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The Bridgestone Potenza RE950s have to be much much better in order for me to pay $144 more for a set of 4 over the Avids.
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Yoko? Try Falken
I put Yoko AVS dbs on my car all around. $500 installed, summer 2001. Good handling and quiet for the first 10k miles, then wore quickly and got louder as well. Replaced @ 22k. My first z rated tires, and felt I should get more than 22k miles. I am aggressive (curves, not skids) about 10% of the time.
Decided to go a different route. Got new rims, 18", with Falken ZE512s. One pair fairly new, one fairly worn. Bought a new pair @ $112 each, put them on the front. They are as quiet as the 16" Yoko dbs, and corner better, with less sidewall roll, and they come with a 30k mile treadwear WARRANTY! Very happy--we will see how they wear. btw, I bought them from CKAuto. Shipping $15/tire to CA. Chris Archer, ckauto1@yahoo.com Takes credit cards, ships immediately. Sells other brands as well. |
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mntnsvx, I strongly recomend getting another pair of new tires to replace the worn ones. The different traction will shred your tranny to pieces. With AWD, tires should only be replaced in fours. Two new tires are much cheaper than a transmissionrebuild.
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everyone says that its bad to change only two tires, and i agree with the excess heat that it would probably cause. But most awd cars, the front tires wear about twice as fast, wouldn't that cause excess heat to, or is it NOT a big deal??
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2 tires vs 4
"mntnsvx, I strongly recomend getting another pair of new tires to replace the worn ones. The different traction will shred your tranny to pieces. With AWD, tires should only be replaced in fours. Two new tires are much cheaper than a transmissionrebuild."
I appreciate the concern, but I left out a couple of points. 1) The "worn" tires have less than 5000 miles on them. In 5000 more miles, the wear difference will be miniscule. 2) I live in the Southern California Desert, where I drive on very dry, often warm pavement 99% of the time. (High Friction) Traction differences are much higher with lower friction. Also, we have a limited slip differential, don't we? If we are talking about major traction differences, our front and rear ends are not locked together, by design. 3) Since an SVX is 90/10 front/rear power division in normal driving conditions, and 65/35 (60/40?) weight division front/back, doesn't an SVX inherently have a traction differential, as the back wheels normally are under less power and less weight? 4) I have a 96, after the FHI upgraded tranny filter, etc, and far fewer breakdowns/rebuilds since. Also, aren't we reapproaching tire voodoo here? I remember a thread where one the netmembers was trying to get his tires to the same profile so they would have the same circumference/revs per mile, and therefore less tranny wear. He had to have something like a 12 psi difference between front and back to accomplish this. How many of us control our tire pressure to protect our transmissions? Thanks again for the concern? Other input? Porter? Mychailo? |
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