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Anyone running the re050's?

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Old 04-28-10, 08:00 AM
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Purchasing a used car with these tires and ride seems a little noisy. Lots of road noise. Two fronts are pretty worn so may be adding to the noise. How are these tires for road noise? Looking at purchasing hankook v12's. Will I see much of a difference? Thanks.
Old 04-28-10, 10:29 AM
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those re050 suck when i had them. lots of road noise. glad they wore out. i replaced them with sumitomos and the road noise went away. i hear other people with hankook v12 also is good with road noise.
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Noone else uses or have used these tires?
Old 04-29-10, 11:55 AM
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pricy and noisy for the OEM ...I heard the new RE050 AS/PP are better
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Had them on two Infiniti's and they were hard, loud and wore out very fast.
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The RE050s came on my car and they were very noisy. I replaced them at 17,000 miles with Continental Extreme Contact and I am very happy with them. They have about 11,000 miles on them now and they are still quiet.
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i had them, they're absolute crap. stay away from them.

i'm using kuhmo ecsta asx and i love them
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Just purchased 2 rear Hankook VENTUS V12 evo K110. Went from the OEM Dunlops to these. Still have Dunlops on the front. Pretty good so far, only had them on a week but the wife drive it mostly. Probably give them a good testing this weekend.
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