New Tyre recommendations

[RDS]

Buying tyres for a Mustang based on mileage you get from them is a bit left field. Buy tyres for grip and feeling and remember tyres are cheaper than bodywork. Obv imho

Why? Its the first listed criterion, then wet rating then noise rating.
Tyres having grip goes without saying, surely.
Bodywork damage due to the tyre? Think ahead and don't get into that situation.

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[raptor17GT]

Why? Its the first listed criterion, then wet rating then noise rating.
Tyres having grip goes without saying, surely.
Bodywork damage due to the tyre? Think ahead and don't get into that situation.

It might be listed as the first item but personally I look at wet rating first since I live in the wet north. Rim protection is also a biggy but grip is easily up there level pegging with the other two. Tyre noise, I don't worry about it.

Bodywork damage due to shit tyres not having grip to either stop the car quick enough to avoid someone else's accident or being unable to turn around someone else in my lane and therefore having your own accident into the bargain. But hey, what do I know? I got rear ended at a stop light. While I was sitting stationary in neutral.

Ultimately your car and any advice given is yours to take or leave.

 

[MarkM]

You weren't the person with a Transit complaining about the tread life on another hankook tyre were you? there was one.

not me, no

Rim protection is very important, we’ve all done it

 

[RDS]

at the risk of tiring anyone, please rest assured that I tread as carefully as I can so as not to curb my enthusiasm.

 

[RDS]

It might be listed as the first item but personally I look at wet rating first since I live in the wet north. Rim protection is also a biggy but grip is easily up there level pegging with the other two. Tyre noise, I don't worry about it.

Bodywork damage due to shit tyres not having grip to either stop the car quick enough to avoid someone else's accident or being unable to turn around someone else in my lane and therefore having your own accident into the bargain. But hey, what do I know? I got rear ended at a stop light. While I was sitting stationary in neutral.

Ultimately your car and any advice given is yours to take or leave.

All advice is gratefully received and evaluated.

It is all a trade-off and different things appeal to different people.

It rains here too but you can't use the inherent performance of any car down here without getting pulled or snapped immediately.

In your accident, the grip of your tyres wont have saved you and I say this as a still keen motorcyclist hit up the back at the lights by a bus on my test. As a motorcyclist, you learn quickly to stay back and think ahead. Goes for car drivers too.

 

[raptor17GT]

All advice is gratefully received and evaluated.

It is all a trade-off and different things appeal to different people.

It rains here too but you can't use the inherent performance of any car down here without getting pulled or snapped immediately.

In your accident, the grip of your tyres wont have saved you and I say this as a still keen motorcyclist hit up the back at the lights by a bus on my test. As a motorcyclist, you learn quickly to stay back and think ahead. Goes for car drivers too.

Yeah one definitely has to chose ones moments for winding up these vehicles.

I was stationary, nothing more I could have or needed to do. YMMV

 

[RDS]

Anyway; I'll run these "hand-cooked" tyres as a test and report back. I'm keen to see how they cope (sensibly) with a particular bend onto a motorway ON ramp in the wet.
I keep an mpg log for each full tank too so any large discrepancies should tell....it's the rims I'm now worried about!

 

[Gregs24]

I went from the OEM PS4S to Continental Sport Contact 7 and the Contis are better. The PS4S at the front were badly cupped after 18k miles even though there was plenty of tread left. Plenty of posts elsewhere on here suggest mine was not an isolated case. Steering feel is definitely improved on the Contis. Now done 5k on them and wear rate seems fine.

 

[RDS]

interesting re cupping. When i checked my Pirelli rears the other day they looked concave across the tread yet they are properly inflated. I will put a straight edge across to check but anyone seen similar?

 

[raptor17GT]

I went from the OEM PS4S to Continental Sport Contact 7 and the Contis are better. The PS4S at the front were badly cupped after 18k miles even though there was plenty of tread left. Plenty of posts elsewhere on here suggest mine was not an isolated case. Steering feel is definitely improved on the Contis. Now done 5k on them and wear rate seems fine.

sorry to derail the OP but have you mixed fronts and rears as my rears are plenty of tread left PS4 but my Kumho fronts are needing replaced so i'm wondering how they'd fair with contis on the front Michelins on the rear

 

[RDS]

the follow up question is interesting anyway because incompatibility front and rear did occur to me too, hence ordering a set of 4 of the same tread pattern and range (though the MPG rating is different front to rear, oddly!)

 

[MarkM]

sorry to derail the OP but have you mixed fronts and rears as my rears are plenty of tread left PS4 but my Kumho fronts are needing replaced so i'm wondering how they'd fair with contis on the front Michelins on the rear

I can’t see that being a problem, both quality tyres.
Anyone buying the Contis won’t be dissapointed

 

[Gregs24]

sorry to derail the OP but have you mixed fronts and rears as my rears are plenty of tread left PS4 but my Kumho fronts are needing replaced so i'm wondering how they'd fair with contis on the front Michelins on the rear

Yes, Contis on the front and PS4S on the rear. No problems at all.

 

[Topdown]

Hello all

anyone willing to share some sensible recommendations re replacement front and rear tyres for a stock 5.0?

currently running Pirelli P zeros and have lasted 12000 careful miles (which I still think is poor if you don't floor it).

I used Blackcirles as a supplier in the past and was quite happy with the service.

cheers

RDS

Michellin PS4S that came with the car 2 years ago still going strong after 33k kms.

 

[Topdown]

at the risk of tiring anyone, please rest assured that I tread as carefully as I can so as not to curb my enthusiasm.

You sound tiresome

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