Spent yesterday hooning around Silverstone and managed to totally destroy the tyres in the process. The rears are almost as bad at the fronts!
Bought them off camskill for about £30 quid each and changed all four to 195/50 R15 ( the P6000's that were on there when I bought the car were like driving on ice at the previous wet track day). Ran them in for about 200 miles on various roads and had them at 36 psi.
Had amazing grip but noticed after the first few sessions that the tread was almost teering off. After lunch went back out for a few more sessions and although grip didn't seem to be effected I started to get vibration through the steering. By the end of the day ( 120 miles completed on track) they were just about ok to drive back home. The wear is even but where its come away/torn it looks almost down to the cord.
I was expecting about 3 track days worth of use out of these......any thoughts or advice.
Thanks

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Don't stay out too long 'cause you'll overheat them, hence the tread tear, although at that pressure it could equally we be cold tear if you're not a smooth driver.

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On the case its just the cost of buying them. Used one's are rare and new they are over £400

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I would have thought 36 psi was too high cos the pressure will increase with the temp of the tire.

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Never had a problem with the T1-R's before but then I suppose never given them so much abuse. Fair point though, suppose you get what you pay for

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Firstly fill them with nitrogen about a £1 per wheel, this then does not heat up like air, run them around 28psi, you then get 10000 miles out of t1r like i have, mine have done track days, loads of drag racing runs aswell and still a bit of tread left on them.

Just my opinion

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They need them worn down a far bit to stop the tread from folding over and over heating, the Saloon lads that used to run then at Combe had them buffed to about 4mm

my brother had his Michelin energy's filler with Nitrogen at Costco when he had a set of 4 fitted, o/s R is probably 100% standard air now as the wheel is corroded

I didn't notice anything bar the fact that the tyres weren't 5 year old chenshang+10 year old Michelin mix!

I'd give PE2's a go, you can get them at about £52 each, but as mentioned above, don't go on track for too long, and don't go on track with fresh 8mm treaded tyres as the blocks will move around and overheat.

Also could try Kumho's or Falkens.

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I had a discussion with the bloke at Protyre about price matching the likes of Camskill. He informed me that they are the UK distributor of Toyo's so shouldn't be that cheap.

I would be questioning the source of the tyres as standards vary across Europe.

May all be bullshit to not price match but I recall stories of foreign tyres (Romanian iirc) flooding UK from a while back.

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You think He still gave me a discount which after including the fitting charge per tyre wasn't actualy much difference. I roll on 55's not the cheap shit 50's

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