Pirelli P-Zero on RS6

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Re: Pirelli P-Zero on RS6

Post by RS2 » Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:11 am

You can get anything sideways on any tyres if you try hard enough.

My 6 has Michelins which were fitted just before I bought the car so plenty of tread and I've had it sideways in the dry. Not that hard to do, you just need to be on your own, no traffic around and be on it!!

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Re: Pirelli P-Zero on RS6

Post by Daveperc » Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:17 am

Hi WAFFY

As others have said, if you are happy with P Zero's then why not get then.

However as someone who has run Goodyears, Mich's, Vreds, a couple of Conti's and the P Zero's back to back over the past few years I'm afraid the P Zero's and Conti's would be joint bottom of my list when replacing for all the reasons I have posted.

I certainly don't spend much time sideways , though I will happily push towards the limits when safe to do so. The problem I have is that the limits are a lot lower on the P Zero and Conti than the others. And of course whilst sometimes I arrive at the limit on purpose, at other times it is because someone else does the unexpected! Otherwise we'd all be happily driving around on well worn Ling Longs!!

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Re: Pirelli P-Zero on RS6

Post by Mr Footlong » Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:18 am

I drive like an asshat where conditions safely allow it, I don't deny it and don't see myself ever changing. My Grenadian mother drove me around taking no prisoners throughout my childhood over there and here, all my Grenadian family drive it like they stole it (my cousins scare the crap out of me thrashing SUVs on blind mountain roads like they are WRC cars, complete with goats/cows/random drunks etc in the road...), I think it is just in our genes. All West Indians either drive "real fass" or "real slow".

I know where my car can/cannot fit, I (like to think that I) know what I can do without endangering others (whether they have any clue about it or not), just one of those things. Not saying my driving style is the right way at all, it is just my way and will continue to be so for the foreseeable.

Anyway, back to tyres, Waffy, if you know them, like them are are used to/happy with their limits then that is fine. If I had a known quantity for tyres that I had used for years and they did exactly what I needed then I wouldn't change either.
Current:

23' C8 RS6 Vorsprung - 23' RS E-Tron GT Carbon Vorsprung

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"Brutus"- C5 RS6 Avant - MRC stage 2 - Milltek non-res + 100 cell cats - Wagner ICs - PSS9 - H&R ARBs - OZ Superturismo LM - C6 Custom brakes - HD RNS-E - Various other bits - 555PS/832Nm
"Taz"- C7 RS6 - MRC stage 2 745PS/1095Nm
12' Cayenne Turbo, B7 RS4, S3, Cupra R, XJR, EVO VII, STI8,5,2&WRX, 106 GTI&XSI, other crap.

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