new tires, new brakes

[Luke4567]

im gonna be getting some new tires and brakes and wondered what brand you recommend tire wise and brakes as for performance tires like streetuse and performance brake i hear for brakes hawk was good but what about tires?

[eddie926]

When you say street use and performance tires, it's not clear to me if you're wanting summer tires or a performance all-season.

I decided on the Bridgestone Potenza G019 and am having a set installed today or tomorrow. It's Bridgestone's new replacement for the Potenza G009. You can check out both tires at TireRack.com

[BlueFusion6851]

I have the factory recommended Yokohama Avid TRZ installed on mine, and the work for pretty much everything I've ran into so far this year. I think they have a more performance oriented AVID tire that you would like.

[Luke4567]

Originally Posted by eddie926

When you say street use and performance tires, it's not clear to me if you're wanting summer tires or a performance all-season.

I decided on the Bridgestone Potenza G019 and am having a set installed today or tomorrow. It's Bridgestone's new replacement for the Potenza G009. You can check out both tires at TireRack.com

yea sorry performance all season?

[eddie926]

Well, like I said, you can check them out on TireRack.com

My friend who is a Toyota mechanic, highly recommended the G009 and said he had had very good luck with them on personal cars and on numerous customer's cars. I can't get the G009 locally any more, but the G019 is it's successor. My friend has never steered me wrong, so I'm confident it will be a good tire for me. I'll be driving on them today or tomorrow, so could give some direct wet/dry performance feedback in the next week or so. Unfortunately, won't be able to give any snow/ice performance feedback 'til next winter.

You can read reviews on the Yokohamas that BlueFusion noted at TireRack as well.

The Bridgestones and Yokohamas are both mid priced. Not as cheap as say Fuzion or Khumo, but not as pricey as Michelins. I was looking at the Yokohamas as well, but ended up going with the Bridgestone on my friend's recommendation.

[felonyr301]

Performance all seasons suck!!! Better off using that money and buy performance summer tires and having winter tires for the cold or at least keep the stock tires and wheels for the winter much better solution!!!

Don't want to be running your rims in the winter time anyways.

[bigbird]

Originally Posted by felonyr301

Performance all seasons suck!!! Better off using that money and buy performance summer tires and having winter tires for the cold or at least keep the stock tires and wheels for the winter much better solution!!!

Don't want to be running your rims in the winter time anyways.

+1. performance and all season dont belong in the same sentence. i roll on khumo ecsta 712s and they are great. i, however, am willing to compromise on fowl weather performance since we dont get a whole lot where i live.

[eddie926]

Originally Posted by felonyr301

Performance all seasons suck!!! Better off using that money and buy performance summer tires and having winter tires for the cold or at least keep the stock tires and wheels for the winter much better solution!!!

Don't want to be running your rims in the winter time anyways.

Well, that depends on the person and their situation. Where I live, I seldom need true winter tires. We just don't get that much snow. On the other end of the scale, I don't race or autocross my car, and I've never been into a situation on the street that a good performance all-season couldn't handle. And mind you, I like to throw my car into some good high G turns just as much as the next guy.

A lot of people don't want to mess with two sets of wheels and tires, and they may not have a place to store the set that's not in use.

I agree, if you live in a heavier snow area and you can truly benefit from winter tires AND you want the ultimate in performance tires during the non-winter months AND you can afford two sets of wheels/tires AND have a place to store the second set then that's the ultimate way to go.

However, good performance all-seasons on a single set of wheels are a very good compromise for a lot of folks.

[bigbird]

Originally Posted by eddie926

However, good performance all-seasons on a single set of wheels are a very good compromise for a lot of folks.

this is true.

[Black95Cam]

im rolling on the falken ziex 512s.. got em at a good deal so not complaining.