He probably just can't supply them or has extra stock of the premacy's. Years ago when I was a young fella I got some bad advice from a Bob Jane guy, recommended I fit 205's to my twin cam corolla (175's as standard from memory) at the time, it handled like a bag of sh!t, I suspect he had a set their and saw me a as a way to offload them, obvioulsy this is just my experience but ever since I've been wary of the big tyre store chains. I should have taken the car back and insisted on them changing them, but being young and naive I did want to admit I made a bad decision....pugsy said:Hey GTI124, you might already know that the MXV3A are not longer being made and are replaced by the Primacy according to Bob Jane, i can get the Preceda in my size but is it worth the extra $25 a tyre, the guy at Bob Janes does'nt think so.
I've always had good performance from Pirelli's, I'm running P7000's at the moment and previously ran P700-Z's. I've also been driving on some Continentals lately in other cars and these are very impressive. For anyone in Sydney I can recommend a good "independant" tyre dealer, I've been dealing with him for more than 12 years and he knows his stuff including motorsport tyres. PM me if you want contact details.
I've heard alot of people over the years say that you need to run Michellins on Pug's cause "thats what they're designed around", I think this is a little naive. I found that with a better performance tyre, like the Pirelli's, the handling stays the same just the grip level increases. I ran Yokohama A008R's while I was doing some club racing a while ago and again the handling characteristics where the same the level of grip was just much, much higher, they only lasted 10k's though! I notice now that Pirelli's are standard on most performance Pugs, I know the 307 XSI comes with P-Zero Rosso's, a very high performance tyre indeed!
pugsy said:The S3 orginally had 185/55, and when I got the car it had 195/55, is there a difference in ride if you go to 50 series tyres!
195/55 is definetly the wrong size for the 205, running this size will adversly affect handling and also acceleration. 195/50/15 is the best size for a good ride/handling balance. The ride will be slightly firmer but pay off is better turn-in, feedback and grip.