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Manic172

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What tyres does everyone use? I'm wanting all weather ones, and am wanting to know if anyone has any idea which would be best. If not what are best for the winter and the summer. And I'll buy another set of wheels for each set of tyres. I'm also trying to find some decent seat covers on my audi A4 I got continental contisport 6. And seam OK and brilliant in the wet. And the leon has Dunlop slicks.... no good in the wet
 

jlv81

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I'm leaning on having 2 sets of tyres then. The other half will be happy to have 4 wheels 8n the corner of the bedroom 😂 the seat covers are just to preserve the seats, I'm trying to do as much as I can to protect the originality of the car
 

Alexis27

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What tyres does everyone use? I'm wanting all weather ones, and am wanting to know if anyone has any idea which would be best. If not what are best for the winter and the summer. And I'll buy another set of wheels for each set of tyres. I'm also trying to find some decent seat covers

Personally I don't see the point of anything other than "summer" tyres. Why have inferior grip for the 99.9% of time you're not driving in snow. Decent summer tyres will still give you the best grip when it's 6C and raining.

Michelin Pilot Sport 4 or 5, Goodyear Eagle F1, ContiSportContact 5 are all good.
 
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jlv81

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Personally I don't see the point of anything other than "summer" tyres. Why have inferior grip for the 99.9% of time you're not driving in snow. Decent summer tyres will still give you the best grip when it's 6C and raining.

Michelin Pilot Sport 4 or 5, Goodyear Eagle F1, ContiSportContact 5 are all good.
Well I'm going to need 4 tyres. Just checked mine and they are 11-12 years old. Do it's lucky I asked. As it would have failed it's mot
 
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jlv81

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Are these any good?
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g60stu

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Personally I would just go to black circles and get Michelin pilot sport 4. They’re usually really good fitted price especially if you order 4.
 

jlv81

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Personally I would just go to black circles and get Michelin pilot sport 4. They’re usually really good fitted price especially if you order 4.
Problem i have is that the car is sorn, and has its mot at the end of the.month. and black circles doesn't have a mobile fitter that I can book. So I'm getting these. Ehat do you think?
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Alexis27

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I feel your pain. I still have £400 on the credit card from January. Had 4x Michelin PS5s fitted, but got £70 off and a £50 Amazon voucher.

This was at ATS (owned by Michelin). Normally I hate chains, but amazingly the slow loss of air I used to get on the rear left has been solved. I've been living with it for 5 years and had umpteen places refit various tyres on that corner with no success. ATS seem to use proper white tyre paste which has finally sealed it (took a lot of scrubbing to get it off the alloys).

Michelin Tigre is the stuff going off a Google search.
 
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jlv81

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I feel your pain. I still have £400 on the credit card from January. Had 4x Michelin PS5s fitted, but got £70 off and a £50 Amazon voucher.

This was at ATS (owned by Michelin). Normally I hate chains, but amazingly the slow loss of air I used to get on the rear left has been solved. I've been living with it for 5 years and had umpteen places refit various tyres on that corner with no success. ATS seem to use proper white tyre paste which has finally sealed it (took a lot of scrubbing to get it off the alloys).

Michelin Tigre is the stuff going off
Yeah, halfords had a 20% discount for 4 tyres. So it could have been worse
 

mty12345

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Agree with what everyone else said. I've had PS4's and Goodyear F1 AS6 in recent years, both great in the summer and in the wet. Performance drops off when temps get cold, but still very driveable even then. I keep them on all year round.
 

bruceR

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Just had 2 new front tyres fitted through black circles, Bridgestones to replace the Michelin PS5’s - will see how these fair


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