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Federal tyres

  • 07-02-2015 3:23pm
    #1
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭


    Any opinions on Federal tyres?.


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  • #2
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    A dealer put the 595 SS on a car I bought a few years ago. They lacked grip and caused vibration at speed. They were swapped off pretty quickly. I'd spend a few quid on something better.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    www.google.com/search?q=Federal+tyres+site:boards.ie


  • #4
    9935452
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭9935452


    biko wrote: »
    www.google.com/search?q=Federal+tyres+site:boards.ie

    It seems like they can be got in a soft compound which gives good grip but rapid tyre wear, or a hard compound which gives poor grip in the wet with very little tyre wear. The thing is what do you want


  • #5
    Mechanic365
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Mechanic365


    Federal tyres are downright dangerous, i thought they'd have been banned here by now. The last set i had were like gliding whenever the road was greasy, they were 205/40 under a civic that I bought, drove for a bit and dismantled.
    At first I just looked over the car and tyres had good thread, never thought twice about it.
    Cheap is what cheap gets


  • #6
    porsche boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭porsche boy


    an 'in joke' in my garage is to call them Ferrell tyres, as in wild and unpredictable. Still though, far better than Triangle's and Wanli's and Blacklion.


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  • #7
    Chuck_Norris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Chuck_Norris


    aujopimur wrote: »
    Any opinions on Federal tyres?.

    Had them on a set of alloys I bought, they didn't stay on too long. As others have said, a lot of noise and vibration with them. And downright dangerous in the wet. Not just torrential rain wet, but any form of moisture on the road. Could not recommend in any way shape or form.


  • #8
    Alf32
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Alf32


    These tyres are pure rubbish, got a set for the front of my Toyota Hilux about 6 months ago @ €130 each and after only a couple months there wass severe wear and cracking on the insides and outsides of them, it's almost down to the minimum tyre depth indicators now and il be very lucky to ge the full year out of them. Very disappointed as I had Bridgestone on it for 4 years before that. Tracking etc on the Hilux is perfect so no problem there, just a really poor soft tyre compound. Wouldn't recommend them to anyone.


  • #9
    anthony4335
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭anthony4335


    Never had a grip problem with them, but I find them very noisy and my car pulls to which ever side the camber of the road is. I will never buy them again. I have had them before and the don't last and I should have known better but I was going to sell the car so I didn't want to spend the money on good tyres ,silly me.


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