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What differences and advantages did you find from swapping ordinary road tyres for Avon CR6ZZ's? Are they really worth the expenditure for a road car??
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The problem here Nige is that most people including myself will be changing their tyres because of either lack of tread or probably that the rubber is long past its best due to age. Either way the old rubber would be pretty poor performer against anything new.
In my case whilst the old tyres looked perfectly good and only half worn they but were 15 years old!
One assumes that the rubber would have been less compliant and grippy than when they were newer.
Needless to say I was pretty impressed with the improvement with my new Avon’s.
It would need someone to analyse some alternative rubber. EG Galaxy R1’s. For example these are available in 255 x 60 x 15” or 275 x 60 x 15” with correct V speed rating unlike many others.
As I am making do with 245 x 60’s it would be interesting to know how the Galaxy’s perform.
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I have the Galaxy on but the project will be ready for testing only in a year, finger crossed :-)
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Out of interest Migge is the raised white lettering only on one side. E.g could it be hidden on the inside?
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White letter on the inside. 6.5 front 215/60/15, 9.5 rear 245/60/15
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Another vote for Galaxy. I have the vulgar white lettering on the outside :).
Can't justify the extra £1000 for Avons on a car doing very low mileage, although the tread pattern does look better.
235s front and 255s rear on a 427 shaped body.
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I think the highlighted lettering looks OK on a 427 but out of place on a 289 even if it is an FIA.
I agree on the costs versus low mileage but at the end of the day four little patches of rubber keep you safe on the road. Ideally one would need a magazine to conduct back to back tests to evaluate the two.
Evo magazine does that once a year but of course its comparing modern low profile rubber on 18 or 19" rims not classic car sizes.
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I've heard good things about the Galaxy in the CRC. If you need white lettering buy stencils. I have tried them but without success. All tyre paint versions are not really sticky to the tyre. Picture of the period correct Good Year tyre.
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Hi Peter, Yes a back-to-back test would be great.
Meantime, you will be hard pressed to find a bad Galaxy review anywhere on the interspleb, same as for Avons. Both V-rated, so more than adequate for our cars on the public highway I think. Most of the imported US tyres (Firestones, GoodYear etc) are sadly H-rated - I have seen plenty of high power V8 cars wearing them, but I don't think its advisable. Kevin
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Migge wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:45 pm I've heard good things about the Galaxy in the CRC. If you need white lettering buy stencils. I have tried them but without success. All tyre paint versions are not really sticky to the tyre. Picture of the period correct Good Year tyre.
This is still something for my todo list.
Please inform us if you had success with the stencils.
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