Looking for tire advice

On 29 Sep 2004 23:43:33 -0700, (Jan) wrote:

>What's a good, fairly sticky tire in 185/60/14 size? Snow performance
>is irrelevant (got a 4x4 truck for that), and rain is infrequent here.
> This would be strictly for street driving (no racing), but I like to
>drive fairly aggressively.
>
>The tires I got now are some Toyo Spectrums, and I absolutely hate
>them. Don't handle nearly as well as the Dunlops I had previously,
>but most annoyingly, they screech someting awful when I push them even
>a little. Can anyone suggest a better replacement?

I got in on this a little late but...

About a month ago, I got some Falken ZIEX 512 tires in 185/60/14. At
first, I was disappointed in them as they felt very mushy and
understeered some. That was at 27psi. I fooled around with the
pressure and found that at 31psi, they handle fairly well, don't
squeel, give a very good ride and are pretty quiet. They are NOT
racing tires and are still a bit mushy in hard cornering, but for all
around driving, I'm pretty happy and I drive pretty aggressively at
times.

Jan -

Not quite the Potenza RE750's I'm running, but it looks like the
RE950's would be a good choice as well...

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....Co mpare1=yes

Good luck on the search...

- L


On 29 Sep 2004 23:43:33 -0700, (Jan) wrote:

>What's a good, fairly sticky tire in 185/60/14 size? Snow performance
>is irrelevant (got a 4x4 truck for that), and rain is infrequent here.
> This would be strictly for street driving (no racing), but I like to
>drive fairly aggressively.
>
>The tires I got now are some Toyo Spectrums, and I absolutely hate
>them. Don't handle nearly as well as the Dunlops I had previously,
>but most annoyingly, they screech someting awful when I push them even
>a little. Can anyone suggest a better replacement?

'97 STO, "Chouki"

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Running Falken Azinis you are correct smallest size 195-60-14 I run autox
and love them they ran me 55$ each at discount tires.
"Jan" > wrote in message
om...
> (Dave) wrote in message
>...
> > Sounds like you have gotten great choices so far. I bought Falken
> > Azenis, but I auto-X and they are THE non-R compound tire for
> > that. Otherwise I probably would have gone for the Toyo Proxes
> > T1-S. Check tirerack.com for reviews. In 14", you can get the
> > Falkens for dirt cheap, ~$50-60? I'm jealous.
>
> HuH? When I checked, neither the Falkens nor the TS-1's are available
> in 185/60/14 size. I think of the tires mentioned, the Yokos are my
> only choice.