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Re: Best tyre advice? With emphasis on wet grip pleeeease...........
« Reply #15 on: 25 August 2015, 17:50:04 »

In my experience the best wet grip tyres are Uniroyal Rainsport 3's, Rainsport 2's were better but no longer produced.

 
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Re: Best tyre advice? With emphasis on wet grip pleeeease...........
« Reply #16 on: 25 August 2015, 17:54:33 »

I,ve got Nexen N8000,s all round on my 2.2, so far no dramas and were a reasonable price. :y
I should add that mine is bog standard with 16" wheels. :y
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Re: Best tyre advice? With emphasis on wet grip pleeeease...........
« Reply #17 on: 25 August 2015, 18:06:10 »

Had some B F Goodrich fitted on both 3.2's today at my boy's place, seemed reasonable pricewise @ £70 a corner,always thought they were from the good old U.S,but now owned by Michelin, so watch this space for a bit of feed back :-\
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Re: Best tyre advice? With emphasis on wet grip pleeeease...........
« Reply #18 on: 25 August 2015, 18:19:20 »

Had some B F Goodrich fitted on both 3.2's today at my boy's place, seemed reasonable pricewise @ £70 a corner,always thought they were from the good old U.S,but now owned by Michelin, so watch this space for a bit of feed back :-\c

Used to run them on my old 406 and they were pretty good
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Re: Best tyre advice? With emphasis on wet grip pleeeease...........
« Reply #19 on: 25 August 2015, 19:00:03 »

In my experience the best wet grip tyres are Uniroyal Rainsport 3's, Rainsport 2's were better but no longer produced.
I find that too often, a good tyre is replaced by a supposedly better, but ultimately inferior, tyre.

Continental did it with the SC2, which they replaced with the less grippy SC3, which is in the process of being phased out for the utter shite SC5.

I still maintain the best all road tyre for the Omega was the Sport Maxx TT, now defunct. The RT probably has a bit more grip, but at the expense of straight line stability.
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« Reply #20 on: 25 August 2015, 19:42:37 »

I put Uniroyal Rainsports on the front of my Vectra. Really impressed with wet grip, not on long enough to comment on longevity though...
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