New to tuning...what are the best tires to tune on?

[RTDude1981]

Hey guys,
I am getting into the tuning aspect of GT5 a little more than before and am wondering about what tires you guys would consider best for tuning to get a good setup. Do you use stock tires and tune from there or do you use a specific tire (comfort soft, for example) to tune with?

I am just getting started with tuning and am starting off with a cheap car to make it handle and go the way I want it to. Going slow for now, changing parameters little by little to see what they do and how they affect the car. I wanted to know what your opinions were for tuning with tire selection. Thanks in advance for the replies guys.

 

[bigberry]

Tyre choice is dependant on bhp, performance points and in some cases drivetrain eg 550bhp all going to the rear wheels can cause wheelspin.

Generally id say under 500pp you can use sports softs or below . 450pp and lower sports mediums or hards should be fine.

Its not till I get to 550pp+ that I would consider racing hards.

In general road cars 500pp and under sports softs or below , at higher levels racing hards or medium (if necessary ).

 

[XDesperado67]

I have a couple of thoughts on this subject.

1st) Tune on the tire you plan the car to be driven on regardless of PP. So a hot hatch tuned at 450PP that you plan to race online using Racing Softs would be tuned on Racing Soft tires. If instead you were planning to use it for Touge racing limited to Sport Hard tires then tune it using Sport hard tires.

2nd) General purpose tunes I will generally tune on Sports Soft tires. These give sufficient grip for most cars under 600PP to be driveable, and are hard enough not mask the behavior of the suspension.

Generally a car tuned on a harder tire will be easier to adjust for the use of a softer tire than a tire tuned on a softer tire trying to use a harder tire.

Some say because of the increasing levels of grip with softer tires you can't tell how the suspension is affecting your handling. I don't totally agree with that but it can be easier to spot some issues with a harder tire. That said the best tune will be achieved when the suspension is tuned to match the tire selection. i.e. if I tune a car on Sports Soft tires it might have acceptable handling as is when equipped with Racing Medium tires but spending a little extra time fine tuning the suspension on the Racing Medium tires will allow the car to maximize the potential of those tires.

 

[shmogt]

racing soft is the best obviously, but that's the whole point of tuning is to choose whatever tires you want than make the car as good as it can be for those tires

 

[Winters Noble]

I see tuning with Sport Hards as the best course. Anyone can hide tuning issues with high grip tires, tuning with normal tires gives you a better sense of what needs to be done with your car.

 

[bys]

I always tune to sports softs - offline and race with racing softs online. This way it built in a "safety factor" cause it's one thing gunning for the quickest lap time alone, offline. But with online physics, lag, and the orgy at the start of race, you need something not so close to the edge.

This was before the spec 2.0 update though...

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I see tuning with Sport Hards as the best course. Anyone can hide tuning issues with high grip tires, tuning with normal tires gives you a better sense of what needs to be done with your car.

Agreed. I feel that sport hards should be used on street cars, otherwise, people are just taking the easy(er) way out.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

I tune on racing soft tires because thats what I race on so I guess it would depend on the type of tires you plan on racing on.