Sylvester Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Recently changed from Bridgestones to Toyo T1-Rs. Drove back from the fitters ( 50 miles... ) and was impressed with the Toyos - quieter, more feeling from steering, grip seemed up. Should be said I was not doing much / any near limit driving though. Finally got the chance to check the tyre pressure last night to find that the fitters ( Micheldever Winchester you are named and shamed ) had only put in 27 psi into each tyre! Upped them to the 35 as per handbook and drove again last night. Obviously harder ride, lot of steering feeling lost, less grip. Car just felt a little skittish. Again I am not talking track driving here. Fairly confident the pressures are correct as I have an expensive pressure guage. So, apart from my embarassment at not being able to tell tyres were so far under inflated when driving it ( which I explain to myself by saying that they were different tyres so I did not have much to compare against... ) and apart from my anger at fitters for not bothering to look up the right pressure ( or look in the door panel or even, god forbid, asking the owner! ) my question is... Is it correct that every tyre should have the same pressure in order to work at its best ? I.E. could it be that Toyos will work best at (say) 32 psi whereas the Bridgestones need 35 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 surely lower PSIs will give you more grip but on my car the toyos are still at 35psi. Tyres are new, give them a few more hundred miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam's Z Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Once tyres are warm pressure will increase 33-34psi imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 i would agree with the car feeling skittish on toyo tr-1's , just drove back from work and had to do some heavy braking the car was squimming (SP) all over the road also on the motorway,at speed, while changing lanes it seems to tram line loads from where the tarmac as been worn away, making me feel a little nervous of really pushing it hope they do wear in very quickly, have checked the pressures and they are 34-35psi can anybody else suggest what might be wrong ? the bridgstones seemed much better ,maybe it's coz of the stronger side walls or summit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 if anyone else as any similar problems no matter the make of tyres can you please here if thats ok with you, Sylvester ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 dont want to sound thick but have they put the tyres on the right way round. max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest prescience Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 i would agree with the car feeling skittish on toyo tr-1's , just drove back from work and had to do some heavy braking the car was squimming (SP) all over the road also on the motorway,at speed, while changing lanes it seems to tram line loads from where the tarmac as been worn away, making me feel a little nervous of really pushing it hope they do wear in very quickly, have checked the pressures and they are 34-35psi can anybody else suggest what might be wrong ? The Toyo's will do that for 20-50 miles and then it will disappear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 dont want to sound thick but have they put the tyres on the right way round.max. yeah first thing i checked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 i would agree with the car feeling skittish on toyo tr-1's , just drove back from work and had to do some heavy braking the car was squimming (SP) all over the road also on the motorway,at speed, while changing lanes it seems to tram line loads from where the tarmac as been worn away, making me feel a little nervous of really pushing it hope they do wear in very quickly, have checked the pressures and they are 34-35psi can anybody else suggest what might be wrong ? The Toyo's will do that for 20-50 miles and then it will disappear fingers crossed they will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 My Falkens felt spot on from pretty much straight away - better than the worn Bridgestones I took off, for sure! Grip seems better in every condition too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylvester Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 if anyone else as any similar problems no matter the make of tyres can you please here if thats ok with you, Sylvester ? As long as you meant 'if anyone else Has any similar problems no matter the make of tyres can you please POST here if thats ok with you, Sylvester? then yeah sure And yep same here, first thing I checked ( even before leaving the fitters ) was that the tyres were on the right way round... I learnt that from the experience of others on the forum! Through a variety of reasons I have hardly driven the Zed recently ( ) so still waiting to get those couple of hundred miles under the belt. Here's hoping they settle down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 oops forgot the POST bit gonna put quite a few miles on the z this weekend so hopefully i'll see a improvement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 done just under 300 miles over the weekend and i think there's no improvement it was wet when driving back home, was doing about 50-55mph on a bend, happened to get both drivers side wheels on to the white lines, the traction control light came on at least twice making me jump, a bit later on again on a bend i touched the brakes, the abs kicked in as the pedal juddered a couple of times (does a abs light come on the dash too, didn't notice any). all the above makes me think that i've got the wrong size tires on and it's confusing the ecu or wotever not happy driving the car at the mo as i don't feel safe driving it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 done just under 300 miles over the weekend and i think there's no improvement it was wet when driving back home, was doing about 50-55mph on a bend, happened to get both drivers side wheels on to the white lines, the traction control light came on at least twice making me jump, a bit later on again on a bend i touched the brakes, the abs kicked in as the pedal juddered a couple of times (does a abs light come on the dash too, didn't notice any). all the above makes me think that i've got the wrong size tires on and it's confusing the ecu or wotever not happy driving the car at the mo as i don't feel safe driving it What sizes have you got on?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 weird symptoms Lyndon, give us all the tyre details will ya maybe incorrectly balanced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 here a couple of pictures of the tyres, have been out for a drive but the tyres still look a little big, even the fitter mentioned it when they were put on. i've inverted one picture so u can see the sizes better, b4 someone points it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 here a couple of pictures of the tyres, have been out for a drive but the tyres still look a little big, even the fitter mentioned it when they were put on. i've inverted one picture so u can see the sizes better, b4 someone points it out Thats the back size , what size have you got on front set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 he's still got stones.. could well be due to mix n match imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 he's still got stones.. could well be due to mix n match imo Ohhhhh thats the problem then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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