Ultra High Performance Summer Tires Recommendations
 

Any Ultra High Performance Summer Tire Recommendations?
Anyone here with Firestone Firehawk Wide Oval Indy 500?

Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3. Love 'em.

http://www.tirerack.com/images/tires...gsd3_ci2_l.jpg

Federal SS595's > all.
http://victoriatire.com/pictures/whe...l%20SS-595.jpg

/thread

I had the older version of the Firestone Firehawk at one point. Great summer tire and even decent in a bit of rain. Don't expect it to wear well. Mine were toast at about 20,000 miles.

Just ordered some Hankook Ventus V12 Evo K110, By the reviews, they seem to be a great tire, we'll see when I get them mounted. I also heard the Continental Extreme DW are great as well.

Definitely the best for the price.

I'm no longer buying new tires, though. They just don't last. There's a shop nearby that has lots of barely used tires (from dealers I'm guessing). I can go and pick out what I want and they only cost $30-45 each mounted and balanced.

Toyos are my fav, but at 300 per tire :laugh: I don't think so.

I'll be shopping for new tires and rims in the spring/summer as well. I currently have stock rims with yokohama yk520s. The original owner had just purchased them when i bought the car at 32K. I'm at 81k now and they've worn pretty good for me. They are very good tires in the rain and the snow. I'll probably pick up another set of Yokohamas; I'm currently checking out the AVID ENVigors.

Bridgestone Potenza RE-760 sports rock, excellent grip, very quiet and they wear pretty well, had 19k on the back ones when my car was hit and they still had more than half the tread life left on them.

Whatever you do, don't get Firestones.

Car and Driver had an "Affordable Summer Tire Review" in 2009. This may be a bit dated, but I think all of these tires are still available. ( http://tinyurl.com/koal9l )

Ist place: Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec ( http://tinyurl.com/lbu4vo )

falken 452 the best!!

http://www.productwiki.com/upload/im...res_fk_452.jpg

After all of the falken sidewall bubbling I've seen, I'm staying clear.

General Exclaim UHPs. Great bang for the buck. Great grip, dry, wet and ran them into the first light snow even... Good treadwear and value. Check tirerack for the reviews/stats.

^

I agree with this. These tires are awesome all-around. I've even driven Exclaim UHPs in 3" of snow before, and they did just fine.

I've heard those general exclaims we're pretty good as well. However, I'm running Hankook Ventus V4 es tires. Grip is good in rain and dry weather. Didn't have any trouble driving around philly when the snowstorm him this winter. The V12's 03VQMax suggested are supposed to be better but more pricey. Treadwear is decent on these I believe, had em for about 6000 now and nothing bad.

Got my Hankook's for a pretty decent deal. I think it was something like 380 or 400 total mounted balanced taxes and with warranty on size 225/50/17. Although that took alot of shopping around.

+1 on these.

If you want to spend ~200 a tire, go with dunlop star spec Z1, if you want to spend ~120 a tire, go with general exclaim UHP.

Short warning on the exclaims, though... They have soft sidewalls which makes them great for straight line traction, but can get slightly squirmy on hard braking and a little sluggish on turn in. I've gotten used to it, but I wouldn't use them for autocross.

I think Nitto 555 Extreme and BF Goodrich G Sports are big bang for the buck tires with excellent thread wear and grip.......Discount Tire All day!

^^^Cmax just took the words right out of my mouth lmfao.I've ran both on my 4th gen and they were both great but if I remember correctly the Nitto's lasted a little longer than the BFG's though.Both highly recommended.

+11111111111111

crapy and noisy as hell

I've been buying tires for various cars for 30 years now, and every time I find myself with a set of Firestone tires, it comes with regret. They've always been garbage.

But hey, Hyundai used to make garbage, too, and look where they are today.

+1. I ordered a pair to replace the rear tires on my 325is. I've only driven on them for a week, but they seem great so far. Quiet, good grip in the wet and dry, and I got them for $110 each. I think they're down to $105 each now on tirerack.com in the 245/40/17 size.

I run General UHP's on lightweight 17" rims in the summer months, and they're pretty darn nice for the price.

How many miles have you guys gotten out of the Nitto 555s and General Exclaim UHP's?

same here in the Bronx 30 each :laugh:....I got blizzack snow tire for 30 bucks and go threw snow like A 4x4 lol.....For summer I like falkens but price kills me and they wear so fast the way I rape em