Potenza RE730 noisier than Dunlop SP8000
Brendan/Coolian
coolian at mediaone.net
Tue Apr 24 13:41:12 EDT 2001
The summer tire of choice for me is the Dunlop SP8000.
Sullivan Tire (2 streets over) can get them for 92 a piece mounted,
balanced with road hazard (30,000 miles)....Forget about sending away for
tires, getting a flat and being $hit out of luck.
At 12:14 PM 4/24/01 -0500, Kaklikian, Gary wrote:
>See the tire discussions on the S-car list. The reasonably priced summer
>tire of choice is the Sumitomo HTRZ11. I just put them on my '92 and am
>impressed with how quiet and comfortable they are. Steering response and dry
>traction are excellent; wet traction is supposed to be incredible, though
>I've yet to encounter rain. Highly recommend them.
>
>Gary Kaklikian
>86 4ktq
>92 S4
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Billing [mailto:eric.billing at sdrc.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:45 AM
>To: Quattro list
>Subject: Potenza RE730 noisier than Dunlop SP8000
>
>
>I've been considering the RE730 for my 93 S4... Therefore the recent
>discussion caught my attention.
>
>I've noticed that several of you have mentioned the RE730 is noisy. Can you
>elaborate? Is it noisy under normal driving conditions, or are you referring
>to noisy when driven aggressively (i.e. at the track)?
>
>Is the SP8000 less noisy in same situations?
>
>Thanks!
>--
>
>Eric Billing
>
>93 100csqa
>93 urS4
>
>eric.billing at sdrc.com
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