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Street tires recommendations

Postby fd3s » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:55 am

Wondering what street tire u guys are running.

15/195/50

thinking of either getting Potenza G3 or Advan neova LTS (if available)..

what you reckon???

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Postby StanTheMan » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:02 pm

is anyone going to dare.....
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Re: Street tires recommendations

Postby JBT » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:06 pm

[quote="fd3s"]Wondering what street tire u guys are running.quote]
My tyres are OEM Bridgestone Turanzas - I like 'em so I'll get something similar when new ones are needed :)
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Postby AJ » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:54 pm

StanTheMan wrote:is anyone going to dare.....



not this black duck........
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Postby smiles » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:14 pm

AJ wrote:
StanTheMan wrote:is anyone going to dare.....



not this black duck........


Come on guys, us newbies haven't gone thru all the COWs yet!

Personally I've only tried the G3's from your list and think they're above average at best. My pick for street driving is Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3, can't think of a tyre with more wet weather grip, very good in the dry. These tyres stick so hard on my rex that at EC skidpan days I find it hard to unsettle the car and get the back to flick around cones ... so I now use Azenis RT215s for wet skidpan days!

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Postby fd3s » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:05 am

the RT215 are far too good for every day street use.... and wear rate is rather high.....

Eagle F1 - my bro has tried them on his old PUG nothing special - ok at best - i think G3 would probably out perform the F1s

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Postby CT » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:45 am

G3s or C-Drive Yokies will be fine for all round road driving.
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Postby smiles » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:45 am

have a look at http://www.tirerack.com/tires/surveyresults/surveydisplay.jsp?type=MP

You'll see that there are a few Eagle F1's on the market, the ones I'm talking about are on the top of that list. Are you sure your brother was using the GS-D3's?

Having used both Potenza G3 and Eagle F1 GS-D3 I can easily say the Goodyear is in a different league to the Bridgestone.

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Postby fd3s » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:59 pm

they have great wet traction but doesnt beat bridgestones anywhere else - although g3 aint in that category - its like comparing my RE540s with RT215 - there is no comparision in the dry.....

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Postby Okibi » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:15 am

If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I.


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