SteveB

Looking for some RX-8 reviews on this tire. (245/40/18)

I'm looking for a cost-effective tire to finish up the summer/fall. I'll be entering 1 or 2 more autocross events then calling it a year.

C Ya L8r

I have had these for a couple hundred miles now. with 245's the grip is slightly better than stock. These things rock in the rain, the stock ones are scary.
Sometimes my car sits for a whole week and they flatspot, but it goes away after a fiew miles. great tire for the price. just dont expect the quietest best handling tire.
P.S they are not runflats. you might want a spare

SteveB

Thanks for the reply. I've got an extra set of wheel/tires if I need them.

I was kind of worried about how they would handle in the rain. I was thinking about going with the stock sized General Tire Exclaim UHP's (only $99/tire) because I had them on my Eclipse and they actually performed really well. Particularly in the rain.

Anyone else?

RK

iTrader: (1)

I had Sumitomo HTR Z II on my old Prelude and loved them for Summer driving. Not the quietest tire ever and I would definitely recommend a road hazard warranty as I went through two tires from normal driving over a 3 year span. At the time TR didn't offer road hazard warranty so I had to drop a few hundred extra bucks.

They did seem to wear relatively quickly but you know there's gonna be downsides from a tire this inexpensive. I didn't rotate regularly enough and ended up learning how to handle a 360 in the middle of an intersection. No idea how the IIIs improved on the IIs.