Federal 595's.. Anyone use them?

[Cup_Phil]

I need some decent track-capable tyres for the clio.
The rainsports I had were fantastic on the road but got hot and fell apart on track

I was hoping for R888's but in 205/50/15 which I run on the 2118's I can't find any anywhere

A048's are £800 a set - so they're out my price range - especially for getting abused on track
Then stumbled on federal 595's - about £400 for a set from tweeks

I watched that ring video of the megane 250 doing a sub 8 minute and he said he was using them - anyone got any personal experience of them?

 

[Cup_Phil]

Foook just seen tyretraders.com do the federals for £312 delivered!!

I might have to give them a go at that price

 

[montana]

i had them on my previous car (scoob) and they were fine, very affordable too as you have seen!

 

[Fletcher]

Why not go for some R888 195/50/15?

 

[AdamR]

I've got some and they seem decent (copy and paste from another thread):


I've not used 888s before, but have used Dunlop DJ01s (which I believe are the older version of these: http://www.demon-twe...nlop+track+tyre). The Federals seem very very nearly as good in the dry, maybe not QUITE as stiff in the sidewalls though and seemed to 'go off' a bit faster. I am guessing this is due to them being new (deep tread) and having a few more grooves. Wear rate was normal too, no faster than I've found before on other tyres.

However, the 'downside' of the grooves in dry seems to have a bonus - they were amazing in the rain. Had a session of instruction booked and the heavens opened - even the instructor commented on how good they were! Rained so hard I had to have the wipers on full speed (http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?579064-Video-Cadwell-Park-Thursday-12th-May), but still was only about 6 sec slower over a 2 minute lap at that point of the day.

Need to add a bit of negative camber up front as the outside edges wore a little bit extra, but very impressed so far

 

[Cup_Phil]

I'm running 2degrees of neg camber - so that should be ok

I don't think its the 195/205 that's causing me problems to find R888's - no-one seems to have any in stock
And when they can get them they want £120-140 per wheel - which is a LOT more than than the £312 for federals

I prefer 205's as it makes the car a little more settled - on 195's I found it quite jittery