TheWanderer

So you can literally drive a lemon.

Nope. I saw something similar on a BMW and it looks awful.

I had mine changed a while back and it was £128, it went up between me booking the appointment and the work being done. I guess I should have prepaid it. 😒

Found these https://www.autopartuk.com/tyre-calculator https://tire-calc.com/ Is 1mph with the tolerance of speed cameras and speed guns?

Thanks for that. Something else to consider.

Has it made any difference in the handling of the car? More importantly does it affect the speedo? Atm my speedo reads +3 of actual, speed according to a GPS speedo.

I don't want a 4x4 thanks. I can make do with my current car on winter tyre's. Which has proven to be better than a 4x4 on a couple of occasions, dealing with snow and ice with aplomb.

I find it odd that you would need them, the car should have a tourist mode and adjust the headlights accordingly, my current car does.

The Lane Assist function is normally switched on, all of the time. That's the way its always been. Is it meant to be normally switched off? I don't know? I took it for a quick spin this morning on the A25 Newlands Corner and the bends on the loop of Clandon and Trodds Lane and it just feels a little vague. It's in the workshop now for a few days to have the bumper, wing and headlight washers fixed, so won't be able to give it any further tests until Friday. I'm certain that the tyres are the issue as it never handled like this on the original tyres.

When I say dive down, it's hard to describe it, I suppose wallowing sensation, even with the suspension on normal, I've had the car checked and everything is fine, all good. It's just plain weird.

I just find them fidgety, I can be on the perfect line entering the corner and it's like bad under or oversteer and I need to react fast to correct it and this isn't at high speeds, this is at 30 or 40 mph! The car seems to dive down on the appropriate side, depending on whether it's a left or right hand corner. At higher speeds they don't seem to do it, but they still don't inspire me with any level of confidence in their grip or handling... Two of my favourite roads are the A358 and B3224, which have some lovely twists and turns, but with these tyres I have to drive like a granny! My car has ACC, so it should be able to deal with our cart track roads in Surrey, NE Hampshire and West Sussex.

It's going to have to wait until payday anyway, because I've got a £700 bill for repairs to the car, thanks to a courier driver who bashed the front bumper and wing and did one without leaving any details and I've now got a chipped tooth, so looking at another £200 there, so it's about 3rd on the list of priorities at the moment. I'll book it in for an alignment check at a test centre around payday.

Getting rid of the car in about 10 months or so, so no modifications are going to happen, the car is just on routine maintenance until it goes.

Pilot Sport 4's. They don't inspire any confidence at all, even on some of the lovely sweeping bends on some of the West Country Moor roads, even the long sweeping curve on the M40 I don't trust them, yet the old Asymmetrics stuck like glue to the road, not the slightest loss of grip. The alignment was done a while ago (<6 months) , so should be fine

Yes, that's about 10 months or more away. Another RS and I'm starting to have reservations about it, but I can't find anything that would be as good as an RS for practicality. Still a bit of vitriol there I see.

Can someone give me some advice on some decent tyres for my abysmal RS, I've got Michelin PS4s on at the moment and they are absolutely 💩 TBQH. They're checked for pressure and they are correct, but put the car into any moderate bend and I have to fight it and this has only started to happen since I changed to them. So I want rid, which is really annoying as they've only done about 3½-4k miles. It's so annoying that they are going to be sent to the tyre scrap yard so soon and I've wasted £360 on what are very poor tyres. Generally I like Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric tyres, Conti's, Hankook aren't bad... Pirelli are also naff, had more than a few of them go pop or had sidewall problems..

A bit of security advice, don't put your home address into your sat nav memory, put a street in your locality instead. That way any thieves who may get into your car, won't have a precise location for the keys should they access the system. They will look elsewhere.

I was just wondering what tyres the RS comes with? Got some Michelin PS4s on the current RS and TBQH they're the biggest pile of 💩, going, very poor grip on bends and bumpy roads, so will be changing them to Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3, despite having only done about 4k miles on them.

Just get a PD or USB C to USB C cable, not the perfect solution but it would work.

Another place to look is AliExpress. I found a few there.

Do you mean something like this at amazon?

So would I be correct in thinking that if the car only downloads the locales, if you drive to say France, Germany etc, it will download it en route when you input the destination and then automatically update the clock and headlights so they're set correctly for driving on the right?

That's fine. 🙂

I don't have a iPhone, a Galaxy S20 5G+ at the moment, might be getting a S22 Ultra soon, if I can get a good discount on one via our works site.

You can get special sticky residue removers, also nail varnish remover takes it off, but it can affect the finish.