RE: Tyres

colin76

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Hi there,

The wife is running a Cupra- in need of a new set of tyres on the front soon!!!! currently running on Pirelli's, just want to know if anyone has fitted anything different and been happy with the results.

Cheers
 

colin76

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RE:Tyres

Cheers- will get in the interweb and check them out
 
Jan 11, 2005
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Uniroyal Rainsport, as the name suggests are good in the wet and better than Pirelli P-Zero in wet and dry. If you can find them, they are cheaper than Pirelli's as well
 

krussel

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Oct 31, 2008
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Hertforshire
I am up for a pair of front tyres (205/17) when i get paid, how did you get on with the Uniroyal Rainsport's, any good?

What price can i expect to pay fitted. :confused:


Cheers
 
Mar 13, 2010
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Parada's are soft compound, will chew through them if you psuhing big power, I like the Flaken 452's or the Uniroyals, best tyres ive ever had are the conti contact sport's
 

FR_MATT

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Jun 2, 2010
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All the tyres needed replacing when I got the car in June last year, the Hankook Pro Evo v12 I had put on were a lot better than the Pirellis on it to begin with but then they were knackered and only drove to the tyre place with them on.

They seem to have lost a lot of grip lately, even in the dry coming out of roundabouts its faster to make progress in 3rd than spinning up the wheels in 2nd, which never use to be the case.

I've got around 3mm left on the front and 4ish on the back after 16k miles and switching them around to wear more equally, so I don't think I've done too bad.

I'm only running standard power (it did roll 145 hp @ wheels 305 ft/lb at Awesome gti though!) I just fancied something a bit stickeyer for spring/summer :)
 

great_kahn

Spooge
Nov 19, 2009
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Leicestershire
Uniroyal rainsport 2's on the front of my cupra, got 2 rainsport 2's going on the back tomorrow from black circles. :happy:

More expensive than Toyo proxes T1r's, but there a much tougher compound, seem to be lasting alot longer.
 
Mar 20, 2009
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Largs Scotland
Ive had the Toyo Proxies and highly rate them in the wet and dry but they dont last very long but im moving to the parada spec 2's once i get my new wheels
 
Jan 11, 2005
680
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Barnsley
I am up for a pair of front tyres (205/17) when i get paid, how did you get on with the Uniroyal Rainsport's, any good?

What price can i expect to pay fitted. :confused:


Cheers

I paid £79ea fitted but they are 215/40 so expect to pay £70-75
They are quite noisy to be fair but I'd prefer better performance over low noise
 
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