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Old 10th August 2015, 19:43   #16
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Re: Bridgestone A290 Vs Bridgestone Turanza Vs Michelin XM2

I have used both Bridgestone turanza ( on Palio S10), Michelin XM2 (on City )
Out of these Michelin is a much better tyre in all aspects except toughness. They are frequently prone to punctures when driven on bad roads. Turanza not as grippy as XM2, but more resistant to punctures and side wall damages, so select according to usage conditions.
For bad roads , another option i would recommend is MRF ZLO. I have used it (185/70 R 14) on my Swift which I have driven extensively on bad roads of Maharashtra ( in places like miraj, ghat sections such as Fonda ghat etc) without any side wall damage and minimal punctures.
The grip levels with these tyres are very good, especially in the wet, infact the grip levels are comparable to Turanzas!!
Also these cost much less than the other 2 tyres.

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Old 10th August 2015, 23:10   #17
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Re: Bridgestone A290 Vs Bridgestone Turanza Vs Michelin XM2

If you are willing to look away from the list then I would recommend the Continental Comfort Contact 5 or the CC5. It is made in India, for local road conditions, I have them on my Swift Zxi in the exact same size of 185/70R14 for nearly 8 months now and driven daily for 10-15 kms over roads no different than those in Bombay. The are quiet, grippy and very comfortable going over the holes

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I am planning to upgrade my tyre to 185/70 R14 88H and have narrowed down between Bridgestone and Michelin.

I am looking for tyres which could handle the rough roads of Mumbai filled with potholes.
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Old 11th August 2015, 03:10   #18
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Re: Bridgestone A290 Vs Bridgestone Turanza Vs Michelin XM2

I have a Ritz with Yokohama A-drives. These are excellent budget tyres. Quite (no screeching around), good grip and strong. In fact they are good enough to have won me 3 autocross events (i.e. driving like a maniac on dirt) with their grip and linear and progressive nature (i.e., when pushed hard, they give excellent feedback and do not snap on the driver, thus making them safe and very forgiving).
Even after literally abusing them, they still go strong with no obvious signs of damage.
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I have them on my Innova too. Totally in love with them.

If you want more grip, then the Yokohama C-drives are a good option. At a higher cost than the A-drives though.

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Old 21st September 2015, 20:35   #19
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Re: Maruti Ritz: My wheel & tyre upgrades - settled down after 4th set of rims

Love the final look of the wheels though the red lip looked good, too. Even I just got a set of alloy wheels for my new Swift with ET 28. No wheel arch fouling probably because the arches are larger. Just wondering if the suspension, steering and bearings will be OK.
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Re: Maruti Ritz: My wheel & tyre upgrades - settled down after 4th set of rims

Hello everyone, hope you are well.

I didn't update the thread for 5 years but let me tell you, some more iterations were made on the wheels and Ritz. And finally, I stopped after hitting the sweet spot.

It was January 2017 when I returned from England after completing my higher studies. And it was time that our beloved Lancer needed a new set of tyres. Lancer was then running on 185/70R13 Federal SS731 tyres on stock 13” steel rims. As Ritz tyre size goes perfectly on lancer ( stock 175/80R13 --> 185/70R14), I decided to get new tyres on Ritz and donate the still good existing tyres to Lancer as it is our low runner. I went for the same Michelin XM2 in the same size for Ritz. Meanwhile, I got an idea to change color from matt black to silver as now I wanted the car to look clean and stock. Well, it was the time when OEMs started giving black/machined black wheels as standard in many cars, but I was done with the black looks.

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Traded off Lancer's existing tyres + 13” stock rims and put existing Michelin tyres on Lancer compatible Renault Logan 14” steel rims and mounted on Ritz temporarily. I started exploring the option for powder coating. I talked to a few shops that do it, checked their setups and gave the wheels to one of them. The guy said he would remove old paint with chemicals, taking out bare metal and later will do silver color powder coating.

Two days later, I went to pick up my wheels and got disappointed to see the pathetic finish. There were hard spots like that of welding spatter. Most probably, he didn't cleaned/surfaced them very well. Anyway, I paid him whatever he deserved for the job and got the new Michelin tyres fitted.

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At this time, I wanted to make hub centric rings for Ritz. Hub diameter for Apollo Acelere wheels is 73.1 mm and outer diameter of Ritz hub is 54.1 mm. I created a rough CAD model just for a rough idea of how the rings would look. For the making, I got a mild steel pipe length with appropriate inner and outer diameter from market, mounted it on lathe and made four hub centric rings.

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Few days passed, but that poor paint finish on wheels would bite me every day. I was not happy with it and decided to refinish it. The challenge was to remove the thick powder coating which is quite hard compared to the normal paint. Secondly, now I wanted to do everything by myself (DIY) as I was fed up with poor workmanship of some people I came by. I borrowed die grinder from my uncle and along with a variety of attachments and sandpapers (wet & dry) from market to remove powder coating. Process was very time taking. It needed attention to detail and of course a lot of elbow grease. Finally, a good quality metallic silver aerosol bottle paint did a great job. This time, I could do only one wheel a day compared to all 4 wheels in a day the last time when I painted the wheels matt black. Tip – use gloves while working with sandpapers as after 1 or 2 days , you will start feeling etching in your fingertips, sandpapers cut your skin.

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Wheels were refitted on car. Finish looked way better than that of the dull silver powder coating.

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Going forward to October 2017, our lancer kept growing on me more and more. Decided to swap wheels + tyres. Also, we thought of selling Ritz in near future as firstly, it was already 9 years old diesel car, so was going to be problematic for Delhi-NCR region where I work. Secondly, it had completed 1.5 lac kms mark at that time and still hold good market value in Punjab.

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After swapping the wheels in Lancer, I made another set of hub-centric rings as per Lancer’s 56.1 mm hub outer diameter.

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These were the final looks of Ritz with Renault Logan rims. Hub centric rings are still recommended with non-stock steel rims although for this very iteration/application, I skipped it. Trust me, I felt the slight unevenness in ride because of not using hub centric rings. For your reference, Renault/Nissan rims have hub diameter of 60.1 mm (if I could recall correctly). Good thing about Logan steel rims is its offset which is ET43 which looks rather good. To sum up various wheel offsets, Ritz stock wheel offset = ET50, Hyundai Verna wheels I used were ET46, the Apollo acelere wheels (now on Lancer) have offset of ET38.

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And I think that’s it, about Ritz and its wheels. We sold the Ritz in March 2018 to someone known. We drove the car for 1.67 lac kms. It was a great city car and was very reliable. One can call it a beater car. My dad still misses its high commanding seating, ride quality and great maneuverability. Only sore point I felt was its turbo lag which was irritating. Steering was vague (I drive a Lancer and a Cedia) and overall build quality was just average. Overall a fantastic hatchback.
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