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Falken tyres?

keithfly12

keithfly12

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Hi 997 friends

I have a nice 997 Gen 2 (Carrera, manual) for which I traded in a 997 gen 1 Cabriolet (thanks to Portiacraft who gave me a decent deal).

Anyway, Portiacraft seemed to have fitted some new front tyres - which are Falkens (rears have good Bridgestones). Apart from the fact that the Falkens aren't N rated, what do people think? I'm a bit reluctant to just ditch new tyres. By the way, I'm a fairly 'mild' driver as far as you can be in a 997...

Thanks
 
Falken are a very good medium price tyre( so my tyre trade bud says) and he fitted them to my daily polo
no way they’d get on my porsche ??
 
Having run Falken tyres on a 993 and a 964 recently I have to say these are acceptable tyres. E. g. a Michelin Pilot Sport for sure is the better tyre, but as you say you´re a mild driver, so the Falken should do the job. I remember that it took some time to bed them in when they were new.
So, for daily driving I wouldn´t dump these new tyres - next set could be Michelins then!

Hope that helps,

Hacki
 
The Falken 235/35/19 appears to be only about £30 per tyre cheaper than a Bridgestone N rated tyre. Personally, I would be pretty cheesed off at a dealer putting these on a Porsche. Rightly or wrongly I would only have the same ( N rated) rubber on all 4 corners.
 
What tsc said above. Would have been well worth contributing £60 imho. Unbelievable they cut corners like that.
 
As mentioned above of course it´s the best way if you have the same rubber on all corners. Then again as it´s a Porsche and not cheap anyway it makes sense to have four new tyres. That would have been the correct way to do it. Replacing just two tyres felt very dangerous for the first couple of hundred miles on a 964, not much better on a 993. No experience with a 997 here.

 
I've just read Hacki's post and I totally agree, when I bought a 964 C2 some years ago it had different makes of tyres front and rear - albeit good quality tyres - after a few weeks or so I had to do a very heavy brake from high speed (possibly not totally legal) and I had to really fight the car to keep control! I swore then that I'd never mix makes of tyres front and rear. My current 997.1 C4S cab has Bridgestones all round and are excellent but will probably try the Michelin's (set of 4) next time. Hope it helps.
 
Having bought my car from Portiacraft, I am surprised that they fitted non N rated tires.
Its an outfit that do know what they are doing.
I fitted Pirelli P Zeros to my car as recommended by the tyre specialist and told to leave the Michelin’s as I was no taking the car to the track. Very happy with them.
 
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