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Which tyres are the best? I've got continental sport contact 3 at the moment but fancy a change, also not sure if I should go for 255 or 275?

I just put a set of 255 Goodyear Eage F1 Assymentrics on mine and they are superb, plenty of rim protection too. Minimal road noise which is a pleasant surprise.

Michelin SuperSports are meant to be awesome too, but they were another £50 per tyre!

I've got four Goodyear Eagle F1 MOs on my Avant - 275/30 - car has Super Sport suspension.

They are (to me) fantastic. Make sure you declare the chnage in size to your insurer though.

Try Event Tyres - they come to you, and are very very well priced. I've used them for three BMWs, a 911 and an R32 before the RS.

I've got four Goodyear Eagle F1 MOs on my Avant - 275/30 - car has Super Sport Suspension.

They are (to me) fantastic. Make sure you declare the chnage in size to your insurer though.

Try Event Tyres - they come to you, and are very very well priced. I've used them for three BMWs, a 911 and an R32 before the RS.

+1 they really are a fantastic tyre

Silas wrote:

I've got four Goodyear Eagle F1 MOs on my Avant - 275/30 - car has Super Sport Suspension.

They are (to me) fantastic. Make sure you declare the chnage in size to your insurer though.

Try Event Tyres - they come to you, and are very very well priced. I've used them for three BMWs, a 911 and an R32 before the RS.

+1 they really are a fantastic tyre

+1. In my opinion, they are currently the best tyres available. I use 255s though. I don't see any advantage to stepping up to 275 and it makes your tyre either too high or too low (depending on whether you go for 30 or 35 profile) by 13 or 14mm! That's about 2% out!

Yeah I know - the 275s were on the car when I bought it from Audi (and all four are brand new) - I'll probably go back to 255s when they need replacing.

They do look nice though!

+1 for the Goodyears - have them on mine

spikeyboy101 wrote:+1 for the Goodyears - have them on mine

+10...I trailed them at the Ring last year and was mega impressed.

I'll be going for Michelin SuperSports... I know F1 Assyms are great, but the SSs are meant to be #1.

i have two pilot supersports sat in the garage and two more getting delivered this week, i bought in batches of two because of the £50 fuel card promotion.
i was going to go with the goodyear asymmetric 2 as i have already had a set of asymmetric 1 on my rs4 and they were a very good tyre and by the reports on here the asymmetric 2 are even better.
however with £100 worth of free fuel on offer from michelin i thought id try the supersports.

i also am running sport contact 3 on mine and dont rate them that highly i have just purchased GY F1 assy 2's which i had on my 3.0 tdi a4(which also had conti 3's on before) The 3.0 tdi was nose heavy but the GY were great. i really liked them , very good in the dry and excellent in the wet , do wear more than the conti's but they are hard as hell , GY were noticably quieter also, i did consider the mich super sports and dunlop sport maxx but decided on thr GY from past experience .

rwilsonrs4 wrote: i did consider the mich super sports and dunlop sport maxx but decided on thr GY from past experience .

I have the Sportmaxx GTs on now (I know, but they came with the wheels) and they are pants compared the the Eagle F1s.

GTFO

I've got vredesteins and am very impressed. Much better than the P-Zeros that were on there before (although they did only have 3.5mm on them) so maybe not a fair comparison.

joesnow wrote:I've got vredesteins and am very impressed. Much better than the P-Zeros that were on there before (although they did only have 3.5mm on them) so maybe not a fair comparison.

I think it's a fair comparison - my RS4 came factory fitted with the P-Zeros and they must be the worst tyre I have ever had on any car (and I've owned cars for just short of 40 years) - no grip in the wet, no confidence in the dry, short life.

The Vreds are certainly not as good as the PS2s or F1s (they have a tendency to squirm and float IMHO), but they are quite a bit less expensive.