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Originally Posted by Nick Goodall
Unless you're going to start taking your car on track, i doubt anyone or certainly many people NEED to run Michelin's, Goodyear or Pirelli tyres really..... A lot of it is in the mind - If you're driving that fast around on the roads that you're struggling for grop with Kumho's, Hankook etc i'd say you're more likely to crash anyway  |
I don't think it's all in the mind when it comes to having "named" tyres, Autocar did a test a year or so back on the cheapy Chinese tyres like Nankangs, Heros, Ditchfinder 01s etc.
They took a normal Conti tyre as well, nothing special, found that in wet breaking from 60 or 70mph, at the point that the Contis had stopped, some of the cheapo tyres were still doing near on 30mph
Personally, the thought that someone behind me might have crap tyres on, and won't/can't stop as fast as my car, scares me more then a little.