high performance street tires? ?

[Grant Lenahan]

Sumitomo HTR+.
You'll love them.
Cheap.
Good in bad weather.

Also happy with Conti Extreme Contacts

Dunlop 5000s are mediocre. SP8000 much better, I'm told.  Dunlop's M3 
winter is tremendous.

Grant
On Mar 25, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Tess McMillan wrote:

> Guys, what is the latest wisdom on high performance street tires in the
> 15" size? I was browsing around on Tire Rack and was confused by the
> dizzying array of brands that don't seem to be the same as the last 
> time
> I went out there...
>
> Many eons ago I had Bridgestone RE71s on my '88 80. I loved those 
> tires!
> But I didn't have a set of track wheels then and chunked them pretty
> badly. My Alfa friends convinced me to try Yoko AVSis -- but those 
> didn't
> last long either. So I went to the old Dunlop SP Sport 5000s .... but 
> the
> Dunlops picked up nails in all 4 tires just a few months after I bought
> them and I figured that brand had been hexed. I switched to the very 
> cheap
> Kumho Ecsta 712. And even though those tires make driving an 
> "adventure"
> (aka white knuckles, esp. in the rain), I've kept driving them because
> they still had a lot of tread.
>
> So, the Kumhos have finally worn out. Looking for recommendations on
> 205/50 15s.... Anyone out there still on 15" rims?  Please, no
> recommendations for the lavender-scented tires that Kumho now offers ha
> ha ha.
>
> Tess
> in Bellevue, WA USA
>
> Det beror inte på vem du är; det beror bara på vad du gör...
>
>
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