[V8] Cooper Tires or Bridgestone G009's?

[Scott Simmons]

Thanks Roger.

I picked up the G009's because my P-car had the RE960whatever Pole 
Positions and they were very, very  nice but more geared towards "All 
Season Means All Summer Season" than a real All Season.  I read up on 
the G009's on Tire Rack.

I've spent bucks on tires before, and I always felt horrible 
afterwards.  "Well, there went $600, now what?  I can... drive my car.  
Huh."  So I try to go as cheap as I can without going crappy.  I'm going 
to do some price shopping.  Since I work at a FLAPS and cut these 
tire/alignment places deals all the time on parts ("Okay, what's MY 
cost?"), they sometimes return the favor.  Someone quoted me Fusions, 
let me go check.  Yeah... $67/ea.  H-rated.

Any other bits of wisdom out there?

~Scott S.

Roger Woodbury wrote:

>I haven't had Cooper tires for years, but many years ago, I bought a set for
>my retired Massachusetts State Police Cruiser, and they were wonderful.  For
>an Audi?  I dunno.  
>
>But I DO know about the Bridgestone G009's.  I rate them "Barely OK".  I had
>a set on the now departed Black Mariah, and on my wife's 100CS, aka The
>Green Horney.  
>
>I won't buy another set.  
>
>I felt that their wear rate was a higher than I cared for, and the handling
>was mediocre.  For the price, it was OK, but not great.  There are too many
>other tires out there to try to go back to the 009's again.
>
>Currently, I have a set of Fuzion somethingorothers on my wife's car.  They
>are brand new, so it is far too early to make any comment at all.  Fuzion is
>the Bridgestone "discount" brand, and it worked out to about twenty bucks a
>corner cheaper than the high priced Bridgestones, so I figured that I'd try
>them out and see.  Initial impression is that they will need more air
>pressure or else they seem to want to sqirm a bit, and they seem a bit
>noisier than I have experienced in other Bridgstones.  Still and all, for
>the money, they may work out OK.  
>
>I have said this before and I'll say it again.  The VERY best all around
>tire that I have ever had on any of my Audis, was the Firestone Touring
>Radial LH.  Had 'em on my first 200 20-valve and on one of the V8's.  The
>Bridgestone equivalent was about twenty five bucks a corner more, but the
>Firestones were terrific.  Of course they no longer make the Touring LH by
>name anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter....
>
>Roger
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