Tyres

[mk4vtec-newbie]

IMO don't cut corners on tyres or brakes.

but someone who should be listened too IMO suggested the Contis, maybe even the ones you have I think?

So decisions decisions...

Personally I have always liked Contis on other cars. Interestingly, I took her to a Honda dealer today as I needed help with a part. Spoke to the guy there who said they recommend Contis and that is what they would put on if tyres were purchased through them. I guess that is why the lude has them on the rears already as the woman who owned her from 2001 to 2012 kept a FHSH and every receipt.....I don't know her but I love her.

[hondaman]

Tyres are such a personal thing and what suite one car may not suit another, but having said that, i've had good wet grip results from Hankook Ventus Prime 2 K115 on my other car and Falken FK452's on previous cars although the Falkens may not still be available i think they superseeded them with something else.

I always go to Camskill for tyres as they seem to be the cheapest of the online tyre suppliers

On the lude i have a mixture of NCT5 on the front and Toyo/ Firestone on the rear, on my summer wheel set, but they aren't fitted currently because of a flat spot on one front wheel which i need to get sorted, so currently have winter tyres fitted which don't grip very well in rainy conditions

[jjmartin349571]

I bought my Rainsports for about £45 a corner on Camskill, I was really impressed by the prices. Got them fitted at Kwik-Fit on Saturday as my mate who would normally would do it was busy. The tech there mentioned that the nearside rear was almost at the wear indicator and wouldn't last much longer, so I begrudgingly paid £47 for some no-name budget bum droppings to go on the back as my spare has rubber on it from 1997 the rear tyre isn't ideal as a result and I'm drokked off that I had to pay £2 more for a budget tyre than I did for a Uniroyal online, but it will last I guess and to be fair the A6 sits on the motorway all day, it doesn't get thrown about and it has decent tyres up front at least.

Speaking of which - @Gayno, I got a chance to throw the A6 around and test out the Uniroyals I'm very impressed on the whole but I get what you were saying, there's like a split second when you turn the wheel when you feel like you're getting nothing and then the car turns. Very weird, but it could just be something that has always happened and I'm now getting a backwards placebo effect because of ideas you sowed in my mind Who knows. I did get a bit overconfident at one point when testing the new tyres out, and almost put the A6 in to a field