Goodyear Eagle F1s and laser alignment stuff...

[BenH]

New tyres for me today, yippee, £££.

Due to uneven trackday tyre wear, the car had started pulling left very slightly, and I had swapped the fronts to the rears to even out general wear, and this made it pull a bit more.

I had it laser aligned* last week, and it was still pulling a tad. Not much, but annoying on the motorway, and the steering wheel was always going towards the right by about 10 degrees, most frustrating to my obsessive self.

Anyway, today I discovered a spike stuck in one of the more worn ones which was plugging a small hole. I thought 'sod it', and got them all replaced with Goodyear Eagle F1s (only size in stock to fit, was after Pirellis really, never mind) and now it tracks nice and straight, and the steering wheel is straight again. Happy boy. Although £360 lighter.

Does anyone have any experience of the Goodyears please? I have read that they don't wear very well. It's all through the business anyway, so I'm not too bothered about this, as long as it's not a ridiculous wear rate!

Cheers!

* The laser alignment has now shown twice that the rear beam axle is very slightly out, although nothing can be done about it. The garage reckoned slack manufacturer tolerances. I reckon poor fitting of the laser kit! The front end is spot on though.

[Dom]

I had F1's on mine, nothing really to compare them against but they never gave me any grief and wear rate wasn't as bad as it's made out to be. A good performer in the dry and wet so yeah, was happy with them

[BenH]

Good man, that's the kind of answer I was hoping for. Please accept a virtual pint.:):):):):)

I've been reading some online reviews, and apparently some of the Goodyear Eagle F1's (GS-D3 in this case) are made in China or Thailand, and have been problematic for people due to different materials being used in their construction, and have developed bulges and are very noisy. (that's the tyres, not the people. Although you never know.)

The German made ones are apparently as they should be. Mine are made in Germany, phew. (Just been crawling about outside with the torch, got funny looks from passers-by...):):)

[Dom]

think it all turned out turned out as if they're e marked (which they should be I guess), you're fine?

[soberphil]

I'm running Goodyear F1's all round as they're the nearest tread pattern I could find to the discontinued Dunlop SP9000 as recomended by Rover.

I've had no probs so far (apart from a nail going through one the other day but can't really blame the tyre for that!).

Recently replaced the rears and was surprised what a difference having fresh rubber on the back has made to the handling.