johnny1423

http://www.vredestein.com/Banden_Ban...sionID=9334528

Wellardmac

Yes. I have even visited their factory, attended a tire building course and built tires with them.

I have never used their tires, as they're hard to find over here, but their reputation is for high performance, high quality tires. You will not be surprised to find them on higher end cars than a Porsche.

...if I remember correctly they didn't sell the correct size for Porsches last time I looked (even though they claimed to supply Porsche when I visited them back in '99)

johnny1423

i heard they are the eom tires or lambos and astin martins...true???

Wellardmac

yup... they certainly used to be. Not sure if they still are.

When I was there they claimed to make the spare tires for Porsche, but I don't think my spare is one of theirs.

They have very nice facilities, some very talented people and care very much about performance and design - as you can see just by looking at their tires. They are very innovative not only in their tires designs, but also their manufacturing processes. They have a state of the art facility.

Their quality control is very good. If I could find the right tires and dealer I wouldn't hesitate to put them on my car.

ArneeA

I had the ULTRACs on my E46 M3. Good tires...good grip though not comparable to PS2's or the likes... The Sessantas may be better comparables to the PS2's, Pzero's, etc.

They were noisy, however...

Wellardmac

..interesting, they claimed to put a lot of work into low noise designs.

Bijan

Wellardmac is right, their sizes are limited. My collapsible spare was from them on a previous Porsche,
http://www.vredestein.nl/Banden_Band...ionID=44953120

greenjt

They make some very nice tires for cycling.

ReidN

They have the BEST performance snow tires on the market. They even come in larger wheel sizes.

Phil G.

Had a set on my 10 speed that lasted forever. Don't know a thing about their auto tires, however.

ArneeA

Yeah the ULTRACs were noisy compared to the ContiSport2, PS2, or Nitto555 that I had before.

Wellardmac

The comment about snow tires makes sense - I saw them making their snow tires and the compounds are incredibly soft and loaded with silica - makes for excellent grip and excellent hysteresis.