These tyres seem cheap!
Has anyone any experience of these in 205/50/16 before I buy them
Cheers

Whoops its actually Falken FK 451 tyres

FK 451's are excellent tyres. Value for money. They have a silicon based compound and are primarily wet weather tyres. A bit noisy but unless you are brand concious you cant go wrong.

It stands up to the tropical weather we have here in South East Asia and with our monsoon type rains it does not dissappoint. On track days at the Sepang F1 track the compound gets really sticky.

Our daily temperatures run in the region of 30 degrees C.

Excellent tyre - in 17" anyway, not tried 16". I tried Toyos last time to see what the fuss was about, be going back to Falkens soon :)

As mentioned above. quite noisy on motorway for the first 4k km's or so and wear out very quickly on track (but cheap enough for it not to matter!) - but fantastic on the road, wet or dry.

Richard

PS: if you do use them on track, drop the pressures. I ran them with higher than normal pressures on the road, but on track they overheated very quickly.

Yup excellent tyre,
I have gone through two sets so far and they have loads of grip, not too pricey either at approx £280 all in....
and they have a good kerb protector to help the other half park without grinding the alloys !!!

Dan,
what sort of mileage were you getting on a set of Falkens?

roughly somewhere in the 15-20K miles region, lots of roundabouts and "fun" driving scrubbed them out.....
I believe they are a fairly soft compound (similair to Yokahamas?), hence lowish miles but excellent grip

I'm running the Falken 504's.

I thinks it's the same compound as the 451's. The grip absolutely fantastic in the dry and very good in the wet too. The best i've had in the wet.

Jase
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Sightings report that Nessie has been seen driving a 155... not an RB5

I have just got 18's wrapped in falken fk-451's and must say .... impressive. I running on 215/35 18's I used to run 205/40 17 grb's
they were good as well.

Had these fitted for a week now
Can definitaley recommend them
And at 250 quid all in the price aint bad
Thanks for the advice all

I have Falken 215-40/17's on my new Rim2000's...not sure which Falkens they are but they only cost about £55+vat!!!! gets you a new set of tyres cheap, i've found them fine! nice looking tread too....just scrub them in well!
http://upload.turbosport.co.uk/galle...5823589840.JPG

Phil

[Edited by salsa-king - 2/14/2002 11:08:31 PM]