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New Tires on my baby
Wow - what a difference new tires make....
took off the old ones Goodyear Eagle GS D2 (65,000kms on them) replaced them with Falken ZE 912 what are others running........ |
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Re: New Tires on my baby
I'm running 245/40/17 General Exclaim UHP's on mine. Soon I'll be putting on a set of Continentals for the trip back to school, mostly to keep the miles off my performance rubber. I really want to try the Dunlop Direzza Star Specs though.
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Re: New Tires on my baby
I had Sumitomu not sure which model, they were great but I don't they're sold in Aus anymore. Still have them on the rear and dodgy Nexen brand on front. I still haven't experienced what an upper range tyre feels like compared to generic
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Re: New Tires on my baby
I have had Bridgestone S02 on for a while. They are a good tyre for the wet and dry, have no trouble out handling me. They have become quite noisy as they wear. Time to change them to something quieter.
Harvey.
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Re: New Tires on my baby
How much you are paying per tire there? (stock size?)
Yesterday I also ordered the same tire as yours. Falken 912 for my dd. I read good things about this and I compare it's "quite" lighter compare to other brands. I will be excited when they come after I put them on the car.
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Re: New Tires on my baby
I have Bridgestone Potenza (standard rims) on the Pearlie. They are pretty damned good, but I don't know what I paid for them. My fave tyres were Pirelli P7000's, but they stopped making them.
I dis have Goodyear Eagle F1's on when I bought it. They were the "Holy ....!" tyres because they would stick and stick and stick and stick.... then just let go when you were going too fast round a corner to fix your error in judgement.
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Re: New Tires on my baby
Got the ZE912 for NZ$995 includes tax (fitted & Balanced & wheel alignment....)
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Re: New Tires on my baby
http://www.bridgestonetire.com/tires...roduct_ID=1050 fr380 came with car, new they work
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Re: New Tires on my baby
I have a set of Falkens on as summer tires and find them very noisy compared to my winter tires. Seems odd to me. I would think the winter tires would be much more noisey than the Falken summer tires. Anyone else find Falkens super noisey.
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Re: New Tires on my baby
Well, I'm not running an SVX anymore. But I can tell ya what I used to run on it and what I am running on the STi now...
SVX: (from first to last set of tires) - BFG "cheap tires that the previous owner had on the car when I got it from the dealership" in 225/55/16 - Kumho Ectsa Supra 712's (225/40/18)... - Kumho Ectsa MX's (225/40/18)... Two sets of these - Falken Azenis (225/50/16) My Autocross tires... (abit noisy after they started wearing down)... ------------------------------------------------------------ STi: - Continental ContiSportContact3's (On ALL 3 sets of wheels and ranging from 245/40/17, 265/35/18, and 285/35/18) - Continental ExtremeContact DW's (245/45/17 - Current Daily Drivers) - Dunlop Star Spec 1 (265/35/18)... The next Autocross / Track tires The Continental ContiSportContact3's are AWESOME TIRES!! They are just alittle pricy for me at the moment ~ Chris
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Re: New Tires on my baby
Quote:
No wonder they come standard on many Porsche, Bimmer and Mercedes cars ~ Chris
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2020 Subaru Outback Touring - Wife's first Subaru 2005 Volvo V70R - 5-cylinder love! :Heart: ** SOLD **1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT Wagon - MOST RELIABLE car I've ever owned ** SOLD **2006Subaru WRXSTi (Former "Boxer4Racing.com / Continential Tire" STi) - Built EJ22t block / EJ207 JDM STi "big port heads" - 9,000rpm MONEY PIT!!! ** SOLD ** 1995 "Tree-Hugger Green" SVX L AWD(5 MT) --- "Gumby" 130K miles #399 in MY95, my original love... |
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Re: New Tires on my baby
I just put on a set of Toyo T1Rs, 225-50-16, NZ$950 fitted, balanced and alignment, very happy.
If you are thinking of geeting Goodyear Eagle F-1s, DON'T, the ones here in NZ are from China and have bad tread separation problems. The problems with the Chinese Goodyears are soo bad they have resorted to putting out a glossy pamphlet to they are just as good as the German Goodyears but only in the context of stopping distance. |
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