[s-cars] what tires to get ?

[David Kase]

That reminds me of the time I had to pull my RX-7 out of the garage and 
turn it around on the street.  I backed onto the (packed) snow covered 
road, put the car in first, let out the clutch and went nowhere.  I 
thought the clutch was gone but quickly realized that Yokohama A507's 
(?) has absolutely no traction on the slippy stuff.
I had to get some help to push the damn thing back into the driveway.

David Kase
Engineering Manager
PDQ Industries
www.pdqlocks.com



Bill Noland wrote:

> 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 <mailto:davekase at pdqlocks.com>
>     *To:* Bill Noland <mailto:wenoland at pacbell.net>
>     *Cc:* s-car-list at audifans.com <mailto:s-car-list at audifans.com> ;
>     thomas.pollock at amd.com <mailto: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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