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Tire recommendations- KUHMO. TireRack has a special price on KUHMO H rated tires for 48.00. It hasnt snowed yet but I expect them to do as well as the others I had on the car which were the original OEM tires, Sumitomo , Visa By Falken, and now the KUHMOs. The KUHMO gives up a little in the handling department but considering that an SVX is 10-15 years old the car is not going to handle as when they were new. My co-worker has KUHMO on his Audi A8 Quatro and also consideres it to be the best tire he had.
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ever hear of Michelin?
the Michelin Pilot XGT Z4 is v rated and was wondering if anyone has any bad things to say about it?
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I just bought a set of Yokohama Avid Vs and am happy with them. They seem good in the rain, fairly quiet, and were reasonably priced ($84 apieice from tirereack).
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I've been driving on my just about dead Bridgestone Potenza RE070s for about 4 days now and they're awesome. Even tho they have a 140 treadwear rating it'd be a good choice for those of us with 17s and want to do some autoX/daily driving.
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I would recommend against the yokohama avid v4s. thats what i have now and they are decent for the price, but not overly sticky; I can make them scream when I don't think the tires should even be making noise.
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you will get the same noise out of a H rated tire i have fusion HRi's on my car and the are so noisey i thought my bearings were bad
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Tire and wear and noise. Yup I have had Yoko db's wear out and ContiExtremes wear out. Both ended up with a washboard type of wear and every so noisy. Sounds just like a bad wheel bearing, except the noise moves with the tire. Beav suggested to me to find another shop for wheel alignment and he was correct. I find it frustrating that alignment is not straight forward and the other shops I was using were not so good at SVX alignment. They do a fine job for my other cars.. A buddy of mine says he has done alignment with a level and a piece of string!!!! Anyway, the last alignment I had done was at the expensive Subaru Porche dealer down the street. This was back in the spring after I sanded off the washboard tire wear on the Conti's. The tire wear was acceptable after this was done. I am really glad to hear you like the snow and rain handling for the Falken’s. So I will see how they do this winter. I too look for tires that will be more of a GT with great all weather handling and not to race with. The question is this???? Do different tire brands require different alignment????
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I've been real happy with my V-rated Cooper Lifeliner SLE Touring tires. Cost was a tick over $500 with balancing, mounting, old tire disposal fee, yada-yada. Quiet, fine ride and handling, with no discernible tread wear after about a year of daily driving on curvy Appalachian roads. Don't know about snow, tho'.
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Dave have you ever done a wheel alignment at your dads? How hard is it to tighten up the bolts to the front strut from underneath the SVX? You know, the alignment is done and now the bolts have to be tightened so nothing moves. I found these bolts pretty loose when I replaced the front strut the last time. Is it possible to get a torque wrench in that space? Take care, John
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Falken Z512
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Never done my own alignment. I've only taken it in for a pro alignment.
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I always whack 'em with my 1/2" impact wrench, just like the pros do.
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