Michelin Tires
06-22-2011, 06:47 PM
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Michelin Tires
Ok so I need rear tires and Discount has them less than Tirerack @$543.00 total of $1086.00 but I can get a full set of the new Super Sport for $1230.00 with the 4 tire $70 discount. I think it is obvious.
06-23-2011, 04:01 PM
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when will they have them to fit 20"s
damon - love the oz rims, but tps/tpms is out of whack - suggestions?
damon - love the oz rims, but tps/tpms is out of whack - suggestions?
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06-30-2011, 12:58 PM
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06-30-2011, 02:33 PM
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Super Sports are the way to go from everyone I've talked to.
06-30-2011, 09:29 PM
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Here's another vote for the Super Sports. My GTS came with PS2s. I managed to wipe out all four in the first 2700 miles. (OK, OK, 5 DE and 2 AX days included.) I replaced them with PSS's.
I'm now just over 5000 miles. I have two DE's and two AX's on the PSS's. It's too soon to know if they live up to the mileage claims, but they ride well. I'd rate their ride as being as good or better than the PS2's. On the track/AX course they feel as good or better than the PS2's. My times are better in AX (based upon how I'm doing in my class) and I feel more confident on the track. Throw in the fact that the PSS's are presently cheaper than the PS2's, although I doubt that will last, and for me it's a no brainer. I'm thinking very seriously about buy another set of PSS's before the prices go up and just holding onto them until they're needed -- which won't be very long.
DMoore
'11 GTS
'10 P4S
I'm now just over 5000 miles. I have two DE's and two AX's on the PSS's. It's too soon to know if they live up to the mileage claims, but they ride well. I'd rate their ride as being as good or better than the PS2's. On the track/AX course they feel as good or better than the PS2's. My times are better in AX (based upon how I'm doing in my class) and I feel more confident on the track. Throw in the fact that the PSS's are presently cheaper than the PS2's, although I doubt that will last, and for me it's a no brainer. I'm thinking very seriously about buy another set of PSS's before the prices go up and just holding onto them until they're needed -- which won't be very long.
DMoore
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'10 P4S
06-30-2011, 09:36 PM
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Here's another vote for the Super Sports.[...] times are better in AX (based upon how I'm doing in my class) and I feel more confident on the track. Throw in the fact that the PSS's are presently cheaper than the PS2's, although I doubt that will last, and for me it's a no brainer. I'm thinking very seriously about buy another set of PSS's before the prices go up and just holding onto them until they're needed -- which won't be very long.
Gary
06-30-2011, 09:47 PM
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Gary:
You're welcome. It was less than three months between "brand new PS2's" and "brand new "PSS's." I certainly hope I can keep the current set of tires a bit longer. Really, it was a sort of perfect storm. Two quick DE's, a couple of AX's, and then a 3-day event on the Fontana "Roval" in which I was hitting 140+ before diving into a tight turn. By the end of that the tires were history. I burned through my stock front pads in the same amount of time...
Apropos of a different thread, you mentioned the drive from Antelope Valley to Riverside. I recently made the reciprocal drive, from Redlands to Willow Springs on the same route, obviously Pearblossom Hwy. Don't you just love the long straights where passing is prohibited?? Aargh! CalTrans did the same thing on 395 north of Adelanto. I think it added 1/2 hour to my drive to Mammoth.
DMoore
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'10 P4S
You're welcome. It was less than three months between "brand new PS2's" and "brand new "PSS's." I certainly hope I can keep the current set of tires a bit longer. Really, it was a sort of perfect storm. Two quick DE's, a couple of AX's, and then a 3-day event on the Fontana "Roval" in which I was hitting 140+ before diving into a tight turn. By the end of that the tires were history. I burned through my stock front pads in the same amount of time...
Apropos of a different thread, you mentioned the drive from Antelope Valley to Riverside. I recently made the reciprocal drive, from Redlands to Willow Springs on the same route, obviously Pearblossom Hwy. Don't you just love the long straights where passing is prohibited?? Aargh! CalTrans did the same thing on 395 north of Adelanto. I think it added 1/2 hour to my drive to Mammoth.
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06-30-2011, 10:35 PM
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Apropos of a different thread, you mentioned the drive from Antelope Valley to Riverside. I recently made the reciprocal drive, from Redlands to Willow Springs on the same route, obviously Pearblossom Hwy. Don't you just love the long straights where passing is prohibited?? Aargh! CalTrans did the same thing on 395 north of Adelanto. I think it added 1/2 hour to my drive to Mammoth.
)Like this: Fwy15 to US395 north. Turn west on CA-18, follow it until it becomes CA-138, aka "Blood Alley" locally. In a couple of miles, good signage says turn right at 165th for Lake LA. Go that way, over the tracks in about a mile without worrying about bottoming, and continue north three miles around a half mile jog eastward that turns the road into 170th St East. Continue north on the same road through the urban sprawl of Lake Los Angeles. (An in-joke of Californians. It's nearly one of our ghost towns. The lake dried up in the fifties shortly after the real estate signs did.) Continue north on 170th to Avenue J, no matter what your nav system says. Turn west for eight miles to 90th St East. North to Avenue H and then west to the freeway (Fwy14), which is about another five miles.
All that sounds complicated, but it's better than even five minutes behind a big rig on 138 and all those roads are good. It's much faster than following Pearblossom Highway (to use the name preferred by the Chamber of Commerce).
From the freeway, the world is your oyster, but Willow Springs is only about fifteen minutes north of that on-ramp. Well, Rosamund is. Take that off ramp, as you know, and Willow is a little west.
You would not credit how many times this German nav system tried to turn me around by sending me out into the desert using some old mule-train path that hadn't been graded since the nineteenth century. Some of what I just told you isn't obvious even using Google Earth. But you can track most of it there. Zoom in after a search for "Llano, CA" to find the intersection of 165th with CA-138. It works well, and it's the way locals get from Lancaster/Palmdale to Fwy 15 without using Blood Alley. Or not much.
Gary