What Tyres Are You Running On Your T5?

[DuncVolvoTurbo]

It looks like I might be needing a couple of tyres for my Turbo, and as this would be the first time I have bought tyres for it, it would be good to see what you other T5ers are running, and your opinions on them.

Currently it has Pirelli P6000, and that could be an option (although there seems to be different types), but I've heard some good things from Toyo Proxes (but again there are different types).

I am not going to be doing any track days, it will just be a daily car, with some nice weekend blasts in the country. Good in the rain would be good as well, as I live up here in "Sunny" Scotland, lol!

What would you recommend???

[Pandamedic]

Everyone is going to say Eagle F1s!

However, having used these at work i wasn't too impressed with them to be able to cope with all the weather conditons with how we drive. Dont get me wrong they are still good tyres for joe public.

We've since started to use the goodyear optigrips (225/45/17s) which we've found are far better then the eagle f1s and seem to hold the road alot better at speed in all weather conditions.

However, on my car i've stuck the goodyear nct5s on them as overall they handle well, did really well in the snow we had and i'm hoping i'll get better milage out of these. But as they are the 1st time i've had these tyres i'll have to get back to you about that part

[PaulZX]

I've still got the budgets on the new rims I bought a couple of months back.

Durun I think they're called. Pretty good grip in the dry, ditchfinders in the wet.

NOT recommended lol

Vredstein ultrac next, I think....

[siamblue]

Uniroyal rainsport or something like that, going to try proxes 4 next,

Gary

[PaulZX]

Uniroyal rainsport or something like that, going to try proxes 4 next,

Gary

I had toyo proxes t1-s's on the standard wheels, and I thought they were pretty good, wet and dry, but they wore down in about 4,000 miles....

[Pliskin]

Ultracs all round on my 854 which are pretty damn good and Uniroyal Rainsport2 on my S70, which according to a lot of the independant reports is one of the best tyres available for £85ish.

Mytyres.co.uk are a good place to try.

[callyuk]

Budgets all the way woo!!!

[LeeT5]

Although my car is AWD i would seriously recommend Vredestein Ultracs. They wear even and last along time and best of all they look sexy as hell!
I have tried toyo proxes ts-1 on my old T-5 but tbh, they were ****. F1's are very good but a little over rated. Proxes are soft compound which is why they didn't last long.

Best advice i can give anyone is rotate and re balance your tyres every 6 months to get the most out of them....chances are the garage will find a stray nail or two like they did in mine!!! If i never got them rebalanced they would never have found and safely removed the nails, which were well embedded into the tyre, but hadn't punctured through.

Best thing is they only cost about £85 each fitted!

Size on mine is 215/40ZR17.

Good luck!

[DuncVolvoTurbo]

Although my car is AWD i would seriously recommend Vredestein Ultracs. They wear even and last along time and best of all they look sexy as hell!

Best thing is they only cost about £85 each fitted!

Size on mine is 215/40ZR17.

Good luck!

Where did you get that price?

[si2500]

Toyo Proxes all round...........fantastic and wearing well..........done 2k and hardly worn :-))

[Volvostorm]

I have Sportiva's on mine, they are made by Continental, seem to grip well, can't comment about the wear, as they are new!

They are also covered by a lifetime guarantee, if they get an un-repairable puncture, I only have to pay for the amount of tyre I have used, and I get a new tyre.

In 215/45WR17 I paid £67 each

[marky 76]

as per above you will get so many different answers , i personally run yokohama parada spec 2,s , but have my own reasons for that , as for people buying budget tyres just dont go there, the one most important thing between you and the road is your tyres why people buy budgets is just beyond me i have allways been led to believe that tyres are so important just my two pence worth

[Tomcat]

Whatever I can afford at the moment, I have Federal's on the front and Kumo's on the back at present. If I'm shopping for budget tyres I still go for names I've heard of.

[marky 76]

point taken but i was refering to budgets and i mean proper budgets like wan li and ling long you know the 40 pound a corner plastic

[Pandamedic]

Hankooks are pretty good. Still got the k105xl on the back of mine, although their prices have gone up to branded tyre prices last time i looked

[Tomcat]

point taken but i was refering to budgets and i mean proper budgets like wan li and ling long you know the 40 pound a corner plastic

Yeah I quite agree, I certainly wouldn't buy a Yin Yang etc....., I would prefer something decent, but with little or no spare money coming in I think any tyre is better than an illegal one.

[roryscott30]

Avon rainsports, excellent.

[iGGy]

My Proxes T1-R's seem to be holding up quite well.

[My T5]

I had Dunlop sp sports on my columbas and rated them highly.If you wernt in scotland id offer them to you! On my tethys alloys ive got some cheap ditch loving,aqua planing,torque steering c**p. As soon as funds are available im getting a pair of decent tyres for the front like Yokos,sp sports,falkens or F1's.

[gazjacko]

a lot of these are on 17s where as you, presumably are on 16s, so some of the feel will be different as your sidewall is proportionally bigger than those of us on 17s and 18s.
my only advice would be that if you're one for spinning the fronts up then you're going to get through them whatever you pick so in the budget v expensive debate I'd suggest mid range may be the way forward in that you get most of the performance with less overall expense.
I'd have a look at Avons, Kumhos etc and if you find one without a directional tread pattern all the better as you can spread n/side and o/side wear too.