The only Pirellis I've known to be really bad in the wet were the original P6, which I had on a Golf GTI MkII and were terrible. They wouldn't take you round a roundabout in the rain. Quite literally. The later P600 (was there ever a P60?) were better, the P6000 (on a Jaguar S-Type) were very good and P Zero Rosso N3 (on a 911) were excellent - well, for 8,000 miles.
(My only experience of cheap tyres was a mistake. NEXEN on a 4.2-litre Jaguar. They were OK - not bad tyres - but just not as good as the car and not worth the money saved.)
Michelin PS2 (on the 911) were excellent, but never as good as the Rosso N3, although they lasted more than twice as long. But, as I've said elsewhere, the PS2 could 'float' momentarily on good, dry surfaces at high speed, which meant, in reality, that they kept me below 150.
As for the new, 2016 P Zero ... well, they score better than Goodyear Asymmetric 3 in some reviews, but worse in others and there's always the echo of 'Bad in the rain' from the past. So, I'm going to have to suck 'em & see.
(37 & 45psi are the advised pressures on the 35is at an ambient air temperature of 20 degrees C. So, in winter, I'll experiment with lower, but not much.)
Whatever, they're not expensive and, if they're poor, I'll change 'em. I'm not proud.
(My only experience of cheap tyres was a mistake. NEXEN on a 4.2-litre Jaguar. They were OK - not bad tyres - but just not as good as the car and not worth the money saved.)
Michelin PS2 (on the 911) were excellent, but never as good as the Rosso N3, although they lasted more than twice as long. But, as I've said elsewhere, the PS2 could 'float' momentarily on good, dry surfaces at high speed, which meant, in reality, that they kept me below 150.
As for the new, 2016 P Zero ... well, they score better than Goodyear Asymmetric 3 in some reviews, but worse in others and there's always the echo of 'Bad in the rain' from the past. So, I'm going to have to suck 'em & see.
(37 & 45psi are the advised pressures on the 35is at an ambient air temperature of 20 degrees C. So, in winter, I'll experiment with lower, but not much.)
Whatever, they're not expensive and, if they're poor, I'll change 'em. I'm not proud.
. But I'm not yet ready to blame the tyres as they are summer tyres that I am pushing on cold wet roads. My Touring has no problems on the same roads as it has decent winter tyres on now, and wears Goodyear Asymetrics in the summer. When some warm weather comes I will judge the P-Zeros when it is a fair assessment.
45psi is high 