Tires

[Zsolt]

Those are summer tires, I thought the original question was suggestions
for all season .

Anyway, I have the AVS ES 100, and it's a good tire for the money, great
in wet, but I don't like them. They track, and dry traction is not very
good. I am changing them for the Bridgestone SO-3.

  Zsolt

David wrote:

>If you want some real tests (including wet perforance) of low priced, high performance tires, check out http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testResultsModel.jsp?tireMake=Yokohama&tireModel=AVS+ES100
>They tested:
>Kumho ECSTA Supra 712 Ultra High Performance 225/45R17
>Sumitomo HTR Z II Ultra High Performance 225/45R17
>Yokohama AVS ES100 Ultra High Performance 225/45R17
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>Basically they found that in order of performance it was: Yoko, Sumi, Kumho...all 3 are in the same price range. I got my Yoko's for $50 each in 195/50/15.
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>Dave
>1987 CGT Special Build 2.3
>SE Virginia
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>>From: DieMarthaDie at aol.com
>>Date: 2003/07/15 Tue AM 10:09:07 EDT
>>To: l.leung at juno.com,  quattro at audifans.com
>>Subject: Re: Tires
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>>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!
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>>John
>>90 V8Q
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>>>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.
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>>>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
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