New tyres

[joust]

I discovered a rather poorly rear tyre on Saturday with metal threads showing and a big chunk starting to delaminates from the main tyre! Being down in Dorset the replacement choices were limited but ProTyre has a complete set of Falken F452s in stock. At 560 for the lot it seemed a bargain and having had 452s on the Z4M for some time and being very happy I decided to have a punt.

They are great, I threw mud, leaves and all sorts of slippery stuff at them down Dorset's B roads, as well as some very 1 factor+ runs down Sussexs finest roads and found them exceptionally grippy (no wheel spin in 2nd full throttle which is rare) and turn in being sharp along with a very gentle break away probably just before the Corsa's would go made them very confidence inspiring.

Worth a look given the cost! Their street legal track day tyre might be my next play.

J

[Gadgeroonie]

thats interesting

I had heard they are a good tyre

be interesting to see if they "go off" on a track day

[joust]

I'd imagine they'd not be that brilliant for track as have quite narrow blocks of rubber, although the centre band and the reasonably large edge blocks should provide a reasonable amount of lateral resistance I would have thought.



Unlikely to find out as I rarely have the time to track the M400 nowadays

J

[TuxMan]

I run them on Dawns MRoadster , cracking tyre !!

[playalistic]

I had those on the Z4M for a while. They went off quick on track and the sidewalls are shockingly soft. They needed a few extra PSI to help the turn in. Also, they wear very fast but I suspect that was more down to my driving style

[Chapppers]

Pretty old design by now though! I had them on my escort back in 2003!