NT01's: when to get new ones?
05-06-2014, 10:07 PM
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I honestly don't worry about the splitting, people forget that Nittos turn into basically a full slick, and most of the time, these splits aren't close to the full depth of the tire. Just rotate side to side, and flip.
Anybody who has split tires that wants to sell them to me, please let me know, I'll be happy to use them.
05-06-2014, 11:39 PM
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05-07-2014, 08:51 AM
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+1...I want the 245 fronts though. Somehow the last set of fronts I picked up were 235's (which had splitting) and I never noticed it until they were on the car and I was making shock changes chasing front grip. 6 months later I realized I'm running smaller front tires. I should probably pay closer attention to details from now on.
05-12-2014, 01:50 PM
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05-12-2014, 01:59 PM
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Carbon copy of my tire after 4 sessions. I'm guessing this was on the left side of the car? Put the wheel/tire combo on the right side of the car so it rolls the other way and it will close up and eventually wear away. It did for me. I have 22 sessions on the tires and both the fronts and rears are close to a slick now.
05-12-2014, 03:00 PM
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Carbon copy of my tire after 4 sessions. I'm guessing this was on the left side of the car? Put the wheel/tire combo on the right side of the car so it rolls the other way and it will close up and eventually wear away. It did for me. I have 22 sessions on the tires and both the fronts and rears are close to a slick now.
I saw all the previous posts and mainly I was wondering if, were I to swap sides, is the tear in the splice bad enough that it would heal up...? Your experience seems to indicate yes, but I think my tear might be a little more ragged than yours was.
05-12-2014, 06:46 PM
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Yup, was on the driver's-side rear, as you suspect.
I saw all the previous posts and mainly I was wondering if, were I to swap sides, is the tear in the splice bad enough that it would heal up...? Your experience seems to indicate yes, but I think my tear might be a little more ragged than yours was.
I saw all the previous posts and mainly I was wondering if, were I to swap sides, is the tear in the splice bad enough that it would heal up...? Your experience seems to indicate yes, but I think my tear might be a little more ragged than yours was.
05-12-2014, 07:06 PM
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05-12-2014, 07:29 PM
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One of mine looked similar. It went away.
05-13-2014, 05:12 AM
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I reached out today to one of my old insider contacts at Nitto. May not get anything but figured it was worth a try. What do we think we could muster from a group buy perspective across RL? 50, 100 pair? Maybe we could work out a big group buy to entice them to make a lot more. If we could get Peter to run them, he might be able to do that many by himself 
