tires for 4kq

[Tom Nas]

Larry C Leung <l.leung at juno.com> wrote:

>Oh, I dunno. I had the original equipment Goodyear Eagle GT HR (no 4, no
>GA, no anything else) on my new A2 GTi ('85). VWoA apparently had
>commissioned Goodyear to design the tire for the car (as is often done
>for new design vehicles). I thought that they were quite exceptional
>tires on the car, both dry and wet (I had separate snows, I lived in the
>snowbelt of NY then), the only thing that was rather poor about them is
>that they could barely make 18K miles....

I second that. The Ronal R8 ET35s I bought about a year ago had part-worn
NCT2s on two of them. Excellent tyres, made the car feel like it ran on
rails. Low noise, great in wet and dry.

I've been told they don't make 'em like that anymore. Shame.

Tom