[V8] Cooper Tires or Bridgestone G009's?

[too many quattros]

i recently drove my sisters urs4 over the grapevine in socal.  it has fuzion
zri tires on.  great tire in the dry.  imo, good in the wet, but not great.
kinda of disappointing for a water evacuation direction designed tire.  i
also had a chance to drive it in the snow with this tires on.  sucked.  i do
say though, superb tire in the dry.  sidewalls might be a bit soft for some,
but for a compromise performance/daily driver tire, i did not mind.  the
cooer tires i have had recenlty (or still have) that i like are the zeon
series.  z2s or something like that and sport a/s.  BTW, the sport a/s IMO
is one of the best tires i have ever owned.  when i first got them, i drove
from spokane wa to orlando FL.  in short about 6000 miles round trip and
encountered everything from 100+ degree heat to 0 degrees and snow.  had the
car up to 130+ mph and it was brilliant.  tires have about 55K-60K miles on
them and are still going strong, even though my inlaws now own the car they
are on.  not sure if they still make the tire.  don't remember what i paid
for them, but it was not all that much.





Shayne

PARTING:  1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE 4.5
PARTING:  1986 Audi 4000 CS quattro


> From: Scott Simmons <indischrot at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:28:55 -0600
> To: <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
> Cc: <V8 at audifans.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8] Cooper Tires or Bridgestone G009's?
> 
> 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?