RE71, RE730, YokoAVSi for '88 80Q?

[Todd Phenneger]

Tess,
  I've run a few sets of the RE-71's and have put some miles on
the AVS Intermediates.   The AVS's are great track tires but
thats about it.  They SUCK in the rain.  THe RE-71's are Decent
in the rain (GREAT in their day but Technology has surpassed
them) but they wear very fast.
  THe RE-730 should have every bit the dry performance of the
RE-71 but with much butter wear and much better wet performance.
  This is the tire that I will be putting on my 5ktq or my 4ktq
(depends which one wears out first) when I replace tires.  its
gotten some Great reviews, is affordable, had more grip than the
Khumo 712's, better rain than the older designed tires, decent
wear, etc.   ONLY complaint is that if it wears unevenly it
becomes very loud.  So watch your alignment and tire pressures.
l8r
  Todd

--- Tessie McMillan <tessmc at drizzle.com> wrote:
> My apologies if this topic has been covered! I haven't been
> able to pay too
> much attention to the digest lately.
> 
> Thursday night as I went around boosting the psi on my
> Bridgestone RE71's in
> preparation for Friday's first-of-the-season lapping day, I
> discovered a
> large nail in the angle of the sidewall of my right rear tire.
> That nail
> wasn't there the day before, and the pressure was down quite a
> bit. Sigh. At
> 9:00 p.m., I had few options.(I ended up just working the
> event and a friend
> let me drive his 944 S2 during open session at the end of the
> day -- so the
> day wasn't a total bust!)
> 
> Since all four of my tires are getting down there anyway, I
> think I'd prefer
> to replace all of them, and not just the rear two to get rid
> of the nail. So
> I could switch to a different tire at this time.
> 
> My Alfa 164-driving friends are pressuring me to put Yokohama
> AVS
> intermediates on my Quattro with the idea that this is a good
> track/street
> tire. I recently bought the Yokos for my Alfa Spider and am
> unhappy with
> them, but I think this is because I selected a 205 instead of
> a 195 -- and
> the tire is just too wide for my lightweight little
> manual-steering baby.
> But I've really been happy with my RE71s (drove them for a few
> years on an
> '87 911 Carrera as well, but only at autocross; we used R1s at
> the track)
> although I still don't know how they'd behave on Quattro on
> the track. I've
> also seen comments on the RE 730 on Tire Rack's web site, and
> although the
> comments look pretty positive, I don't see any evidence of
> track driving
> with these tires.
> 
> Any BTDTs/opinions of these tires? I'm running 15" BBS wheels,
> and this car
> is my standard grocery-gitter as well... although... I do
> alternate between
> Spider and Q-car... &:-)
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Tess
> in Seattle, WA U.S.A.
> 


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