I can wait till March. I was driving through heavy rain on Monday and had plenty of grip with my P-Zeros to sustain 80-100mph speeds.

 

Thread depth is just one of many criteria for tires. I've also got a few oldies in the garage, and seen the tires degrade based on wear, rot, time out on age, sometimes also the number or heat cycles or general feel... Sometimes they just start getting loud too... My 991 came with original tires that looked mint and had little mileage, they were rocks... When I replaced them (after a lurid slide where there should not have been any issues) it was raining, and I kid you not, the *new* non-scrubbed-in Michelins were already better on the greasy wet road than the original heat cycled rock hard tires in the dry (and cold)...

The way someone explained this to me long ago is that any able-bodied person can push the brake pedal hard enough to trigger ABS. The single most important criteria of braking distance (irrelevant of speed) is the quality of the rubber that meets the road. A top quality new tire only needs to stop you 1 ft shorter than a ****ty tire for you to have a nice day and avoid a $$$ accident. One single time and the tire paid for themselves. And that's just breaking. Let alone cornering, traction etc... If you are in any doubt, you buy tires. That's how I roll (ha), I'm cheap with everything else, but not tires or brakes...

 

So, just for an update. I ordered the MPSS and they were delivered, but decided to wait until the MP 4 as they are due shortly. They are showing up on tirerack. I don't drive too much during the winter anyway. Anyone order them yet?

 

I ordered them. This was my point on page 1 of this thread.

 

Anyone running wider tires then factory on there wide body 991's ? Id like to bump up the tire widths on my targa4S and thinking about 265's upfront and 325 in the rear, Cup2'S. Curious to hear your guys thoughts that own wide body cars.