Looking for thoughts on these summer tires

[60181]

Will need two new front shoes come spring and since I'll be putting on snow shoes soon, I thought good to begin the research.

I'm not paying for the OEM rubber and thus am looking at the following in qty 4 and wanted input from fellow MS3ers.


Goodyear Eagle F1 A/S-C
Kumho Ecsta ASX
Kumho Ecsta SPT
Goodyear Eagle GT

thanks!

 

[bluelion]

those seem to be performance all season tires....why not go for a strictly summer tire like kumho xs or dunlop direzza star spec? if not, then throw in the hankook ventus v12 evo k110 into your options.....that's what i'm getting and those tires have gotten a lot of good reviews.....

 

[SBSPEED3]

my dad had eagle f1's on his jag and loved them. infact he liked them so much that he bought them for his 85 911 slant porsche. they seem to be great tires with tons of grip. the only thing i dont like about them is that they are directional, limiting rotation.
i have no experience with any tires other than stock on the ms3 (still on my first set)

 

[Zoomzoom17]

My dad has Goodyears on his car and loves them and I don't know from experience but if I remember right I saw another thread that someone said the Eagle GT was a great tire.

 

[KCjohnny]

I just went through a set of Good Year Eagle F1s on my Mazda 3 sedan (ultra performance all-season radial F1s that is). I can vouch for the tire, awesome if all you are doing is street. Amazing in rain, adequate in snow (but a little slippery on start up), but that's to be expected. I even had two open track days on them after a ton of miles before I completely wore them out. Just put on Dunlop Direzza Star Spec Z1s (ultra summer tire) for better track performance, which they do provide. I will be switching to another UP all-season radial for winter - most likely, I will get the F1s again.

 

[chief_wiggum]

goodyear F1 all-season are my 'winter tire'; my only real complaint is they're LOUD! Otherwise, good in dry, good in wet, alright in snow up to about 4 inches.

 

[BillTheCat]

Can't speak for the Goodyears, but when I ran Kumho Ecsta's (Ecsta MX to be precise) on my '05 MINI Cooper S, they gave me the worst tread life of any tire on that car- about 9-10k miles, if I recall.

Been running Yokohama S-Drives on the MINI and now the MS3, with good results. For a street tire, they are plenty sticky in both dry & wet, relatively quiet on the highway, and they are in the bottom 25% of the price range for most sizes.

I also know lots of folks running the Hankook Ventus V12 Evo's, and they love the price & performance. Those are too new of a tire to talk about tread life, though.

 

[SallySpeed3]

Consider Sumitomo HTR ZIII's. Of all the max performance summer tires they seem to have the best treadwear. I absolutely love them. 235/40's were 110 a peice on tirerack when I got mine a couple months ago. Great bang for your buck.

 

[evilmonkey]

i have the kuhmo ecsta spts ....lovem.... same traction as the stock performace tires with killer tread life...i think its 480

 

[BillTheCat]

i have the kuhmo ecsta spts ....lovem.... same traction as the stock performace tires with killer tread life...i think its 480

I can't help but keep mentioning this--- the tread wear number on the side of the tire means absolutely zero-nothing-zip-zilch-nada. A tire with 200 can last twice as long as a tire with 400. Because the number actually has no standard meaning.

The only true measure of a tire's tread life is to take a large sample of people's actual miles driven to wear them out & do the math.

 

[evilmonkey]

I can't help but keep mentioning this--- the tread wear number on the side of the tire means absolutely zero-nothing-zip-zilch-nada. A tire with 200 can last twice as long as a tire with 400. Because the number actually has no standard meaning.

The only true measure of a tire's tread life is to take a large sample of people's actual miles driven to wear them out & do the math.

had no idea, just thought id put down what they rated the treadwear @ didnt know it was false

 

[SallySpeed3]

It's not exactly false. But tread ratings between different manufacturers is meaningless. Kumho's rating of 300 will most likely be completely different than Dunlops rating of 300. Tread ratings are really only useful when buying tires from the same company.

 

[Zoomzoom17]

Agreed. Those numbers mean nothing. My stock Toyo's are supposed to be 300, but are desperately needing replacement and it's only been 17 months.

 

[funksilver07]

Kumho SPT is a high performance summer tire with a 320 treadwear rating, great tire for the $$$.