Well, the evidence is quickly piling up, isn’t it… wonder what it is about these cars that makes them so sensitive to mixed tyres? As I say, I’m getting on a bit now, and have never encountered anything like it in nearly 50 years of driving, and a lot of different cars.
For comparison, from 2005-2010 I drove a BMW M3 – 320bhp, rear wheel drive, which ate tyres at such a rate that sometimes I resorted to cheapo ones, and the only difference I ever noticed was an increased tendency to lose the back end in the wet. The car was always rock solid even at speeds which… err… approached the legal speed limit on motorways (that’s 150, right? I find it hard to remember these things accurately…)
Anyway, it’ll have to wait for now, as we’re desperately trying to salvage a holiday in Corfu next month – be thankful you don’t live in N Ireland, where so much routinely available to everybody in the rest of the UK is “excluded”… in this case, one company has a monopoly on the requisite COVID tests for returning home, adding hundreds of Pounds to the holiday cost
At some stage after I get back, I’ll accept the hit and put matching Toyos on the front, and report back…