New Tyres

Last week I went to get the rego check on my car and was knocked back because the state of my tyres. I wasn't surprised about this at all. My old tyres were Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3, and they had been on the car for a little over 2 years and about 45,000 kms. Also in this time they had done a number of track days at Wakefield Park, Goulburn. The track days don't really do your tyres any favours. I have considered getting a 2nd set of rims and some track tyres so I'm not chewing up my good road tyres, but I'm not sure that I could justify the extra cost and storage space (in my parents garage), for something that I would only use maybe 2-3 times a year.

Anyway, I now have a set of Dunlop Direzza DZ101 tyres on the car. In the week and a bit that I have been driving on these tyres, I have decided that I am pretty impressed with them. They offer very good grip in both wet and dry. I found that a little provoking on a wet road and they didn't break traction. They don't seem very noisy either. The only problem i did find was a vibration in the car when travelling at 110 km/h. I am taking the car back to the tyre place to get the wheel re-balanced tomorrow to sort this problem out. Hopefully all will be good after that :-)