[Shotimes] Re: Tires

[Zach Leahy]

I personally live about 1.5 hours from the tire rack, so I will
generally just drive up there and have them install whatever I buy. 
Good service, and you can't beat a place that has a building 3 times
the size of your normal wal-mart.  they have nearly anything you can
dream up... in stock.

As for tires themselves, I am pretty sold on Kuhmo's.  I ran BFG KDWS
on slicers for a while and they were good, got about 15k out of a set.
 Swapped to a Sumitomo KTR+ in the 245/45/17 flavor on an 8" rim. 
Good tires initially, but as they wore winter traction became very
minimal.  Also managed to bend 3 of 4 of those particular rims.  Don't
ask how, I don't even know.

After that I swapped to a Kuhmo ASX on the 93.  245/45/17 on a 7.5"
rim.  Godd fit for the rim, but has a bit of sidewall flex and/or sway
in the tread blocks.  I have not logged a ton of miles on these (about
4000) but have found them to do very well.  I am in a climate where
all seasons are required if you don't have multiple summer/winter
sets.  The ASX's did well on an autox course, but don't expect them to
perform like a summer only or an R compound tire.

back several years ago I was using a BFG R1 as a track tire.  Contrary
to Ron Porter I will be dragging these out for convention (Don, I'm
gonna send in my registration today,  I promise!).  They are old and
prettuy hard, but I might as well beat them up a bit before trashing
them.  When they were in good condidtion they STUCK LIKE GLUE!  but,
obviously ine would expect an R compund tire to do so.

Sor the money though, Kuhmo's are hard to beat.

Z

On 7/4/05, Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I was looking at the Yokohama AVS dB S2
> >>
> >>
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