Any idea about rubber
10-26-2002 | 02:45 AM
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Originally posted by fuz
First time I swiched to better tires than the average all seasons, there was a fair change, but I didn't drive agressively enough at the time to notice a huge difference in grip. The handling however, completely changed by a good margin. Road feel went from non-existant to almost too much. Was quite a handfull on wet roads.
As you get more used to pushing a car to its limits, the more you notice tiny differences in tire quality, so if us fanatics seem crazy, well, we are. :D No matter how good a car is, all it connects to the road with are the tires. You don't want that to be your weak link in the chain.
The light weight of the RX-8 should get the tires to last a bit longer, I'm hoping. I'm certainly not going to be pampering this car after a gradual break-in. I wear out tires at about 20-30k miles on every car I've driven, most of them all season tires, of the Michelin Pilot XGT type. It's probably cause I hate them so much that I run them into the ground. Parents wonder what I do to need tires every ~1.5 years.
They tend to replace tires every 4 years. :o
First time I swiched to better tires than the average all seasons, there was a fair change, but I didn't drive agressively enough at the time to notice a huge difference in grip. The handling however, completely changed by a good margin. Road feel went from non-existant to almost too much. Was quite a handfull on wet roads.
As you get more used to pushing a car to its limits, the more you notice tiny differences in tire quality, so if us fanatics seem crazy, well, we are. :D No matter how good a car is, all it connects to the road with are the tires. You don't want that to be your weak link in the chain.
The light weight of the RX-8 should get the tires to last a bit longer, I'm hoping. I'm certainly not going to be pampering this car after a gradual break-in. I wear out tires at about 20-30k miles on every car I've driven, most of them all season tires, of the Michelin Pilot XGT type. It's probably cause I hate them so much that I run them into the ground. Parents wonder what I do to need tires every ~1.5 years.
They tend to replace tires every 4 years. :o
We should start a support group for fast tire wearouts
10-26-2002 | 10:14 AM
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I think most high performance summer only rubber will last about 30K miles at the most.. Depending on your driving style of course.
I also agree that good sticky tires make a huge difference.. They could make a difference between avoiding an accident or crashing into someone.. I will never again buy "all-season" tires.. I can't believe that North America fell for that marketing scam.. Compromising summer and winter performance just so you don't use dedicated summer/winter tires.. oh well.
I also agree that good sticky tires make a huge difference.. They could make a difference between avoiding an accident or crashing into someone.. I will never again buy "all-season" tires.. I can't believe that North America fell for that marketing scam.. Compromising summer and winter performance just so you don't use dedicated summer/winter tires.. oh well.
10-27-2002 | 01:17 AM
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Originally posted by Sputnik
I don't have an issue with Dunflop either. A few years ago, I had great results from a set of D40s.
---jps
I don't have an issue with Dunflop either. A few years ago, I had great results from a set of D40s.
---jps
10-31-2002 | 01:49 AM
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Originally posted by Hercules
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We should start a support group for fast tire wearouts
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We should start a support group for fast tire wearouts
For a while, I couldn't get a set of tires to last longer than 10k miles. With my last set I got a remarkable 20k (and they had a good 5k more in them, but I ran over a giant staple) -- dunno how that happened.
11-07-2002 | 01:26 AM
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Originally posted by BryanH
Yeah. For a while, I couldn't get a set of tires to last longer than 10k miles. With my last set I got a remarkable 20k (and they had a good 5k more in them, but I ran over a giant staple) -- dunno how that happened.
Yeah.
For a while, I couldn't get a set of tires to last longer than 10k miles. With my last set I got a remarkable 20k (and they had a good 5k more in them, but I ran over a giant staple) -- dunno how that happened.
I'm running around 10000 miles on them now, the tread is still good.. I can get another 10k out of them.
11-07-2002 | 02:37 AM
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I rotate my tires twice a month (on average). All 4 wear out at the same time. Just in the last month I've bought 6 tires. Would've been 8 but one of my wheels is bent so I'm holding off on new tires for that until I get some new race wheels.
All 4 wear out at the same time. Just in the last month I've bought 6 tires. Would've been 8 but one of my wheels is bent so I'm holding off on new tires for that until I get some new race wheels.
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