What make of tyre, does the fabia vrs come with?

For those of you with the car already are yours the same?

Michelin Pilot Primacys

205/45/16 W rated

i know because ive had a puncture already :(

thats bad luck colin i think they will be dear when time to renew comes

welcome to briskoda

Is it me, or would a set of 205/40 R17s have a significantly bigger rolling radius than a set of 205/45 R16s? - I'm just thinking that if my wheels went on to a vRS, it could cause more funny gearing/speedo changes. :confused:

Originally posted by adaadams in this post

thats bad luck colin i think they will be dear when time to renew comes

welcome to briskoda

Yeah. it was on the way to the NW meet.

Luckily it has a full size spare

ive had the spare put on the alloy now, think i might get a cheap tyre to go in as spare just in case.

ill prob get different tyres when the time comes, i dont rate these in the wet - terrible!

Originally posted by devonutopia in this post

Is it me, or would a set of 205/40 R17s have a significantly bigger rolling radius than a set of 205/45 R16s?

Jason, feed the figures into the tyre size calculator here. (There is a 0.83% difference in rolling diameter and your speedo will underread by 0.58mph, ie 70mph indicated would equal 70.58mph true).

Originally posted by Neo_VR in this post

ill prob get different tyres when the time comes, i dont rate these in the wet - terrible!

Aha! I was wondering about that. Grip in the wet I reckon is p00. Absolute p@nts. In fact, just acceleration in second in the wet can cause wheelspin! :(

Thanks for the info.

I ran Michelin Primacy 205/50/16 on my Focus and the grip in the dry was fantastic, but in the wet it was a completely different story. The Pirellis I had previously were the exact opposite, living in York with the flooding every year, a good wet tyre is essential.

Its weird though, watch F1 or WRC and when it starts to rain the Michelin runners fall away. Why can't they make a decent wet tyre?

Mitchelin tend to go for longetivity and low rolling resistance.. all michelin tyres get praised for those factors. but it goes waywards when the roads get greasy and wet..

it was slightly disconcerting last week when i was going down the slip road onto the mway in "greasy" conditions. it was downhill too, doin about 40mph, booted it and i got nothing but a flashing tc light until 4th gear.

ill probably change these for some toyos or pirellis when they die, or i get 17"s

I've got 205/40 17 Toyo proxes on my 17's that are going on my vRS.

As mentioned before near enough same rolling radius.

:cheers: Denis. Nice site that. I remember looking at it from work where it didn't work very well.

I worked out going my steels to alloys was a 3.15% rolling radius difference. :eek: I knew there was a difference, but I didn't know it was 3% - I wonder if I can blame that on my speeding incident? [thinking] - Nah, because it still meant my speedo had to reading out at 76mph.