Tyres for longevity and grip
 

Hey fam,

Just wondering what tyres are the best for longevity, price and grip on the 370z. I run the stock bridgestone potenza's re050a. Does anyone know which pattern lasts longer on the potenza's or can anyone recommend an alternative? If there's a thread on this can you direct me to it? ;)
Use for them is basically daily driving.

Thanks!

IMO.the criteria you have given--longevity,price and grip is darn near impossible to
find in one tire.
You basically have to give up something to get what you want.
Of the 3 "wants" you mentioned,price will be the most difficult.
If price was not a factor,I'd suggest Michelin Pilots for a overall tire.
I am fond of Hankook V-12's for a great daily driver tire.

BFG Comps

Continental ExtremeContact DW's are also a very good alternative to the Michelin's, since the PSS's are pretty hard to find in certain sizes right now.

Just realised I might need them in 19x9.5 and 19x11...

Natural choice would be the Bridgestone S04.

get 245/40/19 and 285/35/19 (not the 275/35/19 as they are narrow)

:iagree:

S-04 for the price/performance value :twocents:

Stock RE050s have terrible tread wear if you push their performance at all.

Agreed! Wearing mine out at 14k. Happy they lasted that long to be honest.

mine was gone by 8k.. :ugh:

my re-11's lasted two years and ~20k miles

I like to tell people that my wife wore out the stock RE050s in 10K miles of daily driving. But the truth is I was tearing up those tires almost every weekend :icon17: :driving:

really, dat's waay better than i anticipated. :tup: im on RE11's right now.


:icon18:

So4 gets my vote. They are really nice tires for the $. The only problem is that I should of went 1 size bigger in the back knowing that I was going to be boosted. I think It would of helped with some strait line grip. Now I'm thinking of trying a different set of tires after these wear out (probably just the back 2 since they will wear faster).

YzGYz

yeah on top of that i had -2.5 degree camber in the rear, 3 autox's and countless digs from a stop under my belt. these were the "updated" re-11's with 200 treadwear (not sure if anything else was updated other than the treadwear). i believe they used to be 180.

Just put a set on my car. If I can get 20k out of the rear, I will be happy. I did get 24K out of SO-4's. They had a little bit of tread left (2mm), it's just been to rainy to push them to far. Too Risky.

cool yah, mine is the 200AA too. :tup:

Just a bit of topic,i heard the Michelin PSS is lighter than any Bridgestone tyres,anyone can comfirmed.?

Will that size fit stock rims?

The S-04s run a bit narrow, so he was suggesting that you go up a size to be closer to the size of the OEM tires. You can run a 305 on the rear sport rims easy :driving:

Sweeeeet! Thanks for this :bowrofl: How about the fronts?

I've run 265 up front. I think you can run a 275. At stock height.

Note that I when I go up in width a few sizes, I usually go down in profile to keep the diameter as close to OEM tires as possible (this keeps the speedo more accurate). I like to run 255-265/35/19 up front and 285-305/30/19 in the rear.

yes it will.

The 245/40/19 is normal width but for some reason bridgestone made their 275/35/19's narrow. probably for them fella flush a toilet type folks, maybe?

for the rear, get the 285/35/19 which are nismo size, but will fit the 10" width Sport wheels just fine.

see the specs tab:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....=Potenza+RE-11

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....ot+Super+Sport

the PSS's are lighter when comparing same size tires, at least in 19's