I decided to get myself some new boots for my S3, have always gone for Conti's but a few people had commented on how they had gone down hill the last couple of years and the Autocar review seemed to say this too... I had Pirreli Rosso's on the car when I bought it and always felt it lacked grip compared to my A3, so decided to go for the F1 Asymetics... As 225, 40 r18s....
What a bad idea that was... As soon as I got in the car, drove out the garage and I instantly noticed body roll, and what felt like a very slight dead spot on my steering... Thought it must be them bedding in or they had left the sticker on, so drove home semi-carefully and couldn't get over how different the car felt... In a bad way...
The car now has what can only be described as a slight shimmy when changing direction, almost as if the tyre walls are flexing under the load... and it now pushes out the nose when you turn in, then you get a bit of what feels like the wheels at the back flexing giving a bit of oversteer and then you get understeer again... Really not good... Also, at Mway speeds the car seems to be very unsettled, and essentially wiggling in straight line... Not losing grip but more flexing of the tyre... Not good... Actually best way to describe is like driving a Citreon with the suspension set to high level... What sharpness the S3 had before has gone completley and dare I say it my old A3 handled better...
I have left them on for 500miles now and been careful not to push them too much after reading you need to run them in... Checked the tyre pressures when I first got them and they were set to 38psi at the front and 42 at the rear, which was different to the 36 front and 35.5 I used to run on the pirrellis... Dropped this down to 36F and 36R as per the fuel cap and it has made little difference at all, slightly better... But, still the same handling problems, ... Checked tyres are all fitted in the right direction and that they seem balanced... They actually seem better balanced than my old set...
Has anyone else had this problem and what pressures does everyone else run their F1's at?
I am genuinely gutted, spent £400 on a set of rubber that feels like i'm running on £20 Nankangpatang cheapo tyres... :-(
What a bad idea that was... As soon as I got in the car, drove out the garage and I instantly noticed body roll, and what felt like a very slight dead spot on my steering... Thought it must be them bedding in or they had left the sticker on, so drove home semi-carefully and couldn't get over how different the car felt... In a bad way...
The car now has what can only be described as a slight shimmy when changing direction, almost as if the tyre walls are flexing under the load... and it now pushes out the nose when you turn in, then you get a bit of what feels like the wheels at the back flexing giving a bit of oversteer and then you get understeer again... Really not good... Also, at Mway speeds the car seems to be very unsettled, and essentially wiggling in straight line... Not losing grip but more flexing of the tyre... Not good... Actually best way to describe is like driving a Citreon with the suspension set to high level... What sharpness the S3 had before has gone completley and dare I say it my old A3 handled better...
I have left them on for 500miles now and been careful not to push them too much after reading you need to run them in... Checked the tyre pressures when I first got them and they were set to 38psi at the front and 42 at the rear, which was different to the 36 front and 35.5 I used to run on the pirrellis... Dropped this down to 36F and 36R as per the fuel cap and it has made little difference at all, slightly better... But, still the same handling problems, ... Checked tyres are all fitted in the right direction and that they seem balanced... They actually seem better balanced than my old set...
Has anyone else had this problem and what pressures does everyone else run their F1's at?
I am genuinely gutted, spent £400 on a set of rubber that feels like i'm running on £20 Nankangpatang cheapo tyres... :-(
