[s-cars] what tires to get ?

[Bill Noland]

Wear on the F1's has been (relatively) slow and even. One other point to mention -- these are SUMMER tires and would be useless in snow. About 5 or 6 years ago, I was running (similarly designed) Toyo T1-S's on my M Roadster, when we had a freak snowfall here in the Oakland Hills. Took me about 15 minutes to make it up a fairly steep, long hill, which is normally dispatched in about 45 seconds. Made me feel even worse, when a front-wheel drive minivan passed me up. UrS, at the time, was running Dunlop SP8000's and had no problem at all. 

Bill N
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Kase 
  To: Bill Noland 
  Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com ; thomas.pollock at amd.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:16 AM
  Subject: Re: [s-cars] what tires to get ?


  Damn, am I going to have to actually buy a Goodyear tire?  I swore never-again after having a set of GT's on my wife's turbo Probe in 1989.

  Any cupping issues Bill?

David Kase
Engineering Manager
PDQ Industries
www.pdqlocks.com

  Bill Noland wrote: 
Try the Goodyears and you should be very happy. I've run them on three 
different cars and have liked them across the board. They are quieter than 
the OEM Contis (SportContact2) on my B6 S4. Wear has been very good for max 
performance tires.

Bill Noland

  so I'm tire shopping after my catastrophic failure last week. I thought I 
had finally decided on the Dunlop Sport Maxx but after reading some of the 
Audi forums, ditched the idea (too noisy, flatspot easy and hard to keep 
balanced).  Then I was ready to order the Bridgestone RE-01R and the 
installer is trying to talk me out of these as well... (too stiff a 
sidewall).  wtf?   He is strongly suggesting Conti's or Goodyear F1GSD3. 
I'm trying to stay under $150 a pop or I'd love to try a Michelin, just 
too steep...

Anyone have experience with any of these ?
    

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