Wheels/Tyres: Speed rating / invalid insurance.

[Daim]

Originally Posted by SonyVaio

Hi Daim,

V = 150mph and I concur that a 1.6l car probably would never see that sort of speed unless it was off the edge of a cliff??

I believe a step down from a V is H rated but H only goes upto 130mph, now 130mph I think is not too much of a stretch of being a possibilty for a 1.6 (downhill with the wind??) thus would be pushing the boundries of safety with the trye?

This would call for the need of the tyre rating to one higher - V = 150mph.

Well, H is correct, 130 mph (210 km/h). My car has a minimum speed index (tyres) of H-rating. The 1.6 only T In the C30, the 1.6 has a Vmax of 185 km/h (115 mph) and it is rather hard for that little engine to even get to 120 mph. I'd had to borrow one for 2 days... Autobahn, slightly downhill, tops: 190 km/h (~118 mph) and that was over a VERY long distance. I think the acceleration took something like 30 minutes from normal 120 km/h (75 mph) to that... Where as other engines are quick, that little thing just took soooooo long