Tires

[Steve Marinello]

Interesting note re. Pilot Sports and Pilot Sport A/S tires.  I happen to
have unmounted sets of each right now.  The Pilot Sport summer tire is at
least 2# lighter than the A/S and has noticeable MORE FLEXIBLE sidewalls.
Of course, I believe the A/S's rate even higher on Tire Rack surveys than
the summer tires...and they cost more.  Both are pretty amazing tires,
albeit incredibly expensive in comparison to other options.  But, I got them
for dirt cheap.  Soon to have comparisons of a sort with the Sumi HTR-ZII's
presently on the S6 avant, the Kumho's on the urq and the AVS-dB's on the S6
sedan.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry C. Leung" <l.leung at juno.com>
To: <tquattroguy at yahoo.com>
Cc: <DieMarthaDie at aol.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: Tires


> Fabulous tires, but if you want performance and are willing to compromise
> on
> things such as noise and ride quality, Autoweek had a test of ultra high
> perf tires
> in which a Falken (don't recall the model, check the website) street tire
> (not a
> DOT "R" tire) was champ. It was incredibly noisy and stiff riding, but it
> was
> marginally tops in terms of track and auto-X performance dry, and overall
> tops in the wet. It was also relatively cheap. Close, but not quite was
> the Kumho
> Ecsta MX and Sumitomo HTR-Z2, also relatively inexpensive. Overall tops
> of ALL
> street tires was the Michelin Pilot Sport (NOT AS), but it's roughly
> double the cost
> of any of the other tires.
>
> LL - NY
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Todd Phenneger
> <tquattroguy at yahoo.com> writes:
> > I'd look Seriously at one of 2 tires if you want serious
> > performance.
> > Michlin Pilot Sport AS
> > Bridgestone Potenza SO-3
> >
> > Both great in wet and dry.  But both expensive.
> > l8r
> >   Todd
> >
> > --- DieMarthaDie at aol.com wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> >
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