Michellin'd SuperSport

[Giorginetto]

HAs anyone fitted the Michellin's supersport new N3 Porsche rated tyre ? Any feedback ?

At the moment i was told its not available to order from France , i wonder if there is any stock of these in the UK... and where....

[mrdemon]

No such tyre

[sidicks]

mrdemon said:

No such tyre

Presumably, as and when the N-version of the Supersport becomes available it will be 'N1' as the first generation of this tyre?!

Sidicks

[Giorginetto]

So this tyre is not available in N rate 19inch for a 2007 Carrera ?

[MadMark911]

If it was - they'd have sold an awful lot judging by the demand on here!

[Trev450]

Giorginetto said:

So this tyre is not available in N rate 19inch for a 2007 Carrera ?

They are not currently available in N rated in any size.

[LindsayMac]

Should be ready Q2 2013

[V8KSN]

I have some Michelin Pilot Super Sport (Non-N rated) tyres on my car and I have just done 2500 miles on them across several European countries, several mountains in Switzerland and lots of French autoroutes and I would like to report the following...

Nothing broke on my car
My car handled extremely well in sunshine and biblical rain
I am still alive

[SFO]

LindsayMac said:

Should be ready Q2 2013

how do you know this?

[gl20]

V8KSN said:

I have some Michelin Pilot Super Sport (Non-N rated) tyres on my car and I have just done 2500 miles on them across several European countries, several mountains in Switzerland and lots of French autoroutes and I would like to report the following...

Nothing broke on my car
My car handled extremely well in sunshine and biblical rain
I am still alive

But I thought the N on the side of the tyre was the difference between life and death? I'm sure that's what the OPC guy told me... Perhaps the 'N' in MichelliN suffices.

[RDMcG]

Been using non N Supersports on my Gen 1 RS for a year. They are great, especially in the wet, though just a bit less grippy than the Cups in the dry.

[Matt Seabrook]

The Supersport has been developed with Porsche so they should be very good on a Porsche to start with. The N spec tyres are tweaked to perform exactly the way the vehicle manufacture intends. In the case of N tyres it's Porsche * is BMW and so on. Now some times its the compounds that are different and some times the casing is made different ie the way the ply is made up. The manufacture may specify that a tyre is to have x handling characteristic or y braking characteristic. So this is when the tyre is reworked and is homologated (spelling)for a specific application.

So seeing as the SuperSport has been developed with the help of Porsche it's no surprise being the latest generation of high performance tyre it works well with Porsche. That said I would be surprised if any of the premium tyres from all of the leading brand manufactures spat you off the road. It's just that not many drivers are good enough to be able to tell if they have a good tyre fitted or not.