Thread: One new tyre
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Old 08-12-2016, 10:16 PM
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I have Toyo TR -1's on the wagon, long story short I recently had 2 new rears put on whilst the car was being serviced/mot'd.
Pre new tyres the handling was very predictable and in the dry the car always felt very safe given my limited driving ability. But after the rears were done under hard acceleration (yes Granby hard! ) the front end was scary with the steering feeling it had a mind of its own and not to be trusted.

I swapped the fronts with the new rears and this immediately returned the handling to what I was use to. This also convinced me to renew the other 2, something I should have done at the time but was thinking about trying to keep the costs down hence why only changing 2 in the beginning and keeping with the Toyo ' s.

Had I known the eventual outcome of changing all 4 I would of convinced myself to blow the budget and probably have bought Goodyears F1 3's as I think these are an excellent all rounder.
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