[Shotimes] Re: Tires

[Donald Mallinson]

I have had very good luck with two types of Continental tires:

Sport Contacts for summer driving and Touring Contacts for year round 
driving when you deal with snow.

The Sport contacts were on my '89 and went through several summers and 
more than a few track days, and I retired them to my son who has run 
them several more track days and two more summers.  They are finally 
getting replaced by Yokohama AVS ES100's.  (he had the AVSdb and did NOT 
like them).

I have used continental Touring Contacts on my '96 SHO for a couple of 
years and three winteres so far and they  behave wonderfully, even on 
track days.  No they didn't stick like race rubber, but they didn't 
chunk, were super quiet and dug in like real snow tires in the winter.  
For year round use, they are cheap, round, look good and are original 
equipment on a lot of new cars including the new 300Hemi.  I heartily 
recommend Continentals.

I put a set of the Yokohama ES100's on my '96 for summer use finally to 
get a bit more track bite, and save the touring contacts for winter only 
now.  The ES100's are great summer tires that are low priced, high 
quality and stick really well.

IF you can't guess, I love a tire that gives great value/price and 
performance.  Why pay $200 per tire when you get 98% of the performance 
at $100 or under with some good buying decisions.

Don Mallinson

bjshov8 wrote:

>I bought these for my 97 SHO and liked them.  I buy tires mostly for
>traction and these provided it, especially in wet conditions.  They seemed
>to wear fast, and seemed to be a little soft on turnin.
>
>After doing more research I decided that Bridgestone offered some very good
>tires so when I got ready to replace the Yoko's I was going to get
>Bridgestones.  My local dealer could not get the tires I wanted on short
>notice but they now sell a brand called Fuzion, which are made by
>Bridgestone/Firestone.  This brand got good reviews on tirerack.com so I
>bought them.  They have good dry traction, good turnin response, and seem to
>have good wet traction.  Depending on their wear they might turn out to be a
>good value.
>
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>>I was looking at the Yokohama AVS dB S2
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