mixing tyres

RDH · Post by **RDH** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:17 pm

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?

Blaque · Post by **Blaque** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:57 pm

I have a decent set of bridgestone fronts laying around if it helps?

meatball · Post by **meatball** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:03 pm

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!

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:08 pm

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

mac · Post by **mac** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:54 am

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

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:49 pm

Simply buy 2 AD07s for the rear? The fronts will prolly have lots of life left in them I presume?

RDH · Post by **RDH** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:53 pm

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!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:58 pm

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?

JimH · Post by **JimH** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:17 am

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.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:40 am

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

Scottish Elises

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