All season tyres

[Symone]

Is it only the imports that come fitted with Goodyear Eagle F1 all season tyres or do you have the option to have these when you ordered your UK mustang , my F150 Lightning also came with these on from factory and proved quite good for me.

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[SSC]

We get only the P-Zeros, no options for picking any different tyres unfortunately. US side gets a huge amount of options, we are extremely limited with ours. :frusty:

 

[marks]

An F150 is a truck so makes sense to have all season tyres. Not sure why you'd fit all seasons to a performance car?!

 

[Manders Mustang]

An F150 is a truck so makes sense to have all season tyres. Not sure why you'd fit all seasons to a performance car?!

I'd fit ice skates over the Pzero's... anything but the pzero's on the rears

 

[Symone]

An F150 is a truck so makes sense to have all season tyres. Not sure why you'd fit all seasons to a performance car?!

Actually the F150 lightning is a supercharged muscle truck 2wd and was worlds fastest truck when it came out ,therefore it needed performance tyres

 

[goldengooner]

Is it only the imports that come fitted with Goodyear Eagle F1 all season tyres or do you have the option to have these when you ordered your UK mustang , my F150 Lightning also came with these on from factory and proved quite good for me.

On all the California Specials you have P Zeros A/S which do the job very well

 

[Big_G]

The V6 comes with All Season, the rest get PZero

 

[TimG]

I wanted to fit winter tyres, the supplying dealer could not help as their supplier would not recommend anything. Ford customer service would not help despite the road test car supplied to Autocar being on winters. I wanted a second set of wheels & the tyre pressure sensors IDs cloning so I could just swap without recalibration.
It was very difficult to get the required info on TPMS . Seems Ford dealers cannot or will not clone the sensors. A local supplier sorted out the sensors & tyres for me, I'm currently on Nokian WRA4 tyres. I cancelled the Ford sensors I ordered with the wheels. Wheels took 6 weeks to arrive as rears were nor immediately available.
Since fitting the winter tyres my fuel consumption has improved. On a 800 mile round trip in December on mostly A road & motorway I averaged 29 mpg up from 27 mpg for the same trip in August. Maybe driving more soberly in winter conditions or more miles & engine loosened up or the tyres could be factors.

 

[sjr311083]

Just a quick question here. Would it give me more grip if I kept the factory fitted pzeros on the front and got the michelins for the rear?

 

[croyde]

I'm running Michelins on the rear with the original zeros on the front and the way the car handles and grips is amazing compared to how it handled the cold and wet with the Pirellis on the rear.

 

[Gibbo205]

Just a quick question here. Would it give me more grip if I kept the factory fitted pzeros on the front and got the michelins for the rear?

Well it is simple physics.

Grip at the front will be the same as now. Grip at the rear shall increase.

So the car will lean more towards understeer if you put tyres with more grip on the rear and as for most understeer less bunch clenching, it is typically safer than oversteer particular for more in-experienced RWD drivers.

 

[sjr311083]

Great thanks for this. I think I will go down this route particularly for the first year of ownership or possibly just see how the Pzeros are and then just change the rears if there is too much slip.

 

[Manders Mustang]

Great thanks for this. I think I will go down this route particularly for the first year of ownership or possibly just see how the Pzeros are and then just change the rears if there is too much slip.

I run MPSS on the rear, PZ's on the front, don't worry about it, they're grippy as shit, i'd still be cautious in certaint emps/conditions but the tyres have never given me anything to worry about, the pzeros It'd be a case of gentle acceleration in the wet etc. :lol:

 

[sjr311083]

Great thanks again!

 

[Gibbo205]

Great thanks for this. I think I will go down this route particularly for the first year of ownership or possibly just see how the Pzeros are and then just change the rears if there is too much slip.

My advice if your new to RWD, make use of wet mode at this time of year.

Our cars in normal mode have very relaxed traction control, a good thing in the summer as its not so intrusive, but it does mean in the cold/wet it tends to let the car slide too much and if the driver does not catch that slide then by the time the TC kick in normal mode it does not catch it either.

So make use of wet mode and if you can find a big enough area or a big empty roundabout, go and play in the wet. Drive in a circle in each mode stamping the loud pedal. You will see in wet mode it either totally prevents the rear from kicking or it moves marginally then catches it, in normal mode you can get quite a lot of angle and if your not doing the correct things it can spin, more so in sport and race.

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