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mixing tyres
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:17 pm
by RDH
Is it OK to have AD07's at the front and RE040's at the rear?
Just bought a flat and don't have the cash to splash out on 4 new tyres?
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:57 pm
by Blaque
I have a decent set of bridgestone fronts laying around if it helps?
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:03 pm
by meatball
RDH wrote:Is it OK to have AD07's at the front and RE040's at the rear?
Just bought a flat and don't have the cash to splash out on 4 new tyres?
When they are bedded in your car should have more grip at the front than the rear (when dry and the opposite when wet)......unless I'm wrong????
=oversteer in the dry and understeer in the wet?????
Similar to my 48's on the front and R888's on the rear.
/idiot's opinion!
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:08 pm
by tut
Rob
If the car feels OK, then the combination should be OK. Main thing is to have the same tyres on the same axle.
I have used 48R's on the front and Stunner Scudos on the rear, about as extreme a combination as you can get, and they were fine on the road, but would not repeat on the track again.
I have around 20 used tyres in the bike shed, and I can not justify using 48R's all the time, so I use them up, but always in matched pairs.
tut
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:54 am
by mac
RDH wrote:Is it OK to have AD07's at the front and RE040's at the rear?
Just bought a flat and don't have the cash to splash out on 4 new tyres?
With your driving talent you'll hardly notice a difference.
Personally I think it will make the car tend to oversteer more (or should that be understeer less given it's an S2?)
Just don't push it and you should be fine <insert fingers crossed smilie here>
Mac
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:49 pm
by GregR
Simply buy 2 AD07s for the rear? The fronts will prolly have lots of life left in them I presume?
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:53 pm
by RDH
GregR wrote:Simply buy 2 AD07s for the rear? The fronts will prolly have lots of life left in them I presume?
Opposite - I'm on the second set of rears for this set of fronts!
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:58 pm
by GregR
So what tyres are you running front-back at the moment, and what's the tread? Is your proposal to mix based on buying any tyres?
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:17 am
by JimH
Top tyre mixing advice. I know that it is for an ADO16 but that's pretty much the same as an Elise isn't it?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c23MFIKiVdE
Good drift technique too.
Re: mixing tyres
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:40 am
by Andy G
you'll be fine.
appraoching the limit, you'd expect the front to hang on better than the rear, but thats once your are starting to push things. On the road i doubt you'd notice much of a difference