Tyres (yet again )

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stephendutton1963

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Hi am new to the forum so be gentle,
did any of you guys who changed to non run flats alter the suspension settings if so what did you do if not how does the car feel. Mine is a 2003 2.5 any help or advice greatly appreciated oh and does your insurer need to know. Cheers Steve
 
Hopefully the below will help:

The majority will not have changed suspension
The car has worse turn-in on non-runflats
The car has better ride on non-runflats
I would strongly advise letting your insurer know - I did and there was no cost
 
I only changed mine yesterday, so my opinion doesn't count yet... I need to change my pressures and get more miles on them. Everyone on here loves them, but I'm not happy with the worst turn-in. By that I mean when you turn in to a corner, the runflats would turn as if the car was on a pin. The Falkens (and any other non-runflat will be the same) is just too soft, so it 'wallows' in corners. That may improve with better pressures and with more miles on them though. The benefit is that they shouldn't skip in the corners as the RFTs can sometimes do, due to being rock hard.

The ride is better though, which is nicer the other probably 70% of the time you're not taking a corner hard.
 
Thanks for that so the prob could just be pressures or even just new tyres i know my bikes always felt more slippy for first 50 miles or so could you post again in a few weeks would be interesting to hear your thoughts then.
Thanks again Steve
 
I will definitely update you! :) Doing about 300 miles this weekend, so will let you know after that!
 
stephendutton1963, welcome to the forum... :thumbsup:
Changing out the RF's is the best mod you can make... :driving:
 
WLH said:
Changing out the RF's is the best mod you can make... :driving:
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+1 or buying decent runflats.

Ride is demonstrably better. But the car is setup to run on these hard sidewalled tyres. When you take them off the car feels softer, rides better and, less skittish, corners quicker. But you do feel more role turning into corners, not quite so sharp. I'm trying a strut brace and alignment (at a Hunter centre - allignmycar.co.uk) May go for Eibachs / H&R antiroll bars too. I want to get some of that bite back. On balance though there is not contest. My experience is on Eagle F1 Asymmetrics which are amazing! If you can get hold of them.

Don't rule out other makes of RFs though, but they do come at a premium.
 
IK. said:
The car has worse turn-in on non-runflats
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I have to disagree on this one. The tire engineer not being limited to working around the sidewall support of an RF, will be able to develop more advanced sidewall dynamics that can actually improve turn-in (and other parameters). This is certainly the case if one chooses an UHP tire from a Top Tier Brand; Eagle F1, Pilot Sport, Potenza, etc...
 
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