New tires wandering

How old are the "used" new tires? Perhaps the position in which they were stored has affected symmetry or contact patch. Maybe switching positions on the car will correct the problem. Also be sure that road camber is not influencing the "wandering" perception.

 

Maybe too much negative camber. Did you have them do a fresh alignment when the new tires went on?

Too much air in the tires will do that as well. I don't have my Dino anymore, and don't recall what they recommend, but here are the Ferrari Tech notices on tires and suspension from Ferrari from the early 70's.
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I suspect the tire pressure will fix it up.

Let us know.

D

 

Tires I recently bought from England did the same thing. It felt like the rear of the car was on ice. They are very sensitive to pressure. Once I adjusted pressure they were just fine.

Where are yours made? I think mine were from Slovenia or Slovakia or somewhere like that. That was a bit disappointing.

 

The new Michelin XWX are made in Serbia.

 

Hi

Has the tyre pressure fixed it?

It does sound like it could be a pressure issue.

The 205/70VR14 Michelin XWX | Longstone Tyres that we are currently supplying for the Dino, are made in Serbia, but these are still a Michelin tyre and they come with that guarantee of quality that you get when you buy a Michelin.

 

Phew!

 

what pressure did you end up going with
Im curious
someone marked in my owners manual 31 rear 27 front
michelin xwx

 

Dougal,

It's great you're concerned about your customers! That's rare these days! 🙂

Freeman

 

I'll admit, I'm Dougal's biggest fan.

Prices. Service. Fast delivery*. Free delivery (at least when I ordered).




*Ordered on Saturday, sitting by my front door on Wednesday, from England to South Carolina. I kid you not. Cocker never came close to that and they would not give me a date code.
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In order not to start a new thread for a minor point, I'm adding this here.

These tires, from Serbia that several of us have, to me seem different in one other way.

No matter what I do to keep them clean, it seems within a few days they develop a brown filmy coating as though they are outgassing something.

Can happen within hours if in direct sun.

Anyone else notice this?

 

Pretty normal, my michelin ps2 do the same thing and it's a chemical that is supposed to extend tire life making it's way out and reacting with air.
If you read tire threads, they say to just clean it off it the appearance bothers you.
Some tire lotions (potions) claim to reduce or eliminate it. I've been using the meguiars tire gel which seems ok.

 

Thank you for your kind words chaps. We do our best and we enjoy what we do. i think you can just be fair in pricing, do things as best you can and enjoy doing it, and be happy to have happy customers.

Please tell your mates.

The difficulties with tyres now compared to the way they historically were made is they have to be made of different materials. so we don't snap the ozone.

Historically we used to make tyres out of anthrax, plutonium and cryptonite so that it would last for ever, and never deteriorate. then what we did is put them on our cars and then rubbed them against some tarmac to grate them into a fine dust which then went into the water supply. not really ideal because it would stay there for ever. And what do you do with a tyre carcass made of cryptonite, anthrax and plutonium. You've got to bury it, and it will be there for ever.

So today we have to have out tyres made out of something that is more sustainable. Now we all like to laugh along with Jeremy Clarkson and pretend we don't care if we live on a land fill site because we use so many plastic bottles, wrapping & crytonite tyre carcasses . But we do have the ability to make tyres that work as well and are more sustainable with modern science and stuff; so we should. If you can be greener without it hurting then we should.

On a modern car; who cars if a tyre is perished when it is 7 years old. who cares, it's bald by then and has been changed so it doesn't matter. but on classic carts that get used sparingly things are different.

DO NOT PRESSURE WASH YOUR TYRES!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway; I'm all revved up and excited. I have just fitted some new Borrani's on my car Phwarr!
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typical symptoms with mid / rear engine (weighted)cars... when "bubba" installs tires on a car he has no clue about and inflates all tires equally...fronts do not carry the same load as the rears as a result the response from a light load and over inflation characteristics become unequal front to rear...check the recommended settings in owners manual and start there... depending on car I may have as much as 10psi more in the rears... I set the rear pressure first then adjust the front pressure until I get the balance I want

 

"Anyway; I'm all revved up and excited. I have just fitted some new Borrani's on my car Phwarr!"

Lovely car Dougal.
So you didn't go tubeless to save some weight out at the circumference like I reckon Colin Chapman would have done now it's a common and reliable tweek?
We have about 12 Elites racing on our tubeless alloy Turrino rims (and probably your tyres) with no problems.
Will
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Tubeless wire wheels scare the b'Jesus out of me. I personally do not think they are fit for purpose. i have had to fit inner tubes in too many because of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gce9-VU_X_s

I'm also not really a fan oif fitting after market alloys on cars like this. nearly every proletariat classic car i see at a show these days is fitted with a Minilite. I suppose those Lotus/Cooper wobbly web wheels would have been cool; but i like https://www.borrani.com/ My main interest is my pre war Frazer Nash special, but other than that i have been craving a car with Borrani's and i think there are very few cars that look as good as an Elite. specially mine.

Anyway, here is the exciting news. just the other day a lorry turned up from pirelli and delivered these
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