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Old 08-12-2002, 05:00 AM
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If anyone gets their tyres changed and the old ones have even a little life left in them I'd very much like them!

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Old 08-12-2002, 05:06 AM
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Tif,

After all the recent discussion on tyres I have discovered that my car has 225 S02 Pole Positions on the rear! As these are the wrong tyres and I am finding the car very back happy, I am considering changing them for OEM S02's in the near future (Probably September).

I am guessing you want these for track days? If so, would you be interested in two rear 225 PP's?

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Is this the motoring equivalent of scabbling around in the gutter for dog ends????!!!
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oh yes They would be ideal, if they have a little life in them I'd be hapy to contribute a little to your new boots
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Okay, I will keep the old ones and give you a shout when they are available, wasn't keen on just giving the Bracknell Tyres a perfectly good pair of tyres!

So, is this for track days or have you developed a rubber fettish??

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yep, track tyres
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Do you still have enough grip on well worn tyres? I usually think about changing mine when the performance starts to drop off. I kept the first set of rears for emergency, in case I got stuck without tyres again. I thought about using them as track tyres, using the best tread on the inside. I'm not sure what this would do to the handling, as I think that swapping the fronts over with about 9,000 miles wear did not help the handling.
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anyone got spare fronts?
Other rears on offer?
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I've got my 2 original tyres in the roof of my garage Tiff just in case of a tyre shortage. They have about 2 mm on them until they hit the blocks.

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Getting mine changed on Weds. Chris, the fronts are just about legal (close, very close) but there are no shoulders on them whatsoever thanks to Bruntingthorpe, Don palmer and now a day at Llandow last week.
So there is tread across 3/4 of each tyre but none on the outside - yours at the Supermeet FOC boot space permitting.....let me know.


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