Tyre Advice

Hi,

I had my Mk1 GL MOT for the first time in 3 years on saturday and it failed due to the two front tyres being excessively worn on the inside, so i need to get some new tyres

The ones currently on all wheels are bridgestone potenza RE040 165/50 R15, and looking now they either dont sell them anymore or are being charged at silly amounts.

So can anyone reccomend any tyres?.

(Wheels are standard G60 steels)

Cheers in advance.

I would get tyres but then also get it tracked… as your alignment is off (y'all say tracking over there.).

165 tyres are to thin for a 6 inch wide wheel, 195/45  R15 or 195/50 R15 seems to be the size for G60 wheels.

https://www.clubgti.com/forums/index.php?threads/g60-steel-tyre-size.200304/

Briano1234 said

I would get tyres but then also get it tracked… as your alignment is off (y'all say tracking over there.).

Yes that's the plan haha, it had the same issue when I first got it and then I changed the wheels!  Definitely need to

mark1gls said

165 tyres are to thin for a 6 inch wide wheel, 195/45  R15 or 195/50 R15 seems to be the size for G60 wheels.

https://www.clubgti.com/forums/index.php?threads/g60-steel-tyre-size.200304/

Cheers!!

I did wonder if this was the case, they don't seem to be stretched at all to me but might be an idea to swap all 4 out then! 

That's a serious tyre for a mk1 golf unless you are running a serious engine. That was the stock tyre on the Lotus Elise, grippy! . I've gone with Toyo proxies CF2 on my std GTi. They seemed a fair price and have decent reviews for an all round tyre. Just my personal opinion but I'd steer clear of anything suggesting 'economy' I find they have minimal grip!

paceman said

That's a serious tyre for a mk1 golf unless you are running a serious engine. That was the stock tyre on the Lotus Elise, grippy! . I've gone with Toyo proxies CF2 on my std GTi. They seemed a fair price and have decent reviews for an all round tyre. Just my personal opinion but I'd steer clear of anything suggesting 'economy' I find they have minimal grip!

 Haha, I had no idea honestly! I brought the wheels with the tyres on and just left them on as shown.