Curious on what tire everyone changes to once the stockers are bald? Thanks for the input in advance, im looking into buying a different setup and not sure whether i should go all season or max summers again.

 

Depends if you want performance, comfort, all season or some combo of the aforementioned.

I'm in the performance boat and thinking PS2, CSC3, GSD3 (or F1 Asym, if available) or maybe HTRZ III......

Decide your priorities, try a search@CL, google, try tirerack reviews and have fun looking!

 

i liked the Dunlops and would do them again. (they were outta stock)
did a lot of research and
the GS-D3's for me are after about 800 miles have felt great. it has awesome wet traction, strong feel, very good performance. It is known to be very quiet but i can still hear them but it's good.

i am a little biased because i busted a Dunlop on a cheezy pothole when it was fairly new but just a little more $ as compared to the Dunlops and to me a little quieter but best thing is just better construction (stronger/flangs) and V tread pattern for awesome wet as i have tested a lot lately.

for NY you probably need allseason tires too, but GS-D3 is very very good summer tire

 

sumitomo HTRZ ($650 road hazard shipped) got good test results from tirerack and they are significantly cheaper then pole positions or F1 GS-D3 (~$1000 with road hazard shipped)

 

I just placed an order for FK-452s. Suppose to be really excellent summer tires equivalent to the GSD-3s performance, but for much cheaper.

 

General UMP, due to stretchability

 

haha what a helpful comment that the OP will probably overlook.

Don't just go buy stuff based on other people's decisions. haha. Sadly, thats what most people do these days anyways. haha.
But yeah, decide what You need, research, and make your own decision. I mean didn't you do that when you firste decided to buy a car? Or did you just buy an IS b/c everyone was buying it then.
Its a sad world. people don't know how to think for themselves anymore.
I don't wanna be too harsh but drive until they're bald? haha oh boy I hope no one actually does that...

 

imo i think it depends where you drive. here in MD, we get all sorts of crazy weather, and i'm not into switching rims for snow tires and what not. So I went with the Eagle F1 A/S. about 1k miles now. I like them - a little rougher than the stock dunlops but i can definitely feel the difference in handling on wet and dry.

Its nothing anywhere near a summer tire.... but i think its a good compromise.

 

I'm going to get the Goodyear F1s.

 

I just put on GY Eagle F1 AS and love them. $150.00 for the front, $204.00 rear.

 

I'm planning on the GY Eagle All Season's as well. I believe they will last longer than the GS D3's and will handle bad weather much better. I don't drive my car real hard so any loss of dry traction won't make any difference to me.

 

What is everyone's opinion on the tread life on the Goodyear F1 All Seasons? Discounttire.com rates them 5 stars based on user reviews, but my friend went to get tires and was told the tread life is bad and sold him cheaper Yokohama YK520s instead, which as a 70,000 miles warranty.

Thoughts?

 

one of the top rated all seasons on tirerack

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/survey...jsp?type=UHPAS

 

how long did your first set last? my dealer was telling me i needed to change mine at my 15k service and that they would not pass inspection (i had a little less than 15 at the time). they wanted $1200 for new tires, ridiculous.
i went to a tire shop near my house and they told me that i still had a few thousand miles left in them.

 

Originally Posted by TAP4636
What is everyone's opinion on the tread life on the Goodyear F1 All Seasons? Discounttire.com rates them 5 stars based on user reviews, but my friend went to get tires and was told the tread life is bad and sold him cheaper Yokohama YK520s instead, which as a 70,000 miles warranty.

Thoughts?


The treadware is rated at 420. The guy at discount tire said they have had customers put 50K miles plus on them.