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Postby Blugg » Fri May 26, 2006 6:35 pm

Just wondering if there's any difference in 'Made in country models'.

Explaination: These GS-D3s, are they made locally? Or is their a Made-in-Thailand GS-D3 that local tire shops try to palm off at cheap prices. And the only time you find out is when you break traction :roll:
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Postby AJ » Fri May 26, 2006 6:48 pm

have a squiz at the sidewall, it'll tell you where they were made & what the build date is blugg :wink:
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Postby Blugg » Fri May 26, 2006 6:52 pm

Ok so apparently there aren't many Made in Germany GS-D3s anymore. Anyone has any experiences with the Thailands ones?

Or should I just settle for Toyo T1-S
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Postby Charlie Brown » Fri May 26, 2006 7:18 pm

Blugg wrote:Ok so apparently there aren't many Made in Germany GS-D3s anymore. Anyone has any experiences with the Thailands ones?

Or should I just settle for Toyo T1-S


Why not settle for the best tyre to suit the MX5 and get the Precedas :?:
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Postby AJ » Fri May 26, 2006 7:21 pm

hehehe.........ya reckon if we nag 'em long enuff they'll learn CB??? :lol:
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Postby Blugg » Fri May 26, 2006 7:56 pm

Yeah I would like them Precedas but the I hath not much moola to spend on these rubber rings.
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Postby EGG80X » Fri May 26, 2006 8:24 pm

I had GS-D3, both different compands....

The one made in thailand is a harder compand is totally crap and offers no grip

Then GS-D3 made in germany was a softer compound and its a bit noiser then the thailand.... and they do offer decent grip
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Postby Adam_NAclubman » Fri May 26, 2006 9:23 pm

My cousin went from AVS 102's on his 535iS (all new bushes, new sway bars, new Bilsteins, headwork, exhaust etc) to German GSD3's on our tyre guy's advice (almost as much grip, much better wear rate, much cheaper) and after running them in a bit we were VERY impressed with them.


40 minutes of hills hammering (and for a biiig car it really does hammer) showed no sign of the tyres overheating and losing grip, clocked one of his best times on one of our routes and was able to go hard enough that his EBC Greenstuff pads caught fire (10 inch flames inside the wheels).

I was suitably impressed with the F1's
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Postby Blugg » Fri May 26, 2006 9:55 pm

EGG80X wrote:I had GS-D3, both different compands....

The one made in thailand is a harder compand is totally crap and offers no grip

Then GS-D3 made in germany was a softer compound and its a bit noiser then the thailand.... and they do offer decent grip



Really!? Are the Thailand ones THAT bad?! Anyone else care to share Thai GS-D3 experiences?
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Postby Blugg » Sat May 27, 2006 12:51 am

The thing is from my googling, MOST Goodyear tires are now made in Thailand. For obvious reasons of cost and plentiful rubber.

However (also from googling), only the 18' GS-D3s are made in Germany, anything smaller comes from Thailand. I'm not sure if there's a \"Made in Aust\" version.
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Postby mazlot » Sat May 27, 2006 7:45 am

I have 215 40 16's on the 5, as well as 225 40 18's on my other car, both made in Germany, both very good tyres, good grip, low noise, etc.

I was told all GS-D3's are made in Germany, not sure how true that is, but it is in my case 8)

I too have heard the bad Thailand stories, mainly in respect to European cars.
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Postby Blugg » Sat May 27, 2006 6:51 pm

Went for Proxes 4 in the end 8)
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Postby Inf3ct0R » Mon May 29, 2006 9:02 pm

wait a sec...... I got 1:17:58 @ wakies with gs-d3's that were made in thailand, they are bloody soft, I gone thru two sets and they each lasted 15,000km...

there are two kind, a GS-D2 and GS-D3, the D2 is the super hard compound, D3 = super soft!


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Really!? Are the Thailand ones THAT bad?! Anyone else care to share Thai GS-D3 experiences?


Yes they are EFFING SHOCKING!

The Thailand Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3's are like Bob Jane Aussie All Rounders or other tyres of that ilk. Shame on them for charging people through the nose and branding their tyres as the "flagship performance model"

Good to see you didn't buy them 8)

...I think I put up a post on country of manufacture a while back...hmmm
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Postby Blugg » Mon May 29, 2006 9:36 pm

The D2s are shocking...worse then the D3s. A friend of mine ran D2s and threw them away with 80% thread on it.

I guess to be on the safe side, the Toyos are good for the semi-budget conscious. If I had money I'd buy Michelins of course :P
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Postby Garry » Tue May 30, 2006 10:46 am

Are the Michelins that much more expensive than all the others? I got a set of 16\" Precedas 2 weeks ago for $217 each which sounded quite reasonable to me. My Toyo T1S's were around $200, the Dunlop Dizezza's just under $200 and the poxy Turanzas were around $260 from memory.
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