Loss of Control

[AndyL61]

I'm sure that's the case, but I suspect it's a question of where you are. The further south you are, the more acceptable the factory tyres are likely to be. For example, I'd not even contemplate staying on summer tyres where we are, no matter how good they were in conditions for which they are best. I don't think anyone would blame MG for not specifically having Scottish conditions in mind when considering the global reach of their cars, although they are very popular here.

I'm just south of Manchester so not south of England. But I take the point of northern climate can be a lot wetter and a bit colder. You're right, they can't take climatic conditions into consideration. So the tyres are fine for most of the world for most of the time. You can't expect anymore than that , and if you want to change them to suit more extreme conditions then that's your option.

 

[Rolfe]

I'd quite like to sell my Contis because I've driven a winter and a summer on the Goodyears and I don't want to change back. But will anyone who is close enough to collect actually want them? Maybe someone who mostly drives in town, at sea level, and doesn't come into the hills?

 

[Davn]

Personally, I've never had any problems that could be attributed to the standard tyres. 15k in all weathers.?

Yea I'm the same no issues in 29k miles

 

[Rolfe]

Well, there's a set for sale in the classifieds if anyone wants them.

 

[AndyL61]

Once my original tyres are worn out I will be replacing with Michelin E Premacy. Got a thing about Michelins . ?

 

[fnegroni]

For those who have not experience any issues on the standard tyres. I hear you. In the 5k miles I had them, most of the time they were ok.

But when they let go suddenly, it was a nightmare.

Why do some people complain and some not?

I speculate the answer is in what I mentioned in my post.

These are made by continental or Bridgestone in their Chinese factories to a different compound and construction specification.

Which I would argue translates in inconsistent product quality.

If you are lucky, you get a set that is just about meh

If you are not so lucky, you get one or more rubbish bits of rubber.

Honestly you have to try driving this car with proper tyres. It will open your eyes to what this car can do.

 

[Tuareg]

Why do some people complain and some not?

Different driving techniques, different environments, different weathers, different pressures and combinations of these and other factors. The tyres will have exactly the same compounds and consistencies but the appications will be different through these external factors.

 

[Robf]

I'd quite like to sell my Contis because I've driven a winter and a summer on the Goodyears and I don't want to change back. But will anyone who is close enough to collect actually want them? Maybe someone who mostly drives in town, at sea level, and doesn't come into the hills?

I was going to ask how you were getting on with the all climates in the summer, I have the continental all seasons on the ZS, which has really improved the handling and am thinking of changing the MG4 over befor winter. After the last systems update it appears much easier to overpower the rear if a bit heavy on the accelerator, even in normal mode.

 

[Rolfe]

I didn't actually have any trouble with the Contis other than a single fishtail which could easily have been my fault. I changed them because they're summer tyres and summer tyres don't do well here in winter. In fact it wasn't a severe winter and they might have been OK, but I like the confidence of having winter boots on anyway.

This is the first time I've tried all season tyres and maybe it wasn't a great test of them because of the mild weather but the main thing is they were fine in the summer, I wasn't itching to get summer tyres back on by April as I used to be with the full winter tyres on the Golf. So the Contis are just taking up space.

 

[Kithmo]

I don't know if it's anything to do with it, or if it's even still a thing these days, but you used to have to bed tyres in by driving carefully for the first two or three hundred miles.

 

[Archev]

I don't know if it's anything to do with it, or if it's even still a thing these days, but you used to have to bed tyres in by driving carefully for the first two or three hundred miles.

I still do that - but the the speeds I travel at I don’t think it matters ?

 

[fnegroni]

I don't know if it's anything to do with it, or if it's even still a thing these days, but you used to have to bed tyres in by driving carefully for the first two or three hundred miles.

I did. It didn’t matter.

 

[Rufus2005]

I had a near death experience when my MG4 EV fishtailed down the motorway. I was doing 60 with cruise control on and suddenly hit by a hailstorm. I thought traction control would have automatically disconnected cruise control but it didn’t . Should it have? I had to manually switch off cruise which gave me control back. This all happened in a matter of seconds!
Also recently going round a slow bend and slowly (due to lost confidence in the cars handling) the back end skipped out again. I along with my passengers got a real fright as it was totally unexpected at the speed I was doing.
Anyone else had similar experience? Seriously thinking of getting rid of the car as I have no confidence in its road handling.

I had similar recently, nearly lost it into the barrier while joining a dual carriageway from the roundabout. It just gave up grip super easily and oversteered big time. I've also had it going round corners in the wet relatively slowly too, on one occasion I was convinced I had a puncture but I didn't. Looking forward to replacing these stock tyres.

 

[Rolfe]

The one time it happened to me was also entering a dual carriageway from a roundabout. I might have been overtaking a white van at the time too...

The time I thought I had a puncture, actually I'd forgotten to switch off LKA.

 

[Rufus2005]

The one time it happened to me was also entering a dual carriageway from a roundabout. I might have been overtaking a white van at the time too...

The time I thought I had a puncture, actually I'd forgotten to switch off LKA.

Yeah there was no warning, the loss of grip seemed totally disproportionate to the speed I was accelerating at.

 

[Rolfe]

I didn't perceive it as a loss of grip, although that's what must have happened. Basically the rear wheels were trying to overtake the front wheels. It's actually something the dealer warned me about when I picked the car up. He said the car would recover and it wasn't actually dangerous.

I travel that way quite often, and I'm quite careful exiting that roundabout now. It's one of these slightly awkward ones that was an afterthought installed because a bunch of new houses had been built. Previously the road simply changed from single carriageway to dual carriageway at that point.

 

[Ian Key]

Some of the unexpected loss of grip is because we have all become used to front wheel drive cars where to get out of a skid you apply a bit of power. Rear wheel drive you take your foot off the accelerator.

Some of us oldies will remember the old Michelin X tyres. They would last for many tens of thousands of miles but that was because the rubber was that hard it didn't give any grip either. The fun we used to have in getting the back end to slide around in under powered cars ?

 

[Rip Van]

Some of the unexpected loss of grip is because we have all become used to front wheel drive cars where to get out of a skid you apply a bit of power. Rear wheel drive you take your foot off the accelerator.

Some of us oldies will remember the old Michelin X tyres. They would last for many tens of thousands of miles but that was because the rubber was that hard it didn't give any grip either. The fun we used to have in getting the back end to slide around in under powered cars ?

I used Klebers on my taxi. Like concrete. Lasted longer than anything else though.?

 

[tsedge]

I have had this happen (still on original tyres - damn things just won't wear out! ?).

On a damp motorway on-ramp with a bend, light acceleration, suddenly the back slid out 4-5 feet and I had to catch it with steering and coming off the power.

Was pretty pulse-inducing and had someone been abreast, I would have hit them.

That's the worst, a couple of more minor traction breakaways but nothing too bad.

 

[fnegroni]

I have had this happen (still on original tyres - damn things just won't wear out! ?).

On a damp motorway on-ramp with a bend, light acceleration, suddenly the back slid out 4-5 feet and I had to catch it with steering and coming off the power.

Was pretty pulse-inducing and had someone been abreast, I would have hit them.

That's the worst, a couple of more minor traction breakaways but nothing too bad.

Of course. You adjusted your driving and expectations to their level of grip. ?

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