Uniroyal Rainsport 3's.....

[S4_dan]

Are the above any good? My car passed it's MOT on Friday and two tyres are 2mm. I normally stick with Conti Contact sports as I have no issues with them at all. However, I managed to get a good deal on 4 Uniroyal RS3's.
Never had Uniroyals before. Get them fitted late next week.

Cheers.

 

[Gazwould]

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Uniroyal/Rainsport-3.htm

 

[S4_dan]

^^^^ I was just reading that then came to this comment.

 

[Bbflex]

Sorry to drag up an old thread but how did you get on with these with the quattro? being non directional I was wondering if it messes with the Torsen diff at all or if you have noticed any squirming from the tyres when on the limit?

As a whole though I like the unyroyals and the rs3's are a brilliant tyre, wet grip is phenominal, very decent tyre for very decent price.

 

[S4_dan]

No problems what so ever and they have surpassed my expectations in the snow and wet! Extremely pleased with them. No Torsen issues on my 2.5 V6 Quattro.
I ran Goodyear Eagle F1 asymmetric 2 on my B5 S4 with no problems on the Torsen diff too.

 

[Gazwould]

Which ones do you prefer ?

 

[Bbflex]

Thanks for following up, iv been very pleased with all the uniroyal range, I used there winter tyres there rs2's and there rs3's and even there standard rain sports with good results, just not on a 4wd or anything with a locking diff, the wet grip on rs3's is phenominal for the price.

 

[barkclark]

Just had 4 rs3's fitted for about £300. Great tyre for the price. Really cannot fault them!

 

[Gazwould]

Do they have much of a rim protector ?

 

[Bbflex]

Yes decent enough, more than the hankook v12's atleast

Hard to see on this picture but these where slightly stretched on the rim



And the alloy that I caught on the curb, you can see the rim protector has tried to do it's job.

 

[S3 GAZ]

Do they wear any quicker due to wet grip performance?
This is with my F1 head on lol

 

[S4_dan]

I have only done about 2k on them and haven't noticed any significant wear as yet. Still look brand new to be honest.

 

[Bbflex]

They aren't overly soft, I did probably close to 10k with 80% motorway 20% honing and spinning tyres and they had a good 5-6mm left on them.

Iirc they took a couple af thousand miles to bed in so hopefully they get better for you s4 Dan, they felt a bit wary for a while, the rs2's used to be really sketchy till they bedded in, they used to feel all floaty because of the deep tread.

 

[S3 GAZ]

Cheers guys. Will be a good contender for my next tyres. As it practically rains 70% of the time here in Ayrshire.

 

[barkclark]

Cheers guys. Will be a good contender for my next tyres. As it practically rains 70% of the time here in Ayrshire.

Same here in Lanarkshire! That's why I've bought them! Had the old RS2's on my old fiesta too!

 

[S3 GAZ]

Same here in Lanarkshire! That's why I've bought them! Had the old RS2's on my old fiesta too!

Makes sense running a tyre desinged for the wet for somewhere that's wet most of the time