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Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:44 pm**

What is everyone's favourite tire set ups people have?

I have:

Front: Falken ZE 326
Rear: Eagle F1 205/45ZR16

Those F1's are one of the best tires ever so grippy! And I put them trough hell :twisted:

But the Falken's aren't too crash hot and that's a massive understatement! (suggestions on replacements

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Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:48 pm**

My all time favourite was the Falken RT215. But its not in production any longer.

I'm eyeing off the Khumo KU36 ?

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:06 pm**

Bang for buck- Re001

But it would be either R1R or ku36 for me.

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:19 pm**

Toyo R888s for me....

Though I wouldnt use them on the road...

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:40 pm**

philz wrote:Bang for buck- Re001.

Plenty of bucks here in the wet. All for your insurance excess.

The RE001 would have to be the most dangerous tYre I have dríven on in the wet. I think slicks on a oil soaked road would have more grip. :evil:

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:52 pm**

Tires

Cant git ova da tirrible spalling on dis sight :lol:

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:58 pm**

well we seemed to have accepted the way we write our date in the American way. Why should we stop there. We may as well convert to American spelling....we drive a car which was designed for the North american Market. And we keep going on about Hp...oops thats pommy isnt it? :oops:

The outer ring served to "attire" the wheel for use, providing a wear-resistant surface to the perimeter of the wheel
The word "tire" thus emerged as a variant spelling to refer to the metal bands used to dress wheels.

Tire is an older spelling than tyre, but both were used in the 15th and 16th centuries for a metal tire; tire became the settled spelling in the 17th century. In the UK, tyre was revived in the 19th century for pneumatic tires, possibly because it was used in some patent documents, though many continued to use tire for the iron variety. The Times newspaper was still using tire as late as 1905.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tire

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:21 pm**

StanTheMan wrote:well we seemed to have accepted the way we write our date in the American way. Why should we stop there. .

The yanks use mm/dd/yy for their date format. We use dd/mm/yy

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:54 pm**

rjastra2 wrote:
StanTheMan wrote:well we seemed to have accepted the way we write our date in the American way. Why should we stop there. .

The yanks use mm/dd/yy for their date format. We use dd/mm/yy

Correct. Its a pet hate of mine when Aussie sited use the North American format

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:02 pm**

StanTheMan wrote:
Correct. Its a pet hate of mine when Aussie sited use the North American format

That's because the site admin is too lazy to change the format

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:13 pm**

RE001, made in Japan

. Front and back, standard size for 15" rims.
With the 50/50 setup on the MX5 why would you have different tyres front and back?
Ted

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:29 pm**

Haha coz I'm too poor.

looking forward to tax back.
it thinks its time for a military coup rjastra2? I'll make a distraction while you slip in the back? first we change the date format then the world! :twisted:

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:59 pm**

Charlie Brown wrote:
philz wrote:Bang for buck- Re001.

Plenty of bucks here in the wet. All for your insurance excess.

The RE001 would have to be the most dangerous tYre I have dríven on in the wet. I think slicks on a oil soaked road would have more grip.

I simply cannot understand this at all, Phil. I've got RE001s on 2 very different cars, although both using 195/50x15s, and they stick beautifully in the wet. I'm wondering if there was something very wrong with whatever you had them on.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:11 pm**

My apologie's to rjastra just realised. I've deleted the post.

I was trying to quote something he said......but must have pressed something different

STM

rjastra2's post I accidently deleted was something like this