it interesting that the clear majority of tyre shops remained convinced that you replace RFT's with RFT's. I guess these people have never driven on RTF's.

Appreciate everyone's feedback and advice in this thread.

Hey web555, lol a few people will tell you otherwise whether it's a sport car or not especially those that have a tuned on it.

The main reason I think for some tyres shops ask you to go back to RFT it's becuase first they are more expensive. I might be wrong but there are some tyre shop that give you a honest opinion. They will mainly tell you that RFT is for your safety. I was even refuse by 1 tyre shop that I need to supply a confirmation from the insurance that I can run on normal tyre otherwise they wont sell the normal tyre to me, which i think it's bull**** but hey I might be wrong. They may have some agreement with insurance company.

I will still pick a fairly good tyre leaning toward performance as I have the m package therefore having a comfort tyre doesnt really much of a different for me but thats for me.