New Tyres not performing very well

TBH, I have never heard a good thing from anyone who ownes Dunlops...

My dad said he put them on both of his Audi's once and was totally dissapointed with them! They wear quickly and the let go in the slightest bit of wet...

My brother in law used to them on his Mazda until he got fed up of replacing them within a year! He used to say that you would get more grip from slick tyres than Dunlop all year tyres...

BB

Hmmm...not sure...

But 1000miles sounds an awful lot for the tyres to have not bedded in...

I decided to go for Toyo's on my 525I and they were a lightly light in the grip department for the first 2 days or so after I bought them. Then they started gripping like mad and have not let go since...which annoys me because I like making screetching noises when I corner quickly ...

Did you have your camber and alignment checked when you had the tyres put on?

BB

Def worth the squid to get everything checked...

When I first bought my 5, the car used to handle strangly through the corners...almost like it was following a set of rails or something. The steering wheel would also not centre after coming out of a corner...it would stay in the direction that I had turned the car and continue driving in that direction...gave me quite a shock the first time as I had never felt this before in a car...usually when I accelerated out of a corner in other peoples cars, the steering wheel would pull itself back to centre...

Once I had the alignment and camber checked, they discovered that it was just slightly out... Once having it rectified, the car handled beautifully through corners with no problems at all...

I now pay the 12pounds odd and get the alignment checked every 6000 miles...with a good "Hunter" alignment machine...

BB

Edit: When was the last time you had it checked?

Kin,

its just not right. The car was stuck to the road on the old tyres in the dry. They were well bald before I replaced them but they were still gripped well. I dont umderstand why the new ones are so bad.

This is a 525 auto so I dont rally it but its still very noticable.

Mick

Kin Mak wrote: ...but I don't think any normal road driving will produce this effect.

Hmmm...strange words from an M5 owner...... whats normal road driving?

BB

I know it might be painful but if it is the tyres I would just replace them. Ask the place you got it off if they will take the tyres back for some money and they can sell it off as nearly new.

You can imagine the ammount of tyres I went through the 2.5 years of ownership of the M5, the difference between good and very good is vast. I can only imagine the difference between bad and very good.

Feck sake €720 for 4 tyres (not M5 money but still)....... ill put up with them.... I am going to get the setup checked tomorrow and if thats no good then back to the tyre fitters for a scrap. I check the pressures every week with a digital tyre guage. I have tried them hard and softish...

Maybe Im not driving it hard enough to scrub them in..... must try harder.....

Ill let you know tomorrow.

Mick

You paid €740 for all 4 of your tyres and you got crappy dunlop ones? Yikes you got screwed a bit there. Were the SP 9000 or Eagle F1s a lot more expensive?

As for tyre pressure guages, most will be accurate enough. Seriously, 1psi either way is not going to make your car madly unstable. Also I heard the silder guages are the most inaccurate of them all. Forgot where I read that.