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Since: 29/9/2010
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Hi
i was suprised to see a posting that was so kind to the P4000 tyres on your car, so i looked into the Khamsin. One of the features of this car is the very modern powersteering systems. It is this powersteering that makes your car react well to the P4000 which is a modern tyre designed more for cars like the later XJ Jaguars of the 80's. The XWX is a sports car tyre that will give excellent directional stability and importantly, for a sports car, delivers progressive handling rather than the greater road holding that the P4000 gives due to it's extremly wide foot print suited to breaking and accelerating in a straight line. Which is different to the type of tyre you need for progressive and sporting cornering.
The XWX is a brilliant tyre it would be interesting to know how old your tyres were. on the side of the tyre there is a series of letters and numbers that starts with DOT, at the end of this series of letter and numbers on one side of the tyre there is an oval patch stamped into the tyre which is obviously changable in the tyre mould that chould have 4 number in it. for instance 1209 would mean the 12th week of 2009. if it said 129 that would mean that it was made in the 12th week of 1989. if iot said 129 and there was a triangle or arrow symbol in the panel that would mean 12th week of 1999
Regards
Dougal
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