What tire type do you use on your production cars?

[wmwolverines]

What tire type do you use on your production cars? I'm not talking about economy cars like a slightly modified Civic but your sports cars and supercars?

[I realize it differs car to car but generally, what type of tire do you typically outfit your high performance production cars?]

 

[Bushby_23]

If I remember to do it, racing meds, if not softs.

 

[balang_479]

What ever it comes with, no?

 

[UnionStrike]

What ever it comes with, no?

This, though sometimes I'll go with one tire level up over the stock tire.

 

[iamjajo]

I use sports tires on my high performance production cars. Usually soft, but it depends on track, restrictions, etc. I used Sports Hard on the Lambo challenge with my car tuned to 560 PP. Made it a little more challenging to win, but it was fun.

 

[VTiRoj]

Sports softs usually.

 

[uMadson?]

Race softs because I'm too lazy. But sometimes I go with Sport softs.

 

[eXon-Rampage]

Sports hard. I tend to keep my cars stock.

 

[phil bell]

The so called "stock tire" really isnt the sport hard unless you're talking about a track-biased car like a 911 GT3,GT2.

As you can see from the pictures and tyre grip it's a semi slick like,that's what sport's tyres are classed as.Basically a DOT approved race tire with thread and a different compound that's barely legal,biased to track use.

The race tyres are all not road legal,heck they don't even have any thread!

So i would discount all these for my road/production car's unless the tyre width for a paticular car is really thin (eg;EVO VI,R34 GTR),then I would use sport hard to simulate the added grip of a wider tyre.

Hence I use comfort soft's for most of my car's,no problem with em.

 

[Exorcet]

What ever it comes with, no?

In GT5, the tires are, essentially, chosen at random.

I use Comfort Soft most often since it gives the most accurate lateral g load for supercars (Viper SRT-10, etc). Sometimes Sports Hard to simulate street legal racing tires (Viper ACR, etc [though I've recently started using Sports Med on the ACR since PD messed up its aero]).

 

[jojonathan13]

Sports hard with pretty nice power/handling modifications and sports soft with true time attack modifications. Even with racing cars i dont go over racing hard. I just like to keep the cars very close with real life avoiding even unreal camber angles and downforce settings.

 

[ucwepn]

sports soft for me usually, sports soft feel more predictable than racing softs mostly.

 

[Wiegert]

I use Sports Soft tyres most of the time, although I use Racing Hard tyres on some of my cars.

 

[freedomweasel]

Comfort softs to sports softs depending on the car, tune, mood, etc.

 

[Watevaman]

Mostly sports hard (aka stock in the game). If I'm going to be doing something where I don't want to lose grip, I'll throw sports soft and if I want to have a lot of fun I'll put comfort mediums or so on.

 

[alex1369]

Always racing super soft if there are no restrictions... best grip and max cornering speed - you cant ask for more

 

[toni_cro]

deafult, so its sport:hard on most supercars

 

[hyyperactive]

Sport hards or comfort softs. Online it is usually racing softs because that's what everyone is using.

 

[GfxJG]

Since I never lack money, it's alwasy Racing Softs for me =P

 

[chuyler1]

For A-spec, I don't upgrade the tires unless the A.I. is on upgraded tires. I try to match them.

For Online, I restrict to sport soft or racing soft depending on the night. The difference between the two is really just a few brake zones. Some tracks let you run WOT on RS tires while on SS tires you have to tap the brakes a few more times. It's really just a matter of adapting and learning the brake zones.





This game has a big following of tuners, sim'ers (simulation fanatics), and gamers (DS3 drivers). Tire selection will reveal the strengths and weaknesses of each driver type.

CS Tires: Good for sim'ers, so-so for tuners, and horrible for gamers. Tuners can find some edge on this tire but driver skill can make a bad tune much quicker than a good tune. 4WD cars typically dominate but simulation drivers that are smooth and fast will annihilate the competition. There is typically only one quick driving line so passing can be very difficult. It's more a game of who makes the least mistakes.

SS Tires: Good for sim'ers, great for tuners, so-so for gamers. Sim racers will still enjoy getting the car sideways but properly tuned cars can dominate the field when put in the right hands. The tires are soft enough to require some sort of changes in both LSD and suspension over the stock or default-custom settings. Gamers can keep up but typically make mistakes and whine about falling behind. These tires open up more driving lines and allow for more passing.

RS Tires: Bad for sim'ers, ok for tuners, perfect for gamers. Sim racers typically never enter these rooms because cars will rarely break lose the drive wheels making oversteer virtually non existant unless you really screw up a tune. Tuners can still get an edge over the competition if they can reduce braking distances and squeeze out more G's with camber and other settings. Gamers love the tires because they are more forgiving and allow them to stay up front despite using a controller. The driving line is an open free for all and you'll have to protect the entire track if you want to stay out front. Don't expect to pull away from the pack with your perfect driving line.

 

[Vrooman923]

Nearly every car I use online has Racing Soft. I like to wring out every bit of the car and not have the tire be the weak link.

 

[Jacob]

On my maxed out cars (which is about 80% of all cars I own), I use RH-RM, I rarely use RS because they're pretty much overkill. If I just want pure driving pleasure on my semi-tuned cars, I use SS. I'm on a DS3.

But I don't really agree with the fact that Racing tires remove a bit of the fun. I find that my maxed out Skyline R32 with RM tires is lots of fun.

 

[Jack002]

I upgrade the tires a full generation set. If they come with sports-hard, I put on racing-hard. If they're racing-hard I go to racing-soft.

 

[Wyvern_64]

Dirt.

 

[Cavallo Rosso]

I must admit, I'm horrible with Sports tires, even the Sports softs. I race online every day and do well, especially in the 600-635 PP range. But when I race a production car with Sports tires I'm all over the place. If I'm fast with a racing car, then why am I terrible with a production stock car? I don't crash or slide off into the gravel, I'm usually on the road, but the other drivers just fly past me !

 

[boredgunner]

Usually racing soft tires because the sports and comfort tires suck.

 

[BroncosXR8]

I always use Sports Hard for production cars, just to give a control factor.
To me its like going to a track day and putting on a set of R-spec street legal tyres.

For Racers its Racing Hards.

Sometimes in a highly tuned production car I will use Sports Softs, but that is rarely.

Calan_svc has great doc on what tyres suit what cars. What may suprise most of you is that the tyres that ACTUALLY suit the cars are a much lower compound than what you are using, most production cars are in the Comfort Medium-Comfort Soft range. Hence why I use Sports Hards as I track tyre.

 

[W3H5]

What ever it comes with, no?

This^. However they come is how I use them.

 

[fishbig17]

Heavilly depends on the car for me, I take it to the track and if it feels "right", I leave the stock tyres. If the car is all over the place I don't hesitate to upgrade. F40 would be a good example, it's simply too slow and understeery on sports hard. Online is another story though.

 

[C_Raccoon23]

I use whatever the car comes with, but if I decide to put a different set of tires on the car I never go higher than Sports Softs.