Recommend me a soft walled low profile tyre

[HertsBiker]

Am fed up with tramlining and rock hard rides. Current pirellis are twitchy, but grippy. I'd like smooth and comfy. Grip is essential. Recommend me something! Tyres are 235 40 18. Longevity not an issue.

[ikarl]

What car?

[HertsBiker]

ikarl said:

What car?

Mondeo

[kev b]

Swap to 16" steels, they are cheap, light and easily available and the tyres are higher profile so no crashy ride.

[zb]

Uniroyal Rainsport 2

[rich83]

Goodyear F1 asymmetric 2. Great grip and fairly soft sidewalls.

[HarryW]

Uniroyal if they are still in business always had a name for soft side wall, don't know if it's factual though. I found Goodyear to be soft myself. I suppose a Good indicator too is go for a lower load rating (not too low for the car though!).

[HarryW]

Re read your post 40 profile is quite low for a normal hatchback type car, is there a 17 or 16 wheel, so you can go higher side wall on the softer tyre too.

[CoolHands]

Dunlop 3D winter tyres. They feel nice, and have good grip.

[Sheepshanks]

Are the tyres rated XL (extra load)? They're always going to be stiff, especially at 40 profile.

[HertsBiker]

Thanks all. Do I need XL as that is what it's running? The nexans it used to have were fine!!!

[Riley Blue]

HertsBiker said:

The nexans it used to have were fine!!!

There's your answer then, buy Nexans - see, you knew it all along...

[ManOpener]

rich83 said:

Goodyear F1 asymmetric 2. Great grip and fairly soft sidewalls.

This would be my suggestion. Soft enough to make a positive difference in the ride quality on my Leon, not so soft that everything feels woolly when pressing on.
Great tyres. You won't need XLs.

[kambites]

Eagle F1s are fairly soft and are a very good tyre in terms of grip, progressiveness, etc. They certainly helped on the wife's Octavia which runs a similar size.

Alternatively, Toyo T1-Rs are really (as in vomit inducingly, at lest on an Elise) soft.



If you want a big improvement though, changing the wheels to something smaller and lighter would be your best option.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 18th June 08:02

[Sheepshanks]

HertsBiker said:

Do I need XL as that is what it's running? The

You need them if XL is specified for your car.

[TurboHatchback]

Soft sidewalls with low profile tyres sounds like a good recipe for destroying your alloys to me. I would either put up with the ride or look at fitting smaller wheels myself.

[CO2000]

Uniroyal Rainsport 3's and/or can you go to a 45 profile?

[HertsBiker]

TurboHatchback said:

Soft sidewalls with low profile tyres sounds like a good recipe for destroying your alloys to me. I would either put up with the ride or look at fitting smaller wheels myself.

It came with this size, I've no wish to buy more wheels and then have insurance niggles. A couple of companies I insure with load up the premium even if you go smaller! I like the suggestions so far though, thanks.

[CraigyMc]

HertsBiker said:

TurboHatchback said:

Soft sidewalls with low profile tyres sounds like a good recipe for destroying your alloys to me. I would either put up with the ride or look at fitting smaller wheels myself.

It came with this size, I've no wish to buy more wheels and then have insurance niggles. A couple of companies I insure with load up the premium even if you go smaller! I like the suggestions so far though, thanks.

TH is correct. The only way to make a smaller amount of rubber cope with the weight is to make it stiffer.

For your requirements you'd be better off with smaller wheels and tyres with a more sensible ratio, but I understand what you're saying about insurance. I refuse to drive about on compromised (too big + heavy) wheels any more.

The smaller tyres will be so much cheaper they'll probably counteract any insurance uplift anyway.

[HarryW]

When you say it came with them, were they standard to the model or an option because as far as insurance goes the option may not even be on the insurance?

Edited by HarryW on Wednesday 18th June 22:26