Author Topic: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! Update 22/05/2012 (Read 72659 times)

stealthwolf · « **Reply #270 on:** April 27, 2012, 02:39:01 pm »

He's not stuck them on yet. He's obviously too busy posting pics and plying passersby with maoams rather than get on with his work!

Andy · « **Reply #271 on:** April 27, 2012, 09:24:26 pm »

i think pirelli have let the quality drop over the last few years as they go out of shape to easy on a different varient of cars--

Greeners · « **Reply #272 on:** April 28, 2012, 10:53:10 am »

As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

rich83 · « **Reply #273 on:** April 28, 2012, 10:54:52 am »

Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 10:53:10 am

As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

Greeners · « **Reply #274 on:** April 28, 2012, 10:56:46 am »

Quote from: richwig83 on April 28, 2012, 10:54:52 am

Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 10:53:10 am
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

They call themselves........ Efficient Grip!!

rich83 · « **Reply #275 on:** April 28, 2012, 10:58:18 am »

Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 10:56:46 am

Quote from: richwig83 on April 28, 2012, 10:54:52 am
Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 10:53:10 am
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

They call themselves........ Efficient Grip!!

aka no grip?

Greeners · « **Reply #276 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:00:44 am »

Quote from: richwig83 on April 28, 2012, 10:58:18 am

Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 10:56:46 am
Quote from: richwig83 on April 28, 2012, 10:54:52 am
Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 10:53:10 am
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

They call themselves........ Efficient Grip!!

aka no grip?

I think they are more of an 'eco' tyre than one designed to reign in 300+ bhp!!

rich83 · « **Reply #277 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:04:53 am »

Not many road tyres can contain 300bhp to the front wheels...

Greeners · « **Reply #278 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:10:58 am »

Quote from: richwig83 on April 28, 2012, 11:04:53 am

Not many road tyres can contain 300bhp to the front wheels...

True, but would still be nice to be able to use the throttle pedal slightly more than 5%!

stealthwolf · « **Reply #279 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:18:36 am »

Did you manage to get the other car sorted in time?

rich83 · « **Reply #280 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:19:32 am »

Quote from: Greeners on April 28, 2012, 11:10:58 am

Quote from: richwig83 on April 28, 2012, 11:04:53 am
Not many road tyres can contain 300bhp to the front wheels...

True, but would still be nice to be able to use the throttle pedal slightly more than 5%!

Yeah that might be a good start

Greeners · « **Reply #281 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:44:06 am »

Quote from: stealthwolf on April 28, 2012, 11:18:36 am

Did you manage to get the other car sorted in time?

Just about, being collected today and it looks awesome!!

stealthwolf · « **Reply #282 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:54:32 am »

I forgot to give you the tyre gel to try out. Would have noticed any sling off on a white car!

Greeners · « **Reply #283 on:** April 28, 2012, 12:24:55 pm »

Quote from: stealthwolf on April 28, 2012, 11:54:32 am

I forgot to give you the tyre gel to try out. Would have noticed any sling off on a white car!

Probably best to try it out on mine!

Greeners · « **Reply #284 on:** May 18, 2012, 09:41:57 pm »

So finally got round to getting the wheels refurbed and the new boots fitted!

Decided on a 'Brilliant Silver' as I wanted to keep it looking as OEM as possible. As you can probably see from the pics the inner Barrell had been painted in a dark anthracite colour to hopefully give the design of the wheel more of a 3D look.

While the wheels were away I thought I'd clean the brakes and calipers up a bit until I can afford some S3 upgrades!

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