RE: tires for 4kcsq

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

rwoods@triad1.com (Ron Woods) wrote:

>When I bought my 86 4KCSQ New eleven years ago, it came stock with Pirrelli P6
>tires. I have never tried anything else and continue to replace the tires with
>the P6 tires. I have been VERY pleased with these tires in all conditions.
>They
>are excellent on dry and wet surfaces, and here in Minnesota very good on snow
>as well. I guess you might say I'm stuck on Pirrelli's and have no
>intentions to
>go to anything else. This is my success story, hopefully others out there will
>have their opinions for you as well.

I concur on the Pirelli idea (although there are other good tyres about,
but the P6 was never one of my favourites (especially when compared to the
P8 and their newer series). I wonder how you get them nowadays, though: to
my knowledge, the P6 was discontinued when they introduced the P2000 and
P4000- about four to five years ago... (although this may differ for the US
market). I'm a fan of the P2000, especially in the wet. I look forward to
the day that my front suspension will once more be able to show off these
tyres' capacity for high cornering speeds- not a good idea with extremely
worn front struts. I'd love to go to P4000s in 195 instead of my current
185s (one size up from standard already), but my unassisted steering is
heavy enough as it is...

Bye,

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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1988 Audi 80 1.8S, Tizianrot metallic, 210,000km

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