OT nankang on the daily
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any one using them ? good or bad
i need 4 new tyres for the wifes car and £480 is a lot to fork out when money is needed in other areas
im asking as last tine i got a pair of budgets its was like driving on ice
i found these on ebay and was wondering
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235-45R17-94V-NA...=item27ce91f760

http://www.fishfight.net/

wow dont buy nankang's there rubbish!

Reading up on RTS Clutches

barum bravius2 tyres are good and cheap
got up a snowy alp no problem
and lasted 30k!

rebranded continental eco contact's

Reading up on RTS Clutches

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235-45-r-17-94y-...w-/200879873798

bargain

Reading up on RTS Clutches

a set of nankangs came with my mini and they are crap, especially in the wet. If I had the cash i would take them off tomorrow.

had a set years ago on a car I purchased, they were in the ditch finder category...

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

they are noisey, as much grip as slics it the snow,

if you have a 20 hp car and only go shopping once a week 2 miles then there ok JUST!

Rule of thumb with tyres, if they sound crap they usually are, step forward Nankang, Linglong, Fateo, etc etc......
There are plenty of mid range tyres at a decent price that will be far better, the likes of Toyo, Falken, etc.
Anyway think yourself lucky they are not a more exotic size, just after Xmas I had to lay out nearly £500 for a bloody pair of tyres.

Edited by Tom Fenton on 15th Jan, 2013.

i had nankangs on my 88bhp vw lupo with coilovers and had all the suspension set up laser aligned and all camber reset etc....... tyres didnt last long! wasnt pleased!

Mind you Tom you do drive fast!!!

well, in recent years i've been a bit of a brand junkie an would generally only put the likes of pirelli, michelin, bridgestones etc on the car.

However a friend of mine has one of the Saab 93 Turbo X estates and has been spending a fortune of tyres in the past year and a bit that they have had it. He eventually put nangkangs on at the tail end of last year and has noticed very little differance in performance and is more than happy with the savings on cost.

Having said all that, I put more michelins on the audi instead

Nankangs are crap, I had a set on my xr2 that came on the car. Could go up this hill in my down where the boy racers charge up, in the wet it would spin the wheels in each gear and stop in 4th. They were horrid in the wet!

nuff said

http://www.fishfight.net/

big fan of nankang naegrips and sumitomo ditchfinders.

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

got nankangs on the misus's cinq....

they are actually pretty good, that is a cinq though....

i completely misread the title of this thread so didnt want to click on it...

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

I had some Federals on a lupo sport which were pretty cheap and seemed quite good.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

I had Nankang ns2 s on my old Dailey, it wasn't a racing car but they're weren't bad at all, I'd have them again!

I,m using HiFlys on my C Max and they seem OK.

None of the cheap tyres ever seem to last very long though