Rear tyres help (225/55/16)
Discussion
The other weekend when I was doing some pre-winter rear chassis maintenance I noticed my rear tyres had only about 3-3.5 mm thread on them which I consider to be a bit marginal for the season. I may want to have them replaced before TiTT, but I'm a bit at a loss with which. Current ones are Vredestein Ultrac 225/55/16, as they don't do any Ultracs for the front I went for Dunlop SP9000s which I thought would match the characteristics of the Vredesteins well but were getting on a bit even then. The Dunlops have about 4,000 miles on them now and like brand new.
Now I know one probably should go for the same front and rear but I'm unsure about getting such a relatively ancient tyre - surely there must be something better out here that would still provide a good matc with the fronts? Thought about Dunlop SportMaxx, but they don't seem to get ratings tht much better...
The top rated tyre in this size seems to be the Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD-3 (the Eagle F1s in the front 205/55/15 size are actually the older and vastly inferior GSD-2, hence my choice for the Dunlops back then) - would they provide a good match?
It would be great of course if tyre manufacturers would provide their latest and best designs for both the rear and front wheels of our cars...
And no, I'm not going to 'upgrade' the fronts to 16s... even if I could get a set of rear OZ split rims for the front I reckon they'd look pretty stupid...
Now I know one probably should go for the same front and rear but I'm unsure about getting such a relatively ancient tyre - surely there must be something better out here that would still provide a good matc with the fronts? Thought about Dunlop SportMaxx, but they don't seem to get ratings tht much better...
The top rated tyre in this size seems to be the Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD-3 (the Eagle F1s in the front 205/55/15 size are actually the older and vastly inferior GSD-2, hence my choice for the Dunlops back then) - would they provide a good match?
It would be great of course if tyre manufacturers would provide their latest and best designs for both the rear and front wheels of our cars...
And no, I'm not going to 'upgrade' the fronts to 16s... even if I could get a set of rear OZ split rims for the front I reckon they'd look pretty stupid...
JKY said:
Is 225/50/16 the correct size on the rear - if you have 55 then you are running a higher than standard sidewall.........
55 aspect is correct for the standard fronts.
It's an early one - std sizes were 205/60/15 (in which size there are no suitable tyres left, hence the 205/55) and 225/55/16... I'd like to retain the latter if only for the fact that the speedo willbe calibrated for that size...55 aspect is correct for the standard fronts.
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