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| Comments: 26 (Read/Post) Favorites: 0 (View) |
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on: 06-04-2007
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Say hello to my dad's 1971 GMC 1500 Custom stepside pickup. |
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| #21 |
2-13-2013 @ 04:54:34 AM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#20, I'd say you can't go wrong with such premium brand. So far I've used Michelin Alpin snow tires on the 206 in the winter and they did a very good job. On the Beemer I use Dunlop SP Sport Max Response for the summer and Continental ContiWinterContact TS830 for the winter, I'm also partial to Bridgestone Turanza ER300 which my company car used. From my experience the age of the tire/rubber compound is much more important than the brand. If you know what to look at, you can get a good set of 'fresh' used tires: again, condition/age of rubber is more important than thread depth, unless you will often drive in monsoons.
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| #22 |
2-13-2013 @ 05:01:35 AM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#21, For hooning you can risk your everyday tires: if your car is not a tire eater (as my 206 was) and you take it easy and/or the event has short runs, they should be OK. Otherwise you have two choices: semi slicks (expensive!) or just some junkyard free rubber. So far on the beemer I chose the second option: a pair of worn Turanzas and a pair of VERY worn Toyo T1Rs which I swap front/rear to tune the handling. The Turanzas are still reasonably fresh and the Toyos... well, whenever I want to throw them out they seem to wear down to another layer of sticky rubber. Odd. For the future I will bite the bullet and buy a set of 15 inch regrooved rally slicks, if that works I will be looking to upgrade to 225/45R17 size (205/60R15 now).
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| #23 |
2-13-2013 @ 05:04:49 AM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#22, Oh, one more thing: stay away from 'eco' or 'low rolling resistance' or 'fuel saver' or 'high mileage' tires. They are horrible, really. I guess I don't have to mention Chinese tires, do I?
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| #24 |
2-13-2013 @ 09:00:15 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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I almost always buy used tires for my vehicles. You can save huge amounts of money, and used tire shops are full of practically new tires either pulled from wrecks or traded in by individuals who had upgraded their cars to aftermarket wheels/tires.
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| #25 |
2-13-2013 @ 05:21:47 PM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#24, True, massive savings if you know which used tires are good ones.
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