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At what point do you change your R tyres?

Laurence Gibbs

Laurence Gibbs

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simple question on the face of it. Just wondered what others let their tread depths get to before changing them? Mine are about 3mm to 4mm across most of the tyre with all the wear bars well below the tread depth andthere is about 2 mm tread depth at the very shoulders possibly a smidge more.
 
Laurence,
I run mine right down to the wear markers and still seem to shuffle along at a decent pace, so long as wear is even across the tyre you should be OK, mine wear prematurely on the n/s shoulders......especially at the front.
Cheers,
Kevin
 
Same, last set we wore out incompletely, then swapped - if just doing trackdays, get more value out of them. Of course, this assumes you trailer the car. Which I think you do!
 
It's only a question of how lucky you feel in the rain ...

Otherwise you could run them down to the canvas ...

The Pirelli slicks used in the Porsche Club Championship turn to slime well before this point --- based on heat cyles. Four are five and they are shot. And a set of new slicks is worth 4 seconds around Silverstone !



 
Thanks guys. I am driving to Spa hence the question really. I think mine are probably just about ok to do Spa and come back with a reasonable margin of safety. Given the sort of rain we have had recently i don't want to be caught out.
 
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