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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #45 on: May 18, 2010, 08:42:07 am »
i have vredesteins on the front toyo T1Rs on the rear and have done for bout 5000miles including alot of laps on the ring and on woodbridge airfield track day.  no |ESP issues at all

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2010, 06:30:23 pm »
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@ Aparoon and Sy:

Thanks for the tyre mix info - Aparoon has ESP switched off so, of course, it won't kick in (unless extreme circumstances). How about you, Sy, ESP on or off on the road?


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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2010, 09:08:07 pm »
depends RR. if im just driving around  i just keep it on, its only when im making 'progress' that i take it off.  i dont use ESP on track days though, although i did at the ring, just as a precaution, and had no noticable esp interference apart from a bit of traction control exiting corners

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2010, 09:24:40 pm »
^^^^
I've switched ESP from On to Off while driving (Nordschleife to GP circuit) but not yet tried returning to On in the same driving session. I guess it works to toggle between On and Off.


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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #49 on: May 19, 2010, 07:05:38 pm »
Just had a pair fitted on the rear of my Ed30 due to a nail in the old exaltos.
They certainly look the part and the water channels are huge.

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #50 on: August 11, 2010, 04:51:42 pm »
i have had these on a 'roc as well as PS2...
the PS3 are notably better than PS2 in the wet, not much in it in the dry tbh
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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #51 on: August 29, 2010, 09:43:49 am »
I'm getting 2 of these on the front axle leave ing two gyf1s on the rear....I'm fed up with the f1's seeming eagerness to side wall bulge.  I think I have replaced 3 from the front in the past 2 years, hence why I am leaving the f1's on the rear......I just don't trust them not to go within a short time. I avoid potholes with an obsessive passion, so I am not sure that this damage was ever caused by pothole damage. In 2 years I haven't had to replace any from the rear......

Anyhoo, back on topic....ps3's will be fitted today I'm buying 2 today from Costco at £140 a corner. Then hopefully the other two when the f1s give up on the rear.  :star:

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #52 on: August 30, 2010, 01:25:27 pm »
Costco refused to put the new ones on the front....it's policy apparently and they showed me a video of what can happen if they don't  :jumping: so for now I've got me ps3's on the rear axle and two gy f1's on the front with bags of tread....there is something different with the car I can notice it but not sure that I have the words/ experience to describe it. It is quieter I think and more assured.

Hopefully the f1's on the front won't sidde wall bulge for a while but if they do i have a good replacement in my garage ready to go.  Costs =£282.


Sooo theres me tootling back to work, post Costco....BONG! yes youve guessed it tyre sensor....

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #53 on: August 30, 2010, 11:01:49 pm »
What's stopping you from jacking up the car and swapping them round?

The GTI isn't just a machine. It's very much a living, breathing thing.

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #54 on: August 31, 2010, 11:16:45 am »
^^^Nothing really.... may do so at the weekend.

I think that the approach from Costco is the preferred one (having seen that video)...however I think that more relates to tyres that are heavily worn, the theory is that if you all of a sudden have more grip on the front than the rear...your car handles differently to the way you'd expect and the back end can tail out...(or something).

In my case my rears have loads of tread on, so I dont think that this is any danger.

Having inflated all round now to 36, I am delighted to report that the ps3's seem to be providing a more assured ride (that said, how much it is to do with the newer assymetrics now on the front, I don't know).....

Hopefully the mich's will last a little bit longer than the GY's.....

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #55 on: September 01, 2010, 03:31:41 pm »

Have had these on the fronts for about 3 weeks now and can say these tyres are a vast improvement over previous. They were Dunlop Sport Maxx so not that hard to achieve!


....So does that mean you have the PS3's on the front and Sport Maxx TT's on the rear?

It is likely the Dunflops were the original Sport Maxx (directionals) - and not the Sport Maxx TT.
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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #56 on: September 02, 2010, 06:08:31 pm »
^^^^
I'm currently running Dunlop Sport Maxx TT on the rear axle and GY F1 Asymmetrics on the front with no problems and I've just this afternoon driven about 100 miles of twisty B-roads (actually A-roads but hardly so) at high speeds including taking off over a hump.


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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #57 on: October 26, 2010, 06:24:17 pm »
4 new 225/40/18 PS3's fitted today so will see how it goes.
they replace 2 front PS2's and 2 rear Exaltos.

PS2's had done 19k miles (a record for me the last set did just 13k), exaltos have been on from new (so 44500 miles  :surprised: and still had 3mm tread (Ive kept them))

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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #58 on: December 17, 2010, 11:49:59 am »
have to say that i have noticed mine have worn really quickly. fronts are just about gone after 5k. has anyone noticed how bad these are in the cold as well? obviously i know they are summer tyres but of all the tyres ive used before these feel the most dangerous on cold roads. going round roundabouts the back end steps out more and the front scrabbles even at low speeds! they were brilliand in the summer but now im not so sure over all.

for the record i did over 20k with my pzero neros and they were good in cold weather and warm. not as good in the summer but maybe a better overall tyre..
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Re: Michelin Pilot Sport 3
« Reply #59 on: December 17, 2010, 03:24:37 pm »
suprised they have worn so much.  the treadware rating is alot higher than most other performance tyres.  Are they evenly worn?