What's made you smile today?
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One step away from a hedge at 200+mph
I think you’ve missed the point of what car they are on
I didn't even know you could get landfill tyres rated to 240mph...
To be fair 30 mph is pushing it..
Of course it likely goes on and off a trailer and for that they are appropriate
To be fair 30 mph is pushing it..
Of course it likely goes on and off a trailer and for that they are appropriate
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The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
I like the way they put the name in such big letters. Have pride my son!
Having said this I put two on our old Seat as I thought my daughter was junking it and they were available and cheap after a puncture wrecked her Bridgestones. They have proved fine, no bad behaviour or alarms, just a really astonishing wear rate. Maybe its the rubber wearing off that is responsible for the comments. Little balls form under the tread as you corner. Your own marbles? I wouldnt buy them again however.... Just adds to my view that you get what you pay for and that premium tyres are the best value if you do a few miles.
Talking of odd tyres I looked at a Panda the other day and someone had put an Avon on one side at the front. What a weird tread pattern. I would sooner have Land fills than Avons!
Having said this I put two on our old Seat as I thought my daughter was junking it and they were available and cheap after a puncture wrecked her Bridgestones. They have proved fine, no bad behaviour or alarms, just a really astonishing wear rate. Maybe its the rubber wearing off that is responsible for the comments. Little balls form under the tread as you corner. Your own marbles? I wouldnt buy them again however.... Just adds to my view that you get what you pay for and that premium tyres are the best value if you do a few miles.
Talking of odd tyres I looked at a Panda the other day and someone had put an Avon on one side at the front. What a weird tread pattern. I would sooner have Land fills than Avons!
I suspect this is a garage queen that rarely goes anywhere and it doesn’t make sense to fit £20k tires for them to only go off and crack in between the times the car is actually drivenI didn't even know you could get landfill tyres rated to 240mph...
To be fair 30 mph is pushing it..
Of course it likely goes on and off a trailer and for that they are appropriate
I'd bet that one tyre cost more than the 4 on mine despite being a Land sail.
Smile today, rest of the weekend may be forecast to be crap..however fun was had today.
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Definitely a dry weather only tread pattern? Looks like a track day tire but Landsail? Actually I have heard of them because they are a budget line at a local independent. Wouldn't take the risk myself though. Mind you, Fuzz Townshend is their official ambassador,so? under their brand name is written: "Move in Trusted Circles" anyone see a deeper meaning in that?
Superb kite!
I agree re Landsail tyres and never use them.
Anything that wears out so quickly and yet can't stick to the road has to be crap in my eyes.
They reminded me of 1970s crossply remoulds with similar characteristics.
Anything that wears out so quickly and yet can't stick to the road has to be crap in my eyes.
They reminded me of 1970s crossply remoulds with similar characteristics.
If was to say I'd not want them for free that might sound like hyperbole..
Except at one point a garage took a matching set of admittedly worn Toyos but serviceable off a car I was buying and put 2 Landsail LS388s on it.
Handing balance was awful, understeer in the wet and oversteer in the dry. Also noisy...
I got rid after going sideways in the dry at 35mph on a clean road, they still had 7mm on them. Swapped on to a set of Goodyear efficient grips all round and strangely enough the car was all of a sudden not a death trap and a lot quieter.
The McLaren ones are probably better on the basis it's a lot easier to make a tyre that does one thing i.e. dry weather performance than an all season that needs to be good at all things.
Hardly any tread and wear characteristics like the tyres on Concorde but that won't matter given it's unlikely to go out in the rain or do 20k a year.
Except at one point a garage took a matching set of admittedly worn Toyos but serviceable off a car I was buying and put 2 Landsail LS388s on it.
Handing balance was awful, understeer in the wet and oversteer in the dry. Also noisy...
I got rid after going sideways in the dry at 35mph on a clean road, they still had 7mm on them. Swapped on to a set of Goodyear efficient grips all round and strangely enough the car was all of a sudden not a death trap and a lot quieter.
The McLaren ones are probably better on the basis it's a lot easier to make a tyre that does one thing i.e. dry weather performance than an all season that needs to be good at all things.
Hardly any tread and wear characteristics like the tyres on Concorde but that won't matter given it's unlikely to go out in the rain or do 20k a year.
To me the only way they were an improvement on 1970s brand new Moskvich tyres was , they were not eccentric as well!!!
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Daffo may be gone from the nest of the Panda Nut but Im happy now. I saw him charging round Monaco today theyve altered the bodywork a bit and added some wings, but the colour is definitely the same. Nice to know he went to a good home.
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Probably get around some of the hairpin turns better as well.
I did once drive around there in a Mk3 Ford Cortina in 1977/8 one Christmas, so less high speed traffic than this weekend, four of us including one of my sisters who wanted to pick some of the oranges she saw growing at the side of the carriageway until I pointed out the Police there, were carrying machine guns.
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I think they are oem tires on some of china’s finest car brands such as MG
Not sure how safe I would feel driving a two tonne EV with them on in the wet.
In fairness most EVs are on terrible tyres.
Not because they are cheap tyres, far from it but engineering for rolling resistance in tyres removes all other performance.
So in the elk test the VW ID3 achieves 71 km/h..this is by no means the lowest value an EV achieves the new Mégane is mid 60s.
For context the well known instrument of precision handling and aerodynamics that is the Citroën C3 Aircross fitted with all season tyres achieved 76km/h.
Not because they are cheap tyres, far from it but engineering for rolling resistance in tyres removes all other performance.
So in the elk test the VW ID3 achieves 71 km/h..this is by no means the lowest value an EV achieves the new Mégane is mid 60s.
For context the well known instrument of precision handling and aerodynamics that is the Citroën C3 Aircross fitted with all season tyres achieved 76km/h.
A hedgehog in the garden this evening, cleaning up the seeds under the bird feeder. Cat not bothered.
Fixed the rear screenwash on the Doblo.
It was 6 years old when I bought it last year. View out the back is minimal, as there's a ramp obscuring most of the window. Do get to see the roofs of most following vehicles. Had owned it 9 months before I even tried the rear screenwash, motor hummed, no wash. Haven't used again, in case it is leaking inside somewhere, but was on the list of 'things to do'.
So, today, lift bonnet, peer into the gloom. Bottle is under the wing, so lift it a little, off with the wheel and arch liner. I thought, start at the bottle and work back.
There's the pump, with two pipes, one for the front, which works, and the other pipe, travels vertically up the side of the bottle, to... an open end. A little above, there's the end of another pipe, with a connector, floating. But it won't reach to join together. From above, re-routed the pipe to run below the wiring loom, now plenty to connect easily. Rear wash now working as designed.
I'm thinking this was never connected. Original pre-delivery inspection missed it, and previous owner never bothered to complain. Specialist dealer who sold it to me, either never checked it, or didn't try to fix, fearing a need to dismantle the interior. Easy fix, happy days.
It was 6 years old when I bought it last year. View out the back is minimal, as there's a ramp obscuring most of the window. Do get to see the roofs of most following vehicles. Had owned it 9 months before I even tried the rear screenwash, motor hummed, no wash. Haven't used again, in case it is leaking inside somewhere, but was on the list of 'things to do'.
So, today, lift bonnet, peer into the gloom. Bottle is under the wing, so lift it a little, off with the wheel and arch liner. I thought, start at the bottle and work back.
There's the pump, with two pipes, one for the front, which works, and the other pipe, travels vertically up the side of the bottle, to... an open end. A little above, there's the end of another pipe, with a connector, floating. But it won't reach to join together. From above, re-routed the pipe to run below the wiring loom, now plenty to connect easily. Rear wash now working as designed.
I'm thinking this was never connected. Original pre-delivery inspection missed it, and previous owner never bothered to complain. Specialist dealer who sold it to me, either never checked it, or didn't try to fix, fearing a need to dismantle the interior. Easy fix, happy days.
