[Healeys] TYRES

[Joe and Lenore Armour]

Each and almost every company will make a tyre to suit a range of 
buyers/users.  Moral do not blindly buy according to company advertising 
blurb.

My suggestion is with cars that generally do little mileage buy 'soft' 
tyres that handle and brake well. In autralia the motoring mags. do tyre 
tests with the same vvehicle and driver. It is amazing for example that 
in brand name tyres you can get several car length difference in 
stopping distances.  The best wet performance and dry are not not 
necessarily from the same brand.

One FACT I find most usefull is the number on the side of the tyre that 
indicates it's wear factor. It is assumed that low wear is consistant 
with soft rubber and therefore better grip. For example our local GM V.8 
goer is issued with Wear Indicator 140,  my Michelins were 240 as were 
my Continentals. As a comparison my Sprite road legal track day tyres 
are 60.

Go to you shop and say give me cheap tyres and you may be sold 360.

When I need to stop in a hurry I want to STOP.  It would seem most of us 
and our cars are aging and we need all the help we can get. Our only 
contact with the road is that little patch, do you want adhesion or 
something approaching carbon?

Joe