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Need Advice on All-Season Tires
I have a 2002 Miata with the awful Turanza tires that are worthless on slippery roads. I want to replace them with a quiet and safe tire that is useful in snow that is up to a couple of inches deep and yet will work OK during the summer. My Internet review on this subject indicates that the Bridgestone Potenza RE950 is the ticket. Here is my problem--my tire size is 205/45R16 and the Potenza does not come in that size. What would you recomend? Any other tires for my situation? I live in the Eastern part of Washington state.
regards Mike Danielson |
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"Mike Danielson" > wrote:
>I have a 2002 Miata with the awful Turanza tires that are worthless on slippery roads. I want to replace them with a quiet and safe tire that is useful in snow that is up to a couple of inches deep and yet will work OK during the summer. My Internet review on this subject indicates that the Bridgestone Potenza RE950 is the ticket. Here is my problem--my tire size is 205/45R16 and the Potenza does not come in that size. So what is wrong with the 205/40-16 or 205/55-16? Leon > What would you recomend? Any other tires for my situation? I live in the Eastern part of Washington state. > >regards > >Mike Danielson -- Leon van Dommelen Bozo, the White 96 Sebring Miata .) http://www.dommelen.net/miata EXIT THE INTERSTATES (Jamie Jensen) |
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"Mike Danielson" > wrote: > I want to replace them with a quiet and safe tire that is useful in snow that > is up to a couple of inches deep and yet will work OK during the summer. My > Internet review on this subject indicates that the Bridgestone Potenza RE950 > is the ticket. While the RE950 is a very good tire in the summer (for an all-season), I'm not sure you'd describe its snow performance as better than "marginal"...if not "white-knuckled." Most other all-seasons are somewhat better in snow than the 950, though significantly worse in summer. If you need reliable snow capability in a Miata, buy an extra set of (steel) wheels and mount real winter tires. Do the math: if your insurance deductible is $500, you'll be making money the first time you use them and don't run into anything. See tirerack.com. Alternatively, use a beater Honda or Toyota for snow. Like I do. The real advantage to this plan is that it frees you to use real performance tires for the rest of the year. No Miata owner should suffer with all-seasons in top-down weather! As a bonus, summer performance tires are also amazingly grippy and predictable in the wet, orders of magnitude better than any all-season. They don't last very long, but on a Miata, tires are a consumable, part of the price of letting the car perform to its potential. If you bought the Miata as a sports car, not just a cute convertible, then don't scrimp on tires. -- Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA '94C the alignment page: http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html |
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> >The real advantage to this plan is that it frees you to use real >performance tires for the rest of the year. No Miata owner should suffer >with all-seasons in top-down weather! As a bonus, summer performance >tires are also amazingly grippy and predictable in the wet, orders of >magnitude better than any all-season. They don't last very long, but on >a Miata, tires are a consumable, part of the price of letting the car >perform to its potential. If you bought the Miata as a sports car, not >just a cute convertible, then don't scrimp on tires. > >-- >Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA >'94C >the alignment page: >http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html Why are summer tires better in the wet? |
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"Mike Danielson" > wrote in message >...
> I want to replace them with a quiet and safe tire that > is useful in snow that is up to a couple of inches deep and yet will > work OK during the summer. My Internet review on this subject indicates > that the Bridgestone Potenza RE950 is the ticket. RE950's in snow? I kind of doubt those claims. I have a friend with them who has on his miata. He and the towing company that pulled him out of the ditch last winter will back me up. |
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On 2004-10-22, Mike Danielson > wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Ditch the MIME crap, eh? > I have a 2002 Miata with the awful Turanza tires that are > worthless on slippery roads. I want to replace them with a > quiet and safe tire that is useful in snow that is up to a > couple of inches deep and yet will work OK during the summer. No such thing. Tires that are useful in snow are not OK during the summer. Tires that are OK during summer are not useful in snow. The closest you're going to be able to find are "high performance winter" tires like the Nokian WR or the Michelin PA2. > My Internet review on this subject indicates that the > Bridgestone Potenza RE950 is the ticket. I've driven Potenza RE-something tires (very similar to 950's) in light snow. That's something you only do once. You either get killed, or you buy snow tires the next morning. > Here is my problem--my tire size is 205/45R16 and the Potenza > does not come in that size. What would you recomend? Get a set of "high performance winter tires" mounted on a second set of wheels (14 or 15 inch). TireRack.com has packages. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! A can of ASPARAGUS, at 73 pigeons, some LIVE ammo, visi.com and a FROZEN DAQUIRI!! |
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