Tyre Tests-How Accurate-Motor June 16

[JC]

Originally Posted by asagaai

Tests as follows:

• Dry Slalom-seconds

Dunlop Continental Michelin F1 Hankook Pirelli Toyo Nitto Nexen
9.70 10.10 9.90 10.10 10.00 10.03 10.13 10.30 10.53

• Dry Braking-metres

Dunlop Continental Michelin F1 Hankook Pirelli Toyo Nitto Nexen
34.75 36.66 37.10 37.67 38.19 37.50 39.39 41.75 40.81

• Motorkhana-seconds

Dunlop Continental Michelin F1 Hankook Pirelli Toyo Nitto Nexen
79.14 80.73 80.27 81.55 80.98 80.26 82.33 82.57 84.18

• Lateral G Force

Dunlop Continental Michelin F1 Hankook Pirelli Toyo Nitto Nexen
1.07 1.04 1.02 1.01 1.03 1.02 0.99 0.98 0.97

• Wet braking- metres

Dunlop Continental Michelin F1 Hankook Pirelli Toyo Nitto Nexen
13.96 14.00 15.37 15.57 14.97 15.04 15.73 16.54 15.88

• TreadWear

Dunlop Continental Michelin F1 Hankook Pirelli Toyo Nitto Nexen
240 240 300 300 280 320 240 220 300

Interesting that the difference between 1st to last is around 10% for most of those tests. The one they didn't do was 0-100 dry, and 0-100 wet. Given the small performance difference for a huge difference in price, I reckon you'd have to be happy, on the street, with any of those tyres, even the cheaper ones.

[GT450]

The Michelins MPSS that we get , in the normal falcon 19" size are made in France Trev. Otherwise i believe they are made in the USA in other sizes. I don't believe they make them to suit different markets and they are cheaper now because the sizes are more common and the brand more popular. I think they are brilliant on the GT, much much grippier than the Dunlops and much quieter and they give you the assurance to drive harder especially in the wet.
I put a set of PS3s on my Mazda after getting 100kms out of the original Toyos, these are Malaysian manufactured and again have the same attributes although the mpg has definitely dropped with these tyres I would buy them again, no question. Maybe your originals were slightly different but i do believe Michelin only make one MPSS tyre and they are brilliant.
Reminds me of an XA Gt I had in the 70s it had Bridgestone RD102 textile radials , absolutely brilliant but i couldn't buy them as they were superceded and nothing ever felt quite the same on that car.
GT450

[98TLS]

Originally Posted by JC

Interesting that the difference between 1st to last is around 10% for most of those tests. The one they didn't do was 0-100 dry, and 0-100 wet. Given the small performance difference for a huge difference in price, I reckon you'd have to be happy, on the street, with any of those tyres, even the cheaper ones.

Thats what i was thinking,Toyo Proxes T1 Sport on my GTP and all good so far though there down the bottom re the tests.More than adequate for purely street driven car.

[Full_Monty]

Nothing wrong with the Toyo T1's I had them on my xr6T, and they performed better than the previous 2 sets of Yokohama V103's. Was pleasantly surprised

Now on new MPSS on the GT, very happy - astounding grip, only downside is they're a little noisy on coarse chip.

[Sioso]

Originally Posted by Sioso

I actually bought that mag right as I was up for new tyres.
Remember that the size and vehicle type would also change some results, i.e, traction would be less noticeable in an AWD.
I was surprised at the Dunlop RT result also.
I had planned on getting MPSS but as the Dunlop RT's were cheaper than the MPSS from my local tyre shop I thought I would give them a go.
The size they tested was the same size as I needed and it was even a similar vehicle, RS3 - Golf R.
I've done around 400k's (dry) on them so far and am very impressed - it gets driven swiftly on tight steep roads for my daily commute.
I still need to try them in the wet.
Treadwear of 240 for the RT's is softer than MPSS (300) but still better than the factory Bridgestone RE050 - 140 treadwear - they had canvas coming through at 19,000k's - but that did include a trackday.

Update on the Dunlop RT's:
I've covered 4,000k's on these tyres now and they are a great tyre wet or dry but do not like the cold weather.
The weather is one variable that doesn't come into the tyre test and something I hadn't thought of.
It's been dropping below zero some mornings and these new RT's lack the grip of the factory RE050's or the Kumho PS91's I had on my XR6T ute.
If you live somewhere that regularly falls below 5 degrees I would look elsewhere, I won't be buying them again (unless I move to somewhere warmer).

[richzx]

Hey Sioso what did you think of the Kumho PS91?

[Sioso]

Originally Posted by richzx

Hey Sioso what did you think of the Kumho PS91?

I really liked them, I had 245's & 285's on a turbo ute they had heaps of grip.
I sold the ute shortly after fitting them so can't comment on how long they would last.