High Speed Tires?

[DeltaForce]

I designed a vehicle that is capable of going faster than its tires can withstand. I was wondering, will there be high speed tires in later versions of the game for extremely fast cars? The stock tires seem to be capable of around 300 miles per hour (must be some very high quality sporting tires), but what if we want to go faster?

[Killrob]

I don't quite get what you mean, you can build cars that do 500 km/h+ right now, so where exactly do you need "tires that cope with high speeds"?

[DeltaForce]

Right now the tires are the limiting factor for the car I've designed, because they're consistently failing at around 300 miles per hour. I've adjusted the size of the tires and the rims, but that's only helped to get the car slightly closer to 300, which appears to be a hard limit on tire endurance (I'm using sport tires).

I know something that fast is impracticable for anything except speed runs, but perhaps there could be special high speed tires that are able to endure speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour without failure?

[Killrob]

I still don't see where the problem is? I just made a 350 mph (565 km/h) work alright. Of course it is undrivable, but that's a different story (and supposed to be that way). There is no top speed limit to the tires in the game.

[Der Bayer]

There is an indirect limit: At high speeds you need a huge drive force to withstand air resistance. At some velocity, normal grip provided by gravity is not enough to make a bigger acceleration possible -> wheelspin. If you don't want wheelspin, you need more downforce. But with too much downforce (and thus wheel load) tyres will blow. And I don't think it's a problem that they blow at 500+ kph. The Veyron tyres dont last long at top speed, too.

[Reaper392]

Sometimes I get the same problem too. Some cars will be more than happy to go to 350 or 400mph, whereas some cars will complain about the tyres no matter what changes are applied to them. I can't remember if this was before or after the latest update, so that may have changed things a little. If I can find some examples I will post them later if you want

[nialloftara]

Lower the sidewall and increase the quality.

[bundyaxl]

Another solution is to slow down and take it easy man.

Whats the rush?

[Reaper392]

Another solution is to slow down and take it easy man.

Whats the rush?

Sorry I don't understand these words, what do they mean?

Lower the sidewall and increase the quality.

I tried that many times, sometimes it works and sometimes the tyres blow on a seemingly random basis between cars (although there is probably a sound reason somewhere)

[VosNox]

I've found that running AWD fixes it more often than not.

[strop]

I've just come back to testing myself, and haven't yet encountered any issues (outside of reasonable limits) with any of my 500km/h+ cars (including the ones that actually have good reliability)... is this a body specific issue? Which ones are you having issues with?

[Der Bayer]

It is somewhat body specific because wider tyres have a higher load capability.

[xABSOLUTIONx]

i've just tested on big mid engine body, couldn't get past 430km/h with everything +15 and semi-slicks

[strop]

I've encountered similar, but don't think it's unreasonable. In that case, chances are because of excessive load on rear tyres (your weight distribution is going to be something close to 30:70). Making the car awd, as mentioned, goes a long way to alleviating this but in the case of mid engined bodies this will reduce engine bay space. I can happily get theoretical speeds of 488+