Tyre choices for the B6

[marv]

try camskill.co.uk for the Vreds. That's where I got mine from a year or so ago for ~£90 a corner. Now £115 inc VAT

[aligod78]

try camskill.co.uk for the Vreds. That's where I got mine from a year or so ago for ~£90 a corner. Now £115 inc VAT

Cheers. ClickOnTyres are the same price, who I've used before.

[BlingBling]

Bought a set of Sessantas and after approx 1K I am impressed with the grip levels, on par with previous GY Assy F1's. Wet grip is good with braking equally impressive. The biggest downside is the noise. These are probably the noisiest tyres I've fitted. It just means I have to use more revs to drown it out

[goose]

In the last year and a half I've had 3x pairs of GY Assy F1's, but at £280 a pair it was getting a bit much.. so opted for a pair of Toyo T1 Sports in Feb (which Audi now fit on the RS3 and S5 from new) and they are great, and only £220 a pair, fitted.

Am now due another pair, so will go the same again me'thinks.. although having just written this out now it's just dawned on me that when i put the new ones on at the end of the month, that will be 5x pairs (or 10 tyres) in 31k "hard-driven" miles.. or 6.2k miles per per, or 3.1k miles per tyre

goose

[aligod78]

In the last year and a half I've had 3x pairs of GY Assy F1's, but at £280 a pair it was getting a bit much.. so opted for a pair of Toyo T1 Sports in Feb (which Audi now fit on the RS3 and S5 from new) and they are great, and only £220 a pair, fitted.

Am now due another pair, so will go the same again me'thinks.. although having just written this out now it's just dawned on me that when i put the new ones on at the end of the month, that will be 5x pairs (or 10 tyres) in 31k "hard-driven" miles.. or 6.2k miles per per, or 3.1k miles per tyre

goose

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[BlingBling]

In the last year and a half I've had 3x pairs of GY Assy F1's, but at £280 a pair it was getting a bit much.. so opted for a pair of Toyo T1 Sports in Feb (which Audi now fit on the RS3 and S5 from new) and they are great, and only £220 a pair, fitted.

Am now due another pair, so will go the same again me'thinks.. although having just written this out now it's just dawned on me that when i put the new ones on at the end of the month, that will be 5x pairs (or 10 tyres) in 31k "hard-driven" miles.. or 6.2k miles per per, or 3.1k miles per tyre

goose

How hard are you driving the damn thing? TBH if your chewing tyres that quickly get a set of Sessantas. They are half the price of Assy's and IMO just about on par in terms of performance.

[goose]

In the last year and a half I've had 3x pairs of GY Assy F1's, but at £280 a pair it was getting a bit much.. so opted for a pair of Toyo T1 Sports in Feb (which Audi now fit on the RS3 and S5 from new) and they are great, and only £220 a pair, fitted.

Am now due another pair, so will go the same again me'thinks.. although having just written this out now it's just dawned on me that when i put the new ones on at the end of the month, that will be 5x pairs (or 10 tyres) in 31k "hard-driven" miles.. or 6.2k miles per per, or 3.1k miles per tyre

goose

How hard are you driving the damn thing? TBH if your chewing tyres that quickly get a set of Sessantas. They are half the price of Assy's and IMO just about on par in terms of performance.

Im not going to lie, i do drive it pretty hard.. but in my defense, the x4 it had on it when i bought it needed replacing within a few months so i cant really take credit for trashing them.

add to that a few sessions at the Castle Combe VAG day last summer, and i almost feel borderline vindicated

i guess i need to either stop driving like Seb Loeb or set the thing up properly (Hothkiss ARB's and KWs) to stop scrubbing the outher edges bald

goose

[nihc]

Just fitted 4 Vredestein's before my 1400 mile drive to Le Mans and they have performed very well.
We didn't notice any road noise - in fact a passenger commented on how quiet they are, so I don't know why a previous poster thought they where noisey.
Grip levels are good in the wet and dry.
I previously fitted 3 lots of Pilot Sport 2's, but will be fitting these Vred's again at the next tyre change.

I bought them from Camskill and they arrived the next day:

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m61b0s322p124 ... _95Y_XL_TL_

[BlingBling]

so I don't know why a previous poster thought they where noisey.

Probably because they are. Much noisier than the Assy 2's they replaced. I am very happy with the tyre. The added noise is a small price to pay compared to the more expensive and not necessarily better alternatives.

[1781cc]

Vredestens all the way, tried loads when I had my S4 and they were the best in all weathers... The slide a little for the first 300 miles or so while they bed in but after that, huge grip in all weathers (including snow and torrential rain)

Very, very good tyres

[xyber]

Yep I'm on my second set of Vreds now.

[linkman72]

I ran Vredensteins on a previous motor, grippy as hell and quiet but I found they didnt last aslong as other makes Ive used. Suppose the trade off for grip ?

[linkman72]

Is it this noise debate could be more bushes/suspension related and less tyre related ?

I dont expect 235 width tyres to be silent by any means and if anything I was considering going for wider replacements ( I looked at 265/35's but that would need some skilled arch pulling !! )

[chunky79]

Vreds performance differ from each model car. They are meant to be shocking on the rs6 with modified suspension. Suprised some think they are as good as assym or super sport though.

[Shoppinit]

^^What chunky said.

PS2 work very well on the B6.