what do you use for tires?
01-30-2010, 12:30 PM
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I have been driving on Michelin Pilot Sport AS tires in the same sizes you are buying. They are giving me good service and wear if I don't overinflate them. I did that once and wore one of them right down to the air and then drove home on my spare. Keep the air down to the mid to lower 30's.
I have been buying these tires for my 928 on eBay. I buy them with at least 6/32 tread or usually better, and occasionally new or very near new with no wear showing. I have been buying them for no more than about half price and usually much less. I watch the listings occasionally and when one comes up that is my size and has enough tread, and the price is right, I buy it. I have two or three sets in storage for future use. I don't drive too agressively or too fast, so the age does not worry me.
There is one of these for the rear listed now with 5 to 6/32 tread, but actually I think it has a little more from the picture. Its around $50. That is not too bad for a $240 tire that will still give you about 40 to 50% of its useful life.
One thing I would caution about tires listed on eBay is that used tires are usually listed with a missleading statement about tread remaining. These tires come new with 10/32 inch of total tread. When they wear down to 5/32 they will be advertised as 50% life remanining, when in fact they have less. That is because the bottom 2/32 is not useable. When they wear down to the wear marker, which is 1/16 deep, they are worn out. There is not 20% life left when they have 2/32 remaining. So, when they say 60 or 70% life remaining and say or show that they have 6 or 7/32 tread remaining, do the math yourself. In that case, for 7/32, they will have 5/8 life remaining not 7/10. So, 50% tread remaining is not 50% life remaining.
These AS tires are still not agressive enough to drive in much snow since they are so wide and the car is relatively light they are still pretty squirly in the white stuff. They are really good in the wet though, as I have found with Michelin tires generally.
Jerry Feather
I have been buying these tires for my 928 on eBay. I buy them with at least 6/32 tread or usually better, and occasionally new or very near new with no wear showing. I have been buying them for no more than about half price and usually much less. I watch the listings occasionally and when one comes up that is my size and has enough tread, and the price is right, I buy it. I have two or three sets in storage for future use. I don't drive too agressively or too fast, so the age does not worry me.
There is one of these for the rear listed now with 5 to 6/32 tread, but actually I think it has a little more from the picture. Its around $50. That is not too bad for a $240 tire that will still give you about 40 to 50% of its useful life.
One thing I would caution about tires listed on eBay is that used tires are usually listed with a missleading statement about tread remaining. These tires come new with 10/32 inch of total tread. When they wear down to 5/32 they will be advertised as 50% life remanining, when in fact they have less. That is because the bottom 2/32 is not useable. When they wear down to the wear marker, which is 1/16 deep, they are worn out. There is not 20% life left when they have 2/32 remaining. So, when they say 60 or 70% life remaining and say or show that they have 6 or 7/32 tread remaining, do the math yourself. In that case, for 7/32, they will have 5/8 life remaining not 7/10. So, 50% tread remaining is not 50% life remaining.
These AS tires are still not agressive enough to drive in much snow since they are so wide and the car is relatively light they are still pretty squirly in the white stuff. They are really good in the wet though, as I have found with Michelin tires generally.
Jerry Feather
01-30-2010, 12:49 PM
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My wife has put 20,000 miles on a set of Bridgestone pole position 960 AS radials, stock 16 inch rims, and they still have lots of tread left. I really like those tires and am hoping to buy another set of them for an S4 rim set up this month.
01-30-2010, 04:08 PM
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For summer tire try Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...r_spec_page_11
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...r_spec_page_11
01-30-2010, 09:19 PM
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Damon hit the nail on the head. For 'jus cruzin' it's sometimes hard to justify $mega$ ultra-performance summer tires that don't last very long. For 99% of the driving I do, a set of H-rated 22's would be more than enough. It's that 1%, when braking or evasive steering is involved, when the costs seem suddenly worth it to me. YNMV, of course.
