Vanquish Gen 2 Tyres

[AMZEY1]

Hello,

Are people generally happy with the AM branded Pirelli tyres that come as standard on the car, I'm picking up a Vanquish next week and all 4 tyres are these ones with loads of tread left. I have always put Michelins on my cars, just preferred them. The thing is, in the standard sizes (255/35/20 & 305/30/20), you can only buy the Pilot 4 (non S), which is not their High Performance Tyre and then only the Cup 2, which might be a bit overkill.

Has anyone had any luck in getting the Pilot Sport 4S, or have you changed tyre sizes a little ?

Would love to hear you opinions, cheers.

[Finding Neutral]

Pilot cups aren’t the right tyre for the application (on road).

They’re also horribly noisy and vibey.


Pirelli’s suck, but that’s just my opinion.


Hopefully someone will come along re p4s’s. To throw something else in the mix, what about the new eagle f1’s?

[AMZEY1]

Yes, Eagle SuperSport F1's are available in the correct sizes, assuming those are the ones you mean? Think I put them on an Audi TT once, they were pretty decent to be fair.

Probably worth a look, thanks. Anyone else put Goodyears on ? Problem is, we are limited on choice due to the sizes.

[Longy00000]

Well I've lived with the pirelli's on my Vanquish S for almost a month now and have to say they aren't great. Fine when pootling around but when you give it full beans I think there must be better options out there.
I am like yourself a new owner and the car came with 4 almost brand new tyres on it so am not changing just yet as I am too tight for that- I need my monies worth from the Pirelli's first

I just hope that michelin will have added more sizes by the time I need to change them but the P Zeros aren't great on this car.

[SHIFTY]

There are quite a few options on the Blackcircles web page

https://www.blackcircles.com

[AMZEY1]

Thanks but I have already looked on there and their isn't much choice. I am only looking for the premium brands, like Continental, Michelin, Bridgestone or Goodyear. If you find the fronts in one brand, they don't do the matching ones for the rear !

I have only found (on black circles website), Ps4 (non-s) and Goodyear F1, matching front/rear.

I've heard good things about the new Bridgestone potenza sport but no matching rear tyre and also the brand new Continental sport 7 but not available in 20" yet.

[AMZEY1]

Longy00000 said:

Well I've lived with the pirelli's on my Vanquish S for almost a month now and have to say they aren't great. Fine when pootling around but when you give it full beans I think there must be better options out there.
I am like yourself a new owner and the car came with 4 almost brand new tyres on it so am not changing just yet as I am too tight for that- I need my monies worth from the Pirelli's first

I just hope that michelin will have added more sizes by the time I need to change them but the P Zeros aren't great on this car.

Yep - exactly same boat as you, almost new pirelli's all round - will try harder to wear them out quickly :-) Even if I can get them down to 3-4mm, I'll change them then but it would be silly to change now, must get some use out of them.

[DB9VolanteDriver]

P4S are available in the correct sizes for Vanq 2, here in the US (not that it helps you).

[LTP]

DB9VolanteDriver said:

P4S are available in the correct sizes for Vanq 2, here in the US (not that it helps you).

They're also available in the correct size for the Vantage 'S' over there as well. So that's another reason to hate you and Michelin

[AMZEY1]

Why the heck can't we get them over here then ?!!! French, probably bloody hate us :-)

[Longy00000]

If they are available in the US maybe they only work in straight lines and can't go around corners?
Just a thought

[Phil57DBS]

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2022-Tyre-Revi...

[AMZEY1]

Thanks for that link, those Continental Sport Contact 7's sound amazing, would love to try those next - had a quick look and they make them in our rear tyre size, just not the fronts. They are a relatively new tyre, so lets hope the release some more sizes soon.