Tweet
(Polo 6R with Boavistas)
At 49,500km my Continentals just about hit the tread wear indicator. I ran 34psi in them from new and have rotated them twice. The wear was very even across the tread face, a little more on the outside edges which are to be expected. I reckon they're a great tyre, with excellent grip and good wear. I know other people aren't as impressed with them as I am but I've always struggled to get 40,000 from my other cars with goodyear/yokohama/khumos. A guy I work with got over 90K from his set but mostly freeway driving and without any heavy cornering.
I probably left them on the car a little too long. Had a couple of instances where the traction light came on in the wet. But I couldnt bring myself to pay Continental prices and couldn't decide on anything else because its such a subjective area. One thing that has always annoyed me with my car is the speedo error so I have also been considering going to 45 series. That put an extra dimension of doubt.
But I know a guy... and the guy can get me Goodride tyres at cost price. 4 of them fitted and balanced for less than the cost of one Conti so I didn't have much to lose. If they're rubbish, I just flog them off on ebay. I went for SV308 in 215/45/17. Looking at them on the ground unmounted, the outer edges arent as square as a Conti. The sidewalls are actually thicker. Rolling on them for 200kms I've found they are surprisingly very good. The first thing I noticed was the softer ride over bumps. They're equally as quiet as Contis. Grip is a little interesting. Is it just my perception? Pushing hard in sharp corners they are probably about 10% less that the Contis, but in fast corners they only a shade behind. They do make a bit of soft squeal approaching the limit where as the Conti just made scratchy sounds. I haven't had them in the rain yet.
They fix the speedo error, its perfect now when measured against the GPS. However it has stuffed the MFD fuel range. I didn't think of that. Checking against the freeway odometer check signs I am losing 200m per 5km. I dislike that more than the speedo error because I cant just add 7%.
If you are on a budget and are looking for something thats pretty much as good as Continental Premium Contact 2 then you could do a lot worse than Goodride SV308. Get them in the standard size. If they last half as long as the originals then you're a long way in front.
At 49,500km my Continentals just about hit the tread wear indicator. I ran 34psi in them from new and have rotated them twice. The wear was very even across the tread face, a little more on the outside edges which are to be expected. I reckon they're a great tyre, with excellent grip and good wear. I know other people aren't as impressed with them as I am but I've always struggled to get 40,000 from my other cars with goodyear/yokohama/khumos. A guy I work with got over 90K from his set but mostly freeway driving and without any heavy cornering.
I probably left them on the car a little too long. Had a couple of instances where the traction light came on in the wet. But I couldnt bring myself to pay Continental prices and couldn't decide on anything else because its such a subjective area. One thing that has always annoyed me with my car is the speedo error so I have also been considering going to 45 series. That put an extra dimension of doubt.
But I know a guy... and the guy can get me Goodride tyres at cost price. 4 of them fitted and balanced for less than the cost of one Conti so I didn't have much to lose. If they're rubbish, I just flog them off on ebay. I went for SV308 in 215/45/17. Looking at them on the ground unmounted, the outer edges arent as square as a Conti. The sidewalls are actually thicker. Rolling on them for 200kms I've found they are surprisingly very good. The first thing I noticed was the softer ride over bumps. They're equally as quiet as Contis. Grip is a little interesting. Is it just my perception? Pushing hard in sharp corners they are probably about 10% less that the Contis, but in fast corners they only a shade behind. They do make a bit of soft squeal approaching the limit where as the Conti just made scratchy sounds. I haven't had them in the rain yet.
They fix the speedo error, its perfect now when measured against the GPS. However it has stuffed the MFD fuel range. I didn't think of that. Checking against the freeway odometer check signs I am losing 200m per 5km. I dislike that more than the speedo error because I cant just add 7%.
If you are on a budget and are looking for something thats pretty much as good as Continental Premium Contact 2 then you could do a lot worse than Goodride SV308. Get them in the standard size. If they last half as long as the originals then you're a long way in front.
Comment