[s-cars] what tires to get ?

[Pollock, Thomas]

reminds me of the time the wife and I passed through a freak snow storm on our way back from Montreal in mid Oct in the Porsche 928 (with slicks!). I basically shut down a section of Rt91... 8-)   Couldn't make even the slightest incline and at one point some of the more desperate folks stuck behind me got out of their cars and pushed me, for probably a mile or so!!!  8-)
 
cheers,
 
tom.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Noland [mailto:wenoland at pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:57 AM
To: David Kase
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com; Pollock, Thomas
Subject: Re: [s-cars] what tires to get ?


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  <mailto:davekase at pdqlocks.com> Kase 
To: Bill Noland <mailto:wenoland at pacbell.net>  
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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