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Once home I took a look at the rear rubber. Tread depth fine but some brand I have never heard of - TIGAR. No feed back what-so-ever from the tyres until they totally lose grip in the damp conditions we had today.
jsheathcote wrote:I have just picked up my Mk1b and twice on the way home almost span it.
My guess is that these are some cheap budget rubber.
What do you suggest as replacements, and what sort of price am I looking at?
(Taiwanese Ditch Finders) and are absolutely useless. Really good especially in wet. Don't take them on track though.& road use- A539. mediocre grip but nice and progressive, my choice in my NA.(195/50/15s):- good for road and track(LTS- for elise S1) thes eworked fantastically well on my old SC.£34 per tyre on mytyres.com- Circuit Pack 
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The compound is not as soft as F1's or T1-S's, but still softer than some. So far both dry, damp and wet handling is pretty fri88ing good. But for some reason keep having this re-ocuring nightmare about rubber peeling away... (no joke) 
| 99 528i SE Touring | 01 Mandarin VX220 System-G wrote:I recently got some new tyres fitted to my 1a as I was told A539 are becoming difficult to get hold of due to discontinuation of them.
I also then found out that Toyo don't make T1's in stock sizes
I wasn't about to fork out for Goodyear F1's as my stock wheels will be used for track use as of next year and my day to day wheels will be something in 15"
So I went with the fitters recomendation of BF Goodrich directional tyres.
Goodrich Profiler G are not too bad a tyre.- Circuit Pack Cheap at £32 each. fitted/balanced. The fronts are made by Stunner and were on the car when I bought it. 
so the best option I had was Pirelli P6000. Either way there will be far better than the crud I had on before so I'll let you know how there fair. All looks very clean with the only exception being the edges of the sill lip near the rear wheels - the edges are starting to rust but nothing to worry about in the near future. I feel a new thread coming on 
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tonigmr2 wrote:Fear me, for I am watching
Which is great since it got me out of a nasty moment when I went too fast around a corner? 
Had a very lairy moment where I spun the car 180deg and hopped over a kerb onto a grass verge sideways - the front tyre sidewall took pretty much all of the impact with the kerb since you could actually see the metal reinforcing strips bulging out of the side afterwards 
Admittedly the spin was my own fault but the grip was always pretty bad in the wet with the Pirellis so I changed them for Goodyears. I had trouble finding somewhere that did Eagle F1s but ended up with so Goodyear NCT5 tyres instead and they seemed to be much better to me... Fitted with stainless steel racing valves and even come complete with a set of Speedline wheel nuts. They are all new, only ever fitted one to see what my (now abandoned) Mk1 project car would look like with them. These cost me £750, but I am willing to let them go for £400 as they are no good to me anymore and must go!Subaru Man wrote:Why buy new tyres, when for a few more pounds you can have this lot:
. imho tonigmr2 wrote:Fear me, for I am watching
Speedy wrote:Subaru Man wrote:Why buy new tyres, when for a few more pounds you can have this lot:
Possibly because an otherwise standard mk1 would be really overtyred with those tyres on.
£200 for 4 F1's fitted. ..| 99 528i SE Touring | 01 Mandarin VX220& they are superb, but they are getting difficult to find in standard 14" size so i done a search & came up with these if it helps anyone :-(available from mytyres) is the Toyo CF-1, they're cheap and pretty soft compound. If it's anything like the T1-S they'll be alright, haven't tried them myself, you'd have to ask Malcom (Tiamat) as he's got them on his 2.
