Tires

[DieMarthaDie at aol.com]

how do they handle in WET weather?  I keep finding nice dry tires but, not living in AZ, I have to deal with wet roads pretty often!

John
90 V8Q

> Personnally, I'd take a GOOD look at the
> Kumho 712's, if you also run snows in the
> winter (if that applies). A whole lot of
> performance for the money, Grassroots Motorsports
> actually found that they compare VERY well
> (mid pack of some rather nice tires) to other
> high performance rubber (Sumitomo HTR-Z, Pirelli
> P7000, some Michelin Pilot, though don't recall
> the model, Falken Ziev something or other), and their
> price point is well below all of them.
>
> I would, however, caution of using them as a year
> round tire, their performance falls off notably
> once the temps drop to around 35 degrees F or so,
> snow or no snow.
>
> LL - NY