Calling Jaguar Steve - 99 XJ8 tyre advice needed

Calling Jaguar Steve - 99 XJ8 tyre advice needed

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PlayersNo6

Original Poster:

1,102 posts

155 months

Thursday 10th September 2015
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And anyone else who can advise obviously! Car is running P6000s all round and despite having 5mm the fronts have worn on the inner edge. The alignment is OK so I'm guessing it needs a third set of lower arms. With P6000s NLA I'm considering the following in 225/60/16/98W :

Kumho Ecsta HM KH31 - £65
Bridgestone Turanza ER300 - £80
Michelin Primacy 3 - £95

The successor to the P6000 is the P7 Cinturato at £110 but I'm not a fan of Pirellis. Any views on what tyre is a good match for the soft ride of the XJ6 or 8? The car is a barge doing 2k a year so I don't need performance tyres.

Second question is whether having a mismatch front to rear will have an adverse effect. The rears have still got 5mm but they are 7 years old.

Opinions appreciated.

Zippyworld

795 posts

183 months

Saturday 12th September 2015
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I opted for Vredesteins on the front of my x308 XJR, they were a reasonable price and I cannot fault them, with regards wear only time will tell, I will eventually post back.

a8hex

5,829 posts

222 months

Sunday 13th September 2015
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PlayersNo6 said:
The successor to the P6000 is the P7 Cinturato at £110 but I'm not a fan of Pirellis. Any views on what tyre is a good match for the soft ride of the XJ6 or 8? The car is a barge doing 2k a year so I don't need performance tyres.
I'd always been quite happy with the P6000s on my XJ6, I suspect that the originals from the factory were on the car when I bought her back in 96 but with them becoming unavailable I had a pair of the P7s fitted on the front and I'm not impressed. They noisier and don't ride as well as the originals.

8Ace

2,681 posts

197 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Avon ZV5 on my x300. Grippy and quiet. About £100 fitted.


dbdb

4,311 posts

172 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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I asked a similar question on the tyre reviews website a while back and this was the response. Unfortunately, the guy who sold me the new wheels messed me about and I have only just received them - so I haven't refurbished them and fitted new tyres and cannot give you my own experiences!

http://talk.tyrereviews.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&am...

Speedracer329

1,507 posts

176 months

Saturday 19th September 2015
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Zippyworld said:
I opted for Vredesteins on the front of my x308 XJR, they were a reasonable price and I cannot fault them, with regards wear only time will tell, I will eventually post back.
I echo this, had Vreds on my '98 XJR too, to replace P6000's, & were better in every regard. Quiet enough, very grippy yet comfortable too. They work very well on big heavy cars, I am going to get them for my XJ-S too when needed.

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Not been on PH for a while so only just seen your post and as you specifically asked for me it'd be rude to ignore it.

'Fraid I've decided that an active involvement is not for me anymore and that means of course the technical support and contributions for the X300 and X308 to the Jaguar forum I used to post has gone south too.

Love your user name BTW. 20 Number 6 and a box of matches cost a whole weeks pocket money in the early 70's. Don't ask me how I know this I just do... smokin

JS

Zippyworld

795 posts

183 months

Friday 25th September 2015
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If JS is saying farewell, then I just want to thank him for the invaluable contributions that he has made over the years.
Your advice and opinion has been first class, cheers mate !

PlayersNo6

Original Poster:

1,102 posts

155 months

Friday 23rd October 2015
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Firstly a thousand apologies for not replying to my own thread. Thank you for all the replies.

I've ordered the Kumho Ecsta KH31 HM, they seem to get good user reviews online, German test results etc - paid £70 each delivered from tyreleader. Camskill had a great price on Avon ZV5 at about £73 each delivered but it increased to about £89 overnight the day I went to order - now not listed at all. Seems many manufacturers are discontinuing this size completely.

Will report back on the Kumhos once fitted and done a few miles.

Sorry you're no longer contributing Steve. I found your threads and answers incredibly useful when buying my XJ8.

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Saturday 24th October 2015
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PlayersNo6 said:
Firstly a thousand apologies for not replying to my own thread. Thank you for all the replies.

I've ordered the Kumho Ecsta KH31 HM, they seem to get good user reviews online, German test results etc - paid £70 each delivered from tyreleader. Camskill had a great price on Avon ZV5 at about £73 each delivered but it increased to about £89 overnight the day I went to order - now not listed at all. Seems many manufacturers are discontinuing this size completely.

Will report back on the Kumhos once fitted and done a few miles.

Sorry you're no longer contributing Steve. I found your threads and answers incredibly useful when buying my XJ8.
In a way I'm sorry too. Before I retired part of my job was writing operating instructions and repair manuals for electronic component manufacturing equipment. Decades of doing that and a previous career as a multi franchise mechanic as well as being a life long car enthusiast - I took my first engine to bits in the late 1960s - put me in a fairly good place to use responses on PH to test and differentiate between what I actually knew as a proven fact from what I only thought I knew as well as helping out when I could.

Like most mechanics and technicians I've known I like the discipline of precise analytical thought and place high value on proven facts as tools. There's no way to bullst your way to looking clever or skilled on any repair job as the moment someone starts work using information you've supplied or presses the start button on a process you've written it's your nuts on the table too so you'd better get every single bit of what you say absolutely crystal clear and 100% factually correct or you can be certain bad things will happen. Writing information for others with that obligation to the absolute truth in mind is often the best way of sharpening your own knowledge you'll ever find and that self improvement has always been my ultimate motivation for posting.

I've caught a considerable amount of crap on PH for expressing opinions other disagree with and that pretty much reflects the decline of the PH atmosphere from friendly and often hilarious banter to aggressive and hostile stupidity over recent years.That in itself doesn't matter - I can give as good as I get and ultimately my opinions are just noise, same as everyone else's and really aren't important.

But when you encounter the same aggressive hostility when dealing with the actual facts and correcting a incorrect one and advising the use of anti seize compound on a known corrosion area during reassembly there's a line crossed and just like a couple of other regular Jaguar posters on here who it was pretty obvious they knew what they were talking about have done in the past I've decided the grief isn't worth the effort of getting involved and it's time to just kick back and watch.

Cheers for all the compliments though Chaps. beer

JS