Any experiance with this tire? It looks on paper to be a good tire and its reviews are good on tires.com.

Specifically the 245-50r16 tire.
How noisy is it and any other info good or bad.

 

anyone? how about just the Bridgestone Potenza RE AS tire.

 

I've heard good things about them, and my tire dealer reccomends them, but I've had no experience. I've had the old Bridgestone G009s, and they are good for a good all season tire. I would think that these would give you similar results- good all season tire, but not true hard cornering performer.

 

thanks, its just a weekend driver so as long as I can push it hard on mountain roads. I will not be driving much in the rain and never in the snow. So if you have a recommendation in the 150/tire range let me know.

 

I"m running the RE050A pole positions up front and the RE050A's out back but these are on my C6 vette wheels. The tires are awesome tho. Quiet, very grippy, and stable in cornering. I love them.

I would think the other Potenza's would be good tires as well

If your not driving much and never in rain/snow, then you dont really need an all-season tire but they work pretty good too. They generally are harder compound tire, so they are not quite as grippy but last along time.

 

How many miles a year you put on the car? If you don't drive it alot, then you could get a set of really sticky summer tires to have some fun on.

 

Right now I have antique insurance coverage on it that limits me to 4k miles/year but is a lot cheaper than regular insurance. I'm going to have the tires I have now moved over to the formula wheels I just picked up for when the car is being worked on and sitting and refinish my TA wheels again and get the new tires put on them. I guess if I get to hard of a tire it will dry rot before it wears out.

 

lol, I wish I had that problem. My car gets about 17.5k miles a year and I have two sets of tires- winter set and a summer set. Have you looked into the g-Force Sports? I've had them on my 16s and 17s I like them pretty well. Not the stickiest tire, but they are pretty good and don't wear out terribly fast, and they are in your budget. Or, if you want to spend a little more, there's the Eagle F1 GS-D3s. Really sweet tire wet and dry from what I've read. If I didn't drive so much, I'd get some, but they'll only go about 10k-15k miles from what I've heard. The options on the 245/50s seem to be shrinking every year in the performance categories. I'm sure there are others, but I'm not familiar with many of them.

 

I'll check those out, I want some that will last as I don't want to funnel money into tires every couple of years until I have everything else done on the car. I'll be moving it over to normal insurance again once I get doen with it. I neglected it other than regular oil changes my last two years in college as I was taking to many classes to work and the first three years out I didn't drive it to much as I had to keep it at my parents house since where I lived limited me to one car. Now I've bought a house and am trying to rebuild/fix everything on the car. My top two projects is either rebuild the 305 or do an lsx swap and upgrade the brakes, but I want to keep it drivable as I save the money to do the big items. I just riped the front end apart and ended up replacing the linkages even though I had done it once before but there was some play in the joints as I pulled them to change to a 2.5 turn gear box.

The rear is sitting uneven as in another post I have going right now and I am trying to identify if its body or suspension, I am leaning to suspension.

 

If you do go with the bridgestones, go to a firestone store/shop and get the sales people to make you a really good deal. Firestone is really looking for tire sales right now. By the way the potenzas are one of our better tires.

 

I have used eager zx912"s on my iroc. I LOVE THEM! Consumer reports says they are THEE BEST high performance tires. Thats why i bought them. I paid 100.00 per tire from a local shop here in florida. They look good and ride like a champ especially in the rain. chek them out.

 

blue, I was planing on getting the front end aligned at the Firestone store here in town as they offer a lifetime alignment package for just a little more than a regular one. I don't know if all Firestones do that or not. I will see what deal they can do for me on the tires.

I'll look at the zx912's also.

 

if you get the lifetime alignment its good at any firestone in the country for as long as you own the car. its really not a bad deal. we have customers that get the lifetime and then get the alignment checked every other oil change, you pay more upfront, but nothing thereafter.

 

I put a set of RE 960AS tires on my wife's Maxima, and they're a MUCH better tire than either the Falken ZE512's that they replaced or (so far) the RE92's that the car came with. I drive that car just like I drive any other - hard through the corners and I'm not afraid to use a lot of brake (but no drag race use). The tire does have good steering response and grip, and since nobody who has ever driven that car since has ever remarked about tire noise I guess it's at least decent in that respect.

Hopefully, the Falken ZE912 is also a significant step up from the earlier 512 (which was originally billed as 'Performance All-Season"), though I suspect that it's really just a mild evolution. I don't remember if the 912 was available at the time I was buying tires or not, but I do know that at that time if a Falken tire was NOT either an RT215 or 615 Azenis I wasn't much interested. I'll admit that that's a biased viewpoint, but IMO the claims for the 512 were overstated a little too much for me to feel comfortable going to the same well a second time.

I also have some experience with g-Force Sports. Decent straight line grip, decent cornering, not so good at letting you add throttle on corner exit. Not nearly as good as the (discontinued) Firestone SZ50/50EP. Maybe think 'drifting' instead of autocrossing or open-tracking if you're inclined to take the occasional corner hard or give it a hard boot coming out of a tight Interstate on-ramp and you won't be expecting more than it can provide.


Norm

 

I agree. My g-Force Sports have issue with throttle oversteer, but that was partially resolved when I replaced my 25.4mm rear bar with a 24mm.

 

I have the Bridgestone Potenza RE 960AS Pole and really like how they are so far, I have had them for over a year now but have not put many miles on them at all. I really dont drive my firebird much. They seem to handle much better than any tire I have dealt with so far (besides DRs and Slicks.) I recommend this tire to anyone looking for tires. I think I paid $700 for all 4 mounted balanced installed...

 

Thanks, I just got done replacing my front steering etc, now I've got to track down a rear suspension level issue. Alignment and tires are coming shortly then I will fill better about driving outside the AAA tow radius from my house LOL. It got me through college without any major mechanical problems but now with 211K miles on it its taking a little TLC to get it back into great condition, although the body and the rest is in better shape than I've found in an effort to find one with less miles.