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Tire Life of RE050A (sport tires)?

Time to buy rear tires again, got 17,247 miles out of the Bridgestone Potenza RE-11 285/35R19 I put on the rear, at about 3/32s now. I checked on our OEM

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Old 07-23-2011, 05:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Time to buy rear tires again, got 17,247 miles out of the Bridgestone Potenza RE-11 285/35R19 I put on the rear, at about 3/32s now.

I checked on our OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE050A & they have gone up $30 since I checked a year ago (now $320 a tire)!
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Looking to go back to OEM specs, starting to search the forum for RE050A equivalents (not looking to downgrade in performance, not interested in Hankooks).
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Time to buy rear tires again, got 17,247 miles out of the Bridgestone Potenza RE-11 285/35R19 I put on the rear, at about 3/32s now.

I checked on our OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE050A & they have gone up $30 since I checked a year ago (now $320 a tire)!
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Looking to go back to OEM specs, starting to search the forum for RE050A equivalents (not looking to downgrade in performance, not interested in Hankooks).
Any reason why you are not getting RE-11's again?
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Any reason why you are not getting RE-11's again?
Compared to the OEM rears the RE-11s rear tires introduced
understeer, and raised my back end resulting in a more
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