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Anybody have good sites with current tire reviews? There are tons of choices out there - I've always gone with the Falken 512's for all-season tires.
I haven't seen any decent reviews that include a wide variety of tires. Most of them only seem to be tirerack tires - they don't carry falken's.
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2002 Maxima SE (6MT) -Drop-in K&N and a brand new longblock VQ35
1994 G20 - SR20VE, JWT pop, SSAC 2.5", 2.5" VRS catback
I've thought about getting consumer reports for all of their stuff - however I'm not sure if they would test all the tires I'm looking for. Maybe I need to start a neutral tire reviewing center, since something obviously doesn't exist
Problem with reviews is where you are getting them from. Its like "hop up" parts. GRM is going to get you bang for buck parts, Super Street is goign to get you APC. So tire reviews are the same. Consumer reports is going to be long wearing, safe tires that make no noise.
What do you want for a tire?
A performance tire for light duty, hard to go wrong with Azines. The new 615's I hear are pretty darn good. The new Kook's are getting as good of reviews.
Daily driver, hard to be the Ziex 512's for price to performance ratio's. Even my 15"s were like 40 a piece, thats tough to beat. Find a friend to mount them, and you can get 4 tires mounted and balanced for 200 bucks...not bad.
Straight race compound.... Hoosiers are darn sticky. The Kook's are decent and offering great contingency rewards.
So its a matter of what you are wanting as to where you go to find your reviews. I do tend to stick to GRM since they do even review daily driver tires from time to time
Well - I'm thinking about getting another set of P10 wheels for my P10 and running some decent winter or GOOD all-season tires in the winter and possibly azenis in the summer. Maxima needs tires too, but it has two new 512's so I'll probably stick with those for the other two.
I have a set of Azenis 615's, and though they are very sticky, they take a bit to warm up, and I'm gonna have to replace them at the 10k mile mark. Also, especially as tread decreases (I'm at less than 5/32nds) you will lose large amounts of wet traction. They are extremely predictable on dry pavement though. Also, go to Discounttire.com. They have some good reviews. However, I have a coworker who runs BFG KDW 2's on his early nineties 'teg, and he's gotten well over 30,000 miles on them, with better wet and dry traction. I have read those tires are sticky to the last 32nd, but are noisy as hell, which won't bug me. But each driver is different, so make sure you explore around a bit.
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That's pretty much in line with the other tyres in the 200-treadwear category (Kumho MX, Hankook RS2 Z212, Falken Azenis 615, Advan Neova). If you can give up a few tenths around a 30-second cone course, you'll get a lot more mileage by going with the 300-treadwear class of performance tyres (BFG KDW2, Goodyear Eagle F1, Toyo Proxes T1R).
A few years back, Car & Driver did a performance tyre megatest of some of the more popular performance street tyres of the time. It's still available online here:
I've been slightly disappointed in the 512's - they are decent, but I'm not sold. My wife went through 2 sets on her Focus - averaging ~25k miles per set. I had some old 502's on my SE-R that were OK.
I've come to the realization in life that it is better to buy Azenis, etc if you want sticky and not try to convince myself that the 512's are sticky. I have some Yoko Avid H4's on my G and my wife's Focus - they are quiet, long lasting, and pretty cheap. I would recommend those for a DD tire....especially if you run Azenis on separate wheels in the summer.
I have been less than impressed w/ the 512's as well. The only reason I was happy with them is that we have had three (or maybe four?) replaced under warranty and have purchased two. So I bought 6 tires and they've lasted me over 70k miles.
Any experience with the Pirelli P3000's? I don't need anything super high-performance for my all-season tires - especially if I end up getting a cheap set of 615's (good 'ol 14 inchers) for the summer.
I liked the 512s for a cheap dd tire versus just about anything else. The B14 has BFG g-force sport now that I really like, although they may be overpriced. they came with the car.
The Miata forums used to be norotious for vetting tires.
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