Good choice of tyre, but I am hoping that you will be fitting them to the rear also. :eek: don't mismatch the tyres, it's not a good idea.

That would be good advice on a well balanced car - but the Furby is SO nose heavy and prone to understeer that replacing the fronts with new sticky rubber (F1s or T1-Rs) can only help matters*

*IMO of course - I'm on my first set of T1-Rs on the front having gone through a set of F1s and the original Michelins. Original Michelins still on the rear....and lots of tread left after 53k.

I did the same as you with mine and ran T1-R's with the Michelins on the back. Unless you are going to drive hard enough to make the rear slide, it doesn't affect a thing, and if you get it sliding, you are losing balance and control. What they WILL do is give you more traction on the driving wheels and give you less power-understeer, especially in the wet. When you then put matching tyres on the rear, it'll drive just the same.

If an ESP system is involved, the tyres must match or it is next to useless.

Having run a car with mis-matched tyres, I'd not be keen to do it again unless the tread pattern was the same. I think the real key is the relative difference in grip between front and rear which you want to be as close as possible for safe, stable, predictable handling.

Chris

/\ Why? The tread pattern may make a difference to water dispersion rates (but not always the one you'd expect from the land/sea ratio). What makes much more of a difference to grip is carcase stiffness and tread compound.

/\ Why? The tread pattern may make a difference to water dispersion rates (but not always the one you'd expect from the land/sea ratio). What makes much more of a difference to grip is carcase stiffness and tread compound.

Yup and all else being equal (same load rating and tyre target market) I'd want the same ability to disperse water too

Chris