[RPM]

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12k on mine with no such problem. Even wear, good grip, and low noise.

Gotta watch out for those web forum rumors [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

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[flash]

tires behave differently on different types of cars too - the best tire i ever tried on my mgb was the one that people complained about constantly because it didn't last at all on their cars

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[PhilG968]

About 12 - 15 thousand on my Sumitomos as well, nothing but good things to say about them.

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[ds968]

Always tough to determine just how much credibility you can give everything you see on the web, in various performance car forums, particularly when it comes to tires because I can't think of a single other feature where there is greater subjectivity and as many variables that compound that subjectivity factor, than the one relative to
tire performance opinions. Aso, considering many of the reviews I looked at ( and not just on the Sumis, but about half dozen other brands and models I was considering ) were from Zs, or Mustangs, or ricer car forums which automatically came up to the forefront of the search category option, where I'd tend to think driving habits and thus tire usage differs vastly from ours, I wasn't necessarily convinced by them, but there was sufficient consistency among a few reports on a couple of brands where I started questioning if there is some truth behind it. So I just flipped a coin and the Dunlop Stars won the toss, but it was not a lot more scientific than that. Obviously [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img] , since not a single post mentioned anything about the noise these tires make at 80-mph. Along the same lines, the Ultrac Sessantas I had on, according to every single review was supposed to be the next holy grail in tires [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif[/img] in every respect ! Wrong again, so I should have learned from that, but the choices are simply too tough when you're almost convinced a particular tire is great and just when you're ready to buy a set another one surfaces
which is ( ostensibly ) the next generation of performance and supposedly a lot better than the one you had planned to get.

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[Lord_Galva]

Gahhhh.

I liked my tires for the honeymoon period but now I see all the flaws.
I got some General Tire Altimax HP's and they are not what I want in a tire.

They let go too early (lose traction), but I guess I'm expecting too much from all season tires.
I'm probably going to try some summer tires, which cost less than the all season. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mellow.gif[/img]
The problem is the weird tire size 195/60 14. Tons of all seasons but just two summer.
A Sumitomo and a Yokohama.
Sigh.
Perhapse I should save up for those wheel adaptors so I can put my spare set of 968 wheels on the Audi. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

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