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Aug 5th, 2020, 09:58 | #1 |
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What tyres does everyone run?
Hi Folks,
New to owning a Volvo, bought the car with Michelin Cross Climates on which look to be in good nick - great I thought, they are smooth and quiet and certainly hold the road well in the dry. In the wet though, not nearly so grippy in the corners and I'm no Shumacher but like to push on sometimes as well. My old car had Mich Primacy 4s on the front and it would really need to be provoked into losing grip, its a smaller lighter less poweful car but the Volvo feels a little bit like having to tiptoe around in the wet. The inlaws V70 had a nightmare of mismatched ditch finders, I got a deal on Toyo Proxes CF2 which transformed it. I'll keep the Cross Climates til they are done (hopefully good for the snow) but I must say I am disappointed in the wet performance. What does everyone else run? Thanks! |
Aug 5th, 2020, 11:30 | #2 |
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Uniroyal RainSport. Good on a dry road, and absolutely excellent on a wet one.
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Aug 5th, 2020, 11:56 | #3 |
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I'm on uniroyal rainsports as well
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Aug 5th, 2020, 14:02 | #5 |
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My local tyreman thinks cross-climates are overrated, expensive and very car sensitive, on some they are brilliant, on others not so good.
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Aug 5th, 2020, 14:58 | #6 |
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I'm interested in this as well, I always used Goodyear Eagle F1's on the C70 the grip was amazing but the tyre life not so amazing...
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With tyres, you get what you pay for - my grandfather insisted that as you only have a piece of tyre the size of a plimsole at each corner of a motor it makes sense to get ones with the best tread pattern. Both the C70 and V70 will have cross climates fitted later in the year.
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Nokian weatherproof on an XC70 D5 185bhp - but I live on an unadopted, cobbled muddy track where, when we get a 'good' winter, we are often above the snow line - much better all round than the pirelli scorpions that it came fitted with.
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So much depends upon where you are driving, the experience you have in snow and ice as well as understanding the limits of the vehicle you are driving
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My recently new-to-me S60 came with Nexen Nfera SU1 all round which I'd actually never heard of before; they seem to grip alright in the dry but have worn down quickly (based on when PO bought them). The fact I can find very little about them, or even Nexen generally, online, told me straight away I won't be having them again although they do seem quiet and it rides well.
I had new rears last week and went for Michelin Pilot Spot 4. Swapped the Nexens from the rear onto the front; eventually she'll be Michelin all-round but there's a lot of life left on the Nexens so I'm going to keep running them for now. The old fronts were almost illegal.
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