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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Heckling from the cheap seats, Phnom Penh, KoW
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I can't recall the tyre make, now. But I drove a car some years back on relatively fresh Chinese budget tyres. It was remarkably bad, and goes some way to explain how people get themselves into bother. My brother is one of those people who believes he's gods gift to driving, and he hasn't a clue when he's approaching the limit of adhesion. Mostly, though, he's saved by road congestion and good rubber. The tyres on the above mentioned vehicle (which was a quattro model) started to feel vague at some fairly low speeds, and in the wet were just lethal. How they managed to get approved for sale is beyond me.
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Staffordshire
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making wooden things
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: cow land
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![]() Michelin tb15 are legal i think, tarmac rally tyres but do look very odd..
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4 ring whore!
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Scottish Borders.
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You refer to training and cutting open tyres. Any in-depth knowlege you have would be welcome here. |
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Grown up member
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Staffordshire
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Hi Phillip, I totally agree tyre choice is a deeply personal thing and incredibly subjective. Made increasingly hard by the tyre labelling. The test criteria for the labelling varies massively. A good example of this is as follows. The wet breaking test for Summer tyres. This can be conducted by a manufacturer in a temperature range from 40 - 15 degrees centigrade. Some manufacturers will opt to test in Hot conditions others will test in more temperate conditions, this will then make it impossible for a consumer to determine how good or bad different tyre really is as you don't know what temperatures the tyres where tested in originally to draw a scientific comparison. On the whole the premium manufacturers tend to test around the average European summer temperature of 20 degrees. In short it's a mine field. The only further advice I would give is buy the best brand that you can afford, the contact patch of a tyre is about the size of your hand and your going to transmit all your acceleration, braking & steering inputs in to 4 relatively small patches. So where possible try and avoid ditch finders and part worn tyres are the worst. And that's me back off the soapbox. It's been great to converse with such a great bunch of Audi owners. Have a fab weekend everyone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Near Watford.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Wirral
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Sissix-by-the-sea
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In my humble opion, I would far sooner have modern tyre technology than originality. The static contact area of a Ur tyre is probably about 2" by 7" per rim, which sounds impressive until it's attached to ancient/old and thermally tempered tyres with less than ideal water dispersion design.
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