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RTHRTY3

By RTHRTY3,
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siksII Grand Master

siksII

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pirelli p6000s, excellent in the wet. especially braking in the wet in comparison to other sports tyres (read it in motor mags tyre test last year or sumthing).. ive had a set on each of my two cars so far and they have lasted well also..

meshmesh Mentor

meshmesh

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..You need to ask yourself so so so many questions but generally speaking...

How much do I want to spend?

How many K's do want to get out the tyres?

Do I want a flat out performance tyre?

Do I want it soley for it's Wet weather conditions or dry conditions, or both?

I just went down this path last week, I spent a good week or two aking some calls, speaking to guys on the forum etc etc..

I wanted a performance tyre for my GTR that was realisticlly priced "unlike Michelin Xpilot 2", had some of the BEST grip in both wet and dry, and could hold my power to the ground. In the end it came down to 3 tyres:

Falken ST215 "Semi Comps" Best grip in dry, useless in wet. But as I was told with Semi Comps, you need to warm the up properly before you can take real advantage on the street.

Falken ST115 - Had these before on a WRX, and I felt they were too hard a compund regardless of the Falken statement of being undeatable in the Wet, and they didn't grip under hard concerning.

Bridgstone S03 - Did not hear 1 bad comment about these from anyone I spoke to. And now I know why. I chose these as I ended up paying nearly the price as the ST115 falkens. $310, retail I got quotes up to $420 per tyre in a 17 255 40. So far I've done about 400k's in the dry just wearing them in, no wet days so far. And they feel better than my old Michelin Xpilots & they were the best tyre I have every used... hang second best, on our other car I have Continental Contact Sport 2, but I only get about 8000km's out of these on a rear wheel drive car.

R34 Mentor

R34

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Well I can definitely NOT recommend Sumitomo.

3%Silicon 97% concrete.

Done 25,000kms on them and they still look new.

Were worse than the stock tyres that came with the REX.

They "flop" around on the rims and squeal like stuck cops.

It takes an amazing tyre (not in a good way) to make a REX feel unsettled in the wet.

I'm watching this thread with interest...looks like S03's so far

Cheers

antuanstylar Enthusiast

antuanstylar

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..You need to ask yourself so so so many questions but generally speaking...

$310, retail I got quotes up to $420 per tyre in a 17 255 40. So far I've done about 400k's in the dry just wearing them in, no wet days so far.

Where did you find the bridgestones for this price?

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