So im getting new tires next week. looking at 225/45/17 and 255/40/17. Im not looking at super track car tires, but not cheap tires either. z rated for sure,

what do you guys use? and good or bad comments about any specific tire?

duc

 

Sumitomo HTRZIII FTW. Great all around tire and the best bang for the buck IMHO. Summer tire only though which should be fine for you in New Mexico.

 

Bridgestone S02s Unfortunately they don't make them any more. There are a lot of good tires for our cars.

 

Kuhmo... XS's on my '92. 235 and 275 on the standard Cup I rims. They have a wear rating of 180 and they are not kidding!!! The MX's on my '94 I do not really care for, but they have a 220 tread wear rating and I would say that is equally accurate. Lets just say a 180 rating won't get you very far and man they really need to be warm before you get much traction out of them!

 

Kuhmo asx wear rating 320, same sizes as pcar928fan. Not many miles on them yet, but really like the look and feel so far.

 

Michelin PS2. I like 'em!

 

Kumho Ecsta SPT here, been very happy with them.

 

I've been married to Bridgestone for many years, next season I'm switching to BFGoodrich KDW2's. Very reasonably priced and proven performance by some of the open road racers.

 

If you drive your car in temps below 40º there in ABQ, you'll want to look at the all-season options and avoid the super-performance summer-only tires. The real grippy summer rubber gets really slippery when the ground gets cold. I love my PS-2's, but would get the Pilot AS I I was where you are. Our local Costco carries them, BTW.

 

I have had better luck with tires that have wide tread blocks, especially at the shoulder. The 928 is a relatively heavy, relatively powerful car. The tires I've used that had skinny tread patterns have all wound up with scalloped tread. Of course, I drive it pretty hard and usually get only a few thousand miles a set.

My next tires will be Dunlop Direzza Z1's. At Tirerack.com, they are rated pretty good by people with cars similar to the 928 i.e. Corvettes.

 

PS2

Comfortable, quiet, and grip really well.

 

I'm also a fan of the Michelin PS2 tire. Expensive if bought new, but there are good deals on ones with 6-7/32nds tread depth. Wear is OK - not fabulous, but grip is great - street or track, they are fairly quiet for Z rated tires. Sizes in 18" are great - not so good in the smaller wheel diameters.

Gary Knox

 

The PS2 does come in the OP's requested 17" sizes, but there's nothing in the OE 16" sizes for this tire. I really enjoy the ride, the quiet and the handling of the PS2's. The way I drive the car I still get pretty good life out of them.

My car came to me with a set of brand-new BFG Comp TA's on the original flat wheels. This is the tire that was shipped on the car originally. and the seller had been buying the same ones for his replacements. This was the second set he'd purchased for a car that had 22k on the meter when I bought it. That initial-purchase set lasted about 25k for me. They were like rocks, and handled OK but no better. The first set of Pilot MXX-3 was an epiphany for the car, like they were made for each other, but didn't last very long. The PS-2's are a step beyond that, with better handling and ride. The MXX-3's were a shade quieter though. It looks like 15-25k life expectancy for me with the PS-2's, depending on how I drive. I chewed through the first set of fronts in a hurry thanks to DUFO alignment, but the DIY alignment has the set on there now doing much better. Part of that extended life expectancy may be due to my favorite local tire-test road being closed a lot this past year, so no serious early-evening twistie tours to clear the mental cobwebs.

 

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

 

thanks for that info Jerry