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Originally Posted by briers
I put it down to the softer compound, tread design and thinner 225 instead of 255 track.
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You've got significantly less rubber connecting you to the road now. If you suddenly switched to 225 summer tyres you'd probably be saying the same thing.
We had this debate some months ago about whether thinner tyres were the right thing to do. I firmly believe it is not the right thing. The only instance when the thinner tyre is good is in proper snow, all other conditions (ie 99.9% of the time the tyres will be on the car) the proper size rears are better.
I put my winters (255 rears) on last weekend and have found the grip levels to be much better than I was expecting, from a standing start in the wet, I'd even say there was more grip than the Contis that just came off.