tyres

[griphot]

hello everyone with an elise, Thanks for all the advise that has been given to me on this forum. I am now the V proud owner of a S1 elise that I perchased from Sportomotive. Question time. I will be driving the car to get from my house(bristol) to my work (Portsmouth) but only once a week and then around portsmouth during the week. Can I have some names of some good allround Elise tyres, not track ones, just ones that are good for road driving. Ta

Dave

[S Works]

On a budget? BF Goodrich G Force Profilers. About £300 a set.
Money no object? Yokohama Advan Neova LTS. About £450-500 a set.

The latter are by far the best Tyres you can get for an S1 with mixed use.

[StuartB]

No point spending a fortune on the tyres if you aren't going to take it on a track.

There are also Toyo T1-R's you could consider which are going to be cheaper still.
Other ones you might entertain
Yohama A539
Pirelli P-Zero's
Avon ZZ3 / ZV3

I run BFG GFP's and they are great :up:

Generally speaking almost any new set of tyres will be better than an old set

>> Edited by StuartB on Monday 24th April 16:32

>> Edited by StuartB on Monday 24th April 16:33

[Davey S2]

Get some Yokohama AO48's or alternatively just sit in your back garden and set fire to £20 notes.

Sorry need to replace all of mine and am not all that enthused about the £650 required to do it.

Best budget ones for you will be the BFG's or Toyo's.

[iccees]

http://forums.seloc.org/viewthread.ph

[sp60]

Just out of curiousity, where do peeps get tyres changed?
Presumably places like kwik fit may not be best instructed on the jacking
points of an elise. I've seen a number of these places just roll a trolley
jack under and start cranking without regard to proper seating of the platform.
Any experiences, comments?

[james33]

The idea of having those heavy handed spotty adolescents anywhere near my car makes me cringe.

[ayjay]

if you are anywhere south of london,,,, micheldever tyres are probably the best bet... they are cheap and they know what they are doing (an elise is easy for them when they normally re-boot raris and the like)

[sp60]

bit of a way to travel from south manchester

[sp60]

james33 said:

The idea of having those heavy handed spotty adolescents anywhere near my car makes me cringe.

So....who does yours?

[james33]

My mechanic will sort, I was seconding your comment about kwik fit being rough and ready with cars.