Tyres (tires?)

[vetviper]

My 2000 GTS will shortly need new tyres - it currently has Michelins. I have two questions, first are these a good tyre to stick with; and second, as the wheels are so large, do they need to be fitted by a specialist tyre fitter, or will my local tyre fitter be able to do the job without damaging the wheels?

Thanks very much

Richard

[Gixer]

I found most normal fitters don't have a balance machine with a wide enough saftey hood to cover the tyre and therefore can't balance them. There's nothing worse than getting a rim chewed by a muppet that dosent know what they are doing so I would go somewhere that do - even if its more.

If you are talking about Pilots I had them on my ZR1 and really liked them in the dry and wet. The Goodyear GSD3 F1's I have now are also very good in the dry when warm but no grip when cold. They are good in the wet. There is a Bridgestone tyre built for the Lambo that I almost had fitted that would be in Viper size. I bought from tire rack in the US as no one had them over here, not even Northants. Great service and the tyres are E marked

[zed sump]

Gixer said:

I found most normal fitters don't have a balance machine with a wide enough saftey hood to cover the tyre and therefore can't balance them. There's nothing worse than getting a rim chewed by a muppet that dosent know what they are doing so I would go somewhere that do - even if its more.

If you are talking about Pilots I had them on my ZR1 and really liked them in the dry and wet. The Goodyear GSD3 F1's I have now are also very good in the dry when warm but no grip when cold. They are good in the wet. There is a Bridgestone tyre built for the Lambo that I almost had fitted that would be in Viper size. I bought from tire rack in the US as no one had them over here, not even Northants. Great service and the tyres are E marked

choice of equally wide wheeled Lambo/veyron cars on show yesterday seemed to be Pirelli P-Zeros. was no spec for pre 2003 viper on the alignment computer tho... so take your manual...strange since they had the specs for the 1965 Tiger!

[Viper]

the Pilots were espicially designed for the viper, factory fit and hard to beat for general all round use

in your ever in Birmighmam there's a great race specialist place that handles the rears no problem, fitting and balancing them

[bigviper]

my new ps2,s are great

[vetviper]

Thanks very much for the advice all - I'll let you know how I get on