[pure&simple]

>> I mentioned them.

Whoops... sorry I missed it. I was thinking of threads I've read in the past 9-12 months.

>> these tires start howling louder than anything I have ever heard on a car.

Not that bad for me, but they are definitely not quiet. I think road noise actually decreases as they get older...

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[Chris Vais]

I'm currently running on my second set of Bridgestone Potenza RE050A Pole Positions. No complaints, I got 30,000 miles or thereabouts on the first set. I don't track or auto-X the car. They do fine in the rain and provide sufficient grip for the level of hard diving that I do. In the 14 years that I have owned the car, I've run Michelin Pilots, Brdgestone SO-2, SO-3, and the RE050A. I don't know that I could tell you that there was that much difference.

In all this time, I've never had the car get away from me due to a loss of grip. I've had it hydroplane in the rain more than once. I have noticed with the RE050As that I can break traction if I apply too much power on a surface that is marginly slicker than pavement, say like the street paint on a cross walk or railroad rails placed in the street.

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[rxter]

Refreshing this topic. I'd like to hear from the folks with Yoko Advan Neova AD08 and Sumi HTRZ IIIs - how are things holding up. Not too interested in wear per se as I expect none of these tires to last much beyond 20K miles. More interested in how the grip, handling and noise characteristics have held up over time. I've about run my PS2s ragged (got just over 20K) and I liked them a lot, but I hate doing the same thing twice - life is too short.

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[lbpesq]

I've had the Sumi's for around 6 or 7K miles now. Love them. They stick to the road and the noise isn't bad. Admittedly though, I don't have much to compare them to as I put them on as soon as I found my wheels shortly after buying the car.



Bill

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[PhilG968]

I have the Sumi HTRZ IIIs, this will be the third summer coming up on the fronts. I put new rears on last summer. I'm getting really high mileage from these, but maybe because I do a lot of highway driving. They stick great, and continue to have low noise. Its hard to vote against them for quality and price.

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[smshirk]

The Dunlop Direzza's are great tires, with lots of grip, but of all the tires I've had on four different cars in the last few years the GY F1 GS D3's are the best tires I've ever had. I can't wear them out. They were on my 996 for 10k miles when I sold the car, so I put new tires on it and moved them over to the Boxster for 5k, and they are now on the 968. The rears still have about half tread and the fronts are 80% and just now getting a little noisy. By comparison Pilot Sports last only 10k on the rear of 996, and my Direzza's are half gone on my Boxster with less than 5k miles, but with a lot of hard driving. They have good grip, particularly in the wet, but since I don't track I have no reference with grip at the edge of performance. It's a shame they MD'd the tires. I guess planned obsolescence is an important aspect of engineering consumer products.

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