CX tyres advise please...

[capsuleboy]

I need a full set of tyres for my early CX.

 

Now I do like to keep stuff original, but I aint paying the £215 each needed to buy the Michelins and I need all 5...

 

Hankook 185/80 x14 look to have a blocky old school tread pattern and are £215 for the set of 5. Cheap shit or just about OK.

 

Thoughts please gents as I know there is a lot of CX love on here.

[richardmorris]

Last time I bought tyres for mine I had Michelin energy at about £65 each. That was 2001 ish though!

[dollywobbler]

I've tried Hankooks on a couple of cars and rate them. Mind you, I slapped a couple of cheap Hero tyres on my CX and it didn't seem to have any detrimental effect. It was an actual hero in snow.

[DSdriver]

I've got Hankooks on both Ds, it's not worth me buying full fat tyres when they die of old age before they are half worn out.

[Cavcraft]

Didn't these have directional tyres on when new?

 

Could you drop to something like 185/70/14s to (hopefully) give you better tyre choice?

[dollywobbler]

Not sure about that, but they do have different sizes front and rear I think.

[RayMK]

I've had Hankooks on other cars and they seemed fine.  When I had my Cx GTi Turbo 2 in the 1990s, I bought part worn tyres off a recent GTi scrapper because brand new metric tyres were eye-wateringly expensive even back then.

[chaseracer]

Didn't these have directional tyres on when new?

 

They certainly had an asymmetrical tread pattern; not sure about directional, though.

[twosmoke300]

Fdb will be up now telling us the Citroen suspension / braking is so good you could run the rims directly on the tarmac and still have rolls beating ride quality and out corner f1 cars of the era .

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[Bear]

Avons

[Parky]

Tyre Leader showing Kleber tyres for £55 per corner which I thought was pretty good but then noticed they were van tyres....tricky size your one. Blackcircles have quite a range but again they all seem to be for Vans.

 

Are those Hankooks definitely car tyres? Compound or construction might make upset the cx ride and handling in some way?

[Inspector Morose]

195/70R14 on front. 185/65R14 I think rear, according to what I remember is on the factory sticker in the drivers side door pillar. Can't check as my car is miles away.

[Bren]

Fdb will be up now telling us the Citroen suspension / braking is so good you could run the rims directly on the tarmac and still have rolls beating ride quality and out corner f1 cars of the era .

 

If anything you would buy the best you could afford - unfortunately OE spec stuff is horrendous cost wise.

[PiperCub]

£215 sounds a hell of a lot even for a Michelin - the CX hasn't got Metric rims has it? (Or is that later models?) as that might explain the price.

 

Not had much experience with Hankooks personally but a suitably knowlegable mate had a set of Hankooks fitted to his Pug 508 recently instead of his preferred Falkens (they only had three of them in stock and he didn't want to mix) and said he was very impressed with both grip and lack of road noise, can't comment on wear as it's too soon.

 

If nothing else, the name 'Hankook' is off-putting, it just sounds like it's going to be cheap crappy ditch-finder fodder even though they aren't and get fitted as OE on high performance kit quite often. 

 

As Bren says, buy the best you can afford - sound advice.

[Eddie Honda]

Trx metrics are far more than £215...

[forddeliveryboy]

Fdb will be up now telling us the Citroen suspension / braking is so good you could run the rims directly on the tarmac and still have rolls beating ride quality and out corner f1 cars of the era .

 

 

Haha! Anything but - tyres with sidewalls big enough to write a book on filtered out all the high frequency stuff which at low speeds, gas over oil pushrods make a total meal of. Seem to think the last pair of fronts I bought was a pair of 195x14 Michelin van tyres, they were about £55 a piece and lasted well, even though they gripped hard in the wet. The turbodiesel was a bit tweaked and could easily handle the slightly longer gearing, my tyre man said they'd be perfectly safe  at 130ish, which was about the fastest it used to go.

 

Seems to me all the rubber compliance in tyre sidewalls has ended up in suspension bushes. Give me bigger tyres and metal bearings in the wishbones, anyday. Bit like F1, y'know ;+

[Six-cylinder]

My 2500 I/E is on Metric TRX and had a pair in 2012 but I can't find the receipt, the receipt for 2008 says they were around £200 each.

 

My 2400 I/E is on non metric steel rims with large Pallas chrome hub caps and the tyres for that car cheap, but you have to have non metric rims.

[beko1987]

I had hankook evo fsomethings on my puma and they were fooking ace.

 

Possibly not a gr9 comparison though, but I'd go for them

[SOUL]

Some handy info about CX tyres here: http://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/page/citroen-cx

 

Vredestein are good tyres and maybe worth talking to your local independent tyre supplier for a deal on a set of them.

[Lacquer Peel]

Is there any problem with using van tyres?

[billyboy406v6]

Is there any problem with using van tyres?

Not if he paints it white and puts his name on it ?

[Parky]

I assume they are reinforced for extra weight, or specially designed for cornering flat through housing estates?

[solid61]

Early ones had 185/14s on the front and 175/14s on the back,michelin XVS's as standard and didnt look or drive as good on other makes.

[mrcitroen]

I bought the Michelin XZX tyres for my GS from Pneus online who are based in France. Their prices at the time were far better than Longstone or Vintage tyres.

 

Problem with the GS is that their is only 2 choices in the correct size. The XZX or a Nankang tyre which has a modern square edge tread shoulder which does not suit the GS.

 

Good luck on your search. I'm still sore a year after buying those!

[forddeliveryboy]

There should be no problem whatsoever buying tyres for a CX, I see something Longstone carefully avoids mentioning is that many CXs were shod with 195/70/14s, which worked well although they're a bit smaller. They're offered in many varieties, I'd perhaps try these http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=110&cart_id=69665753.110.21166&Breite=195&Quer=70&Felge=14&Speed=&kategorie=6&ranzahl=4&tyre_for=&x_tyre_for=&rsmFahrzeugart=ALL&search_tool=standard&Label=C-B-70-2&details=Ordern&typ=R-234808 Vredesteins at £208 for a set. 205/70/14s would be even better, but they're not being offered at half price, but there is a good choice of Chinese stuff around £40.

 

Otherwise I'd search out a set of 15" wheels from an Alfa 75 V6, Alfa 147, Alfa 164 V6, Alfa 156, Citroën Evasion, Fiat Ulysse or Peugeot 806 and fit some 205/65/15s. The common modern size 205/55/16 is also a possibility, but I'd steer away from shallow sidewalls on a hydraulic Cit.

[Eddie Honda]

Problem with the GS is that their is only 2 choices in the correct size. The XZX or a Nankang tyre which has a modern square edge tread shoulder which does not suit the GS.

It varies from time to time. At the minute you can also get a Firestone F560 in that size. So does the price. When I bought my Michelins they were 120 quid a pop, now they are only* £103.