New tyres all round - ready for summer
 

Just had four new tyres fitted. Clayed and machine polished the inside of the rim then treated the wheels with Gtechniq C5 wheel armour, then put two layers of wax on top of that, 1 collonite and 1 Sonax pure carnauba wax. Shine like a mirror!

Really loving the Michelin tyre walls!

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...3&d=1585517875

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...4&d=1585517875

Nice! What that set you back? Let’s see the full car shot.+++

So the whole set was £935 fitted.

Here they are fitted to the car. Initial run surprised me with some road noise, seemed louder than the winter tyres but we'll see if that settles a bit.

Here they are fitted to the car.

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1585659215

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1585659215

That's about what it cost me for all the tyres (summers and winters) on all three of my cars :cool:

Lol. Part worn I guess?
Car looks mint by the way. Would you think about putting spacers to poke the wheels out a bit?

Thanks! Yes, considering spacers for sure, not decided on lowering it yet, hence I haven't done it yet.

I remember the days of cheaper tyres 🙂 But then none of them had to be rated for 190mph 😁

Yep. Saved me about £6k in tyre costs over the last 3 years - that's 3 annual holidays for me ;)

Very true - mine may only be rated to 155 mph :eek:

I think my Michelin PS4S's on 20s will be staying in the garage until 2021. :-(
Winter wheels and tyres might as well stay on now and if we do get to Kelso in October they will be fine. :cool:

That's a fair point: I'm not sure I'll both swapping over my PA4s on the S8 either, given the low use it is likely to get. I also considered SORNing it for 6 months when the tax deadline came round yesterday, as handing over a few hundred quid to get next to nowt back seemed a bit pointless...:rolleyes:

I thought about SORN as well, but it's useful having a backup car so it will stay road legal and maybe get the odd trip out when we need to get our shopping.
Conveniently our Volvo had it's annual service and MOT early in March.

I'd literally just switched from 19" winter wheels on my D4 across to 21" summer wheels with brand new Pirelli pzeros a couple of weeks before everything started to grind to a halt.
The rears (Falcon FK510's) were pretty well used and I needed to either switch to the summer wheels or replace them. . . The car looks a bit sportier now but can't really go anywhere much!
Its also had a stage 1 tune which took it to 540bhp and 800Nm which makes for an even more interesting driving experience! :love:

I am sure your tyre suppliers are up north? Too far out for me.

Yep, DM Tyres in Oldham. Exceptional.

Lovely photo & lovely colour Neil ;)