Purely out of interest, seeing as we're talking tyres anyway, i ordered a set of Uniroyal Rainsport 3 summer tyres for the old Benz yesterday, the winter Nokians must be in line for their 5th or 6th shift this coming season, still got 5mm so maybe good for next year too, IMHO the Nokians are not as good as the Vreds were in cold wet or snow, but that was a different type of vehicle altogether.
The reason the Uniroyals have been ordered is that i conducted my own experiment last year, i've always avoided budget makes and seeing a set of Federal Formoza2 at a frankly ridiculously cheap price i decided to test my own prejudices just for the hell of it.
Last year, the first year, they were OK, amazingly quiet and gave a very smooth ride which they still do, in that respect they are very good and if used in the dry only a superb tyre, however now they are down to 5/6mm, i've had two serious oversteers last week in the wet, plus excessive wheelspin leading to tail out oversteer on a straight wet road, this slipperiness was never encountered once with the previous Toyo T1R's. Leaving work is a busy, slippery when wet slightly uphill pull out and in the wet is proving increasingly dicey/embarassing with them fitted, so my one man experiment has confirmed to me that i'll carry on with my prejudices (drift sceners would love them) and flog the Federals on as soon as the Uni's arrive.
Bought a set of Cooper WeatherMaster winters for the Outback just after we bought the thing in March/April, they haven't been used yet, this is a make i haven't tried before but were on offer at such a silly price i couldn't not buy them, the brand new winter set already fitted to the spare wheels were of Chinese extraction and will be sold on when the time is right.
Not suggesting my findings are in any way scientific, others with different cars skills and expectations might find very differently.
Edited by gordonbennet on 02/09/2014 at 10:29
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