MS3 in the Wet!
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Agreed, everything on the car is built into the price. I guess once you wear out the tires then you have utilized the value you paid and then you can upgrade to something better.
Or you can be stupid like me and upgrade the stock tires after 500km and have a perfectly good set of Bridgestone RE050A tires in the basement.
Or you can be stupid like me and upgrade the stock tires after 500km and have a perfectly good set of Bridgestone RE050A tires in the basement.
WagonMan said:
lol~ my OEM tires had 26 miles before I switched them out. I can't call the Bridgestones "garbage" since I didn't get any use out of them, but as someone stated above, I feel that there are better performing tires to be had for much less money. I love my Pirellis, and I'll probably try a set of Kumhos next. *^_^*
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I was considering the Pirellis
So do you notice a difference with road holding? I'm wondering how much of a compromise the Pirelli's are in the dry over the OEM Bridgestones. Do the Pirellis break loose faster?
Hikaru9 said:
So do you notice a difference with road holding? I'm wondering how much of a compromise the Pirelli's are in the dry over the OEM Bridgestones. Do the Pirellis break loose faster?
h0rde said:
I'll be thrilled if mine last that long (since my wife and I both tend to go through a set of tires in 12-15k). (wrc)
That being said, down here in Texas, I haven't had any complaints about the stockers yet. I was even trying to break them loose in the rain the other day and, with DSC fully active, they were holding rather well. May have been some blips of slippage I didn't notice, but it never once felt squirrely to me. Granted, I wasn't being a complete nut and flooring it, but I was accelerating at rates beyond what one should reasonably be accelerating on wet roads.
I'll still probably put some Toyo T1's on it once the stockers wear down, but that's just a personal preference carried over from ten years of driving Miatas and not because I have any problems with the stock rubber.
Edit: This thread got me to researching tires again for the first time in a good long while...and I think I may have to save up and try the Michelin Pilot Sport PS2's. (burnout)
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Tire Rack's test results...
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/chartDisplay.jsp?ttid=50
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=50
(cliff's notes: as everyone else has been saying, our stockers aren't the best out there, but they certainly aren't junk by any stretch of the imagination.)
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/chartDisplay.jsp?ttid=50
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=50
(cliff's notes: as everyone else has been saying, our stockers aren't the best out there, but they certainly aren't junk by any stretch of the imagination.)
(stupid)h0rde said:
Worth a try. Got to be someone who wants them. I should get off my ass and do the same, right now they are just taking up space in my basement. With my wife complaing about why we have 4 sets of tires in the basement at any given time, but only have two cars.
mtbikerfox115
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the tires arent all too great in the rain...... but in the snow they are worse! one of my friends told me he got rid of his 3 because how there is no traction in the snow....... can we say idiot!?!... i have 25k on mine and are gonna need new ones soon :-(
h0rde said:
Yeah. Good point.
*switches teams*
It was a toss up between the PS2's and the F1ABC123XYZPDQ's. PS2 was just easier to remember. I can just write the Goodyear model name on a post-it note and remember it that way. (silly)
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mtbikerfox115 said:
Idiot...
A car is only as good as its driver....and a good driver will change their habits based on weather and road conditions.
