The tyre Choice

[gldgti]

anyone offer generalised price differences from 195/45 and 205/45 (16")

i've been buying 205's for my car and seem to differ from around $220 each for conti sport, to $130 for nexen n6000 (doing 50,000km/year, you can guess which tyre's i bought)

i never thought to price 195's though... are they cheaper?

[jayjay]

there is always a set of pirelli p6000s on ebay for like 550 or something like that... they're 195/45/16

[rayray086]

anyone offer generalised price differences from 195/45 and 205/45 (16")

i've been buying 205's for my car and seem to differ from around $220 each for conti sport, to $130 for nexen n6000 (doing 50,000km/year, you can guess which tyre's i bought)

i never thought to price 195's though... are they cheaper?

I know it's the same price for 195/45 and 205/40. I bought a pair of each (Nankang NS2) for $130/each about a year ago. Can't help you with the 205/45 though.

And WTF, 50,000km/year? Where do you drive to Aydan?

[OEM G60]

The cheapest i found the Conti Sport Contacts in 195/45/16 was $800 for the lot including fitting/balance and allignment. That was in Brookvale NSW in 2005.

[gldgti]

I know it's the same price for 195/45 and 205/40. I bought a pair of each (Nankang NS2) for $130/each about a year ago. Can't help you with the 205/45 though.

And WTF, 50,000km/year? Where do you drive to Aydan?

ahh so the 195/45 are about hte same price as the 205/45's then.

live in gosford, work in hornsy and missus works in north ryde - so i do gosford, hornsby, north ryde, gosford. i generally do 140km 5 days a week, or quite often 140km 4 days and about 300km one day a week... it all adds up. from october 07 to october 08 i put 50,500km on the car. in the year i spent about $5.5K on fuel.

last set of tyres were the dreaded Neuton NT5000's (indonesia) which i got 36,000km from, with some tread left over (i bought a new set because i wanted to get a wheel alignment).

in the past year i've drained 24L of oil out of the car in oil changes (always penrite HPR Diesel semi-synthetic)....

so yeah, thats why i'm a diesel nutter

[WABIT]

195/45's all round mate, cant go wrong because when you need to replace them they are easy to come by
i waited 4 months foor my 165/50r15's yeah they arecool..... but im gonna be stuffed when i need to replace them!

was looking for 195/40's australia wide and didnt have any luck
if an australian deliverd car had them on as factory, we have the tyre here, if not... they will not be avalable

dom

[DubSteve]

195/45's all round mate, cant go wrong because when you need to replace them they are easy to come by
i waited 4 months foor my 165/50r15's yeah they arecool..... but im gonna be stuffed when i need to replace them!

was looking for 195/40's australia wide and didnt have any luck
if an australian deliverd car had them on as factory, we have the tyre here, if not... they will not be avalable

dom

Cheers bro,

I am definately going to go for them just need to think about which ones to go for thats the next question

[rayray086]

Toyo T1R

[DubSteve]

LOL Ray, what are you running?

[rayray086]

Cheap Kumho KU25. Looks crap stretched over... the Falkens look good though.

[RhysQ]

Toyo T1R

I repaced my T1-R's for the Marangoni's I have on now. I told the guys at the tyre shop to burn the T1-R's because they were so sh*t. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.

No traction when launching in the dry (wheelspin the whole way through 1st, 2nd and part of 3rd) and in the wet I pretty much didn't take the car out because it was too dangerous. I couldn't even turn slowly in the wet without the front end sliding around everywhere. Going around roundabouts, all fours would let go....

[DubSteve]

Cheap Kumho KU25. Looks crap stretched over... the Falkens look good though.

Ah yes the Falkens, Ray is Alex running the same tyres the Falkens on his mk1? And what were they exactly?

[WABIT]

i have the T1R's on my 16'sand they are insane

won best tyre in its racing category last year, best tyre before a semi slick

dom

[rayray086]

Wow, I've only heard good things about the T1R? Lots of dubbers choose the T1R for the way the sidewalls stretch though... I suppose they were evaluating the tyre based on the looks!

Alex has Nankang NSIIs over his BBS wheels. Very cheap performance tyre. I had them before on the BBS I sold to you. A little noisier than I liked.

[BL33SU]

u's all need archilles 225/15/20