.. Its supposed to be 10 on Wednesday, I'm going for it.

you sound like a 16 year old when you say rims instead of wheels. sick rims brah

since the mazda's been smashed I have summers only on the Mini. Needless to say I've been staying home most days and hitching rides to work. It sux

Awww.. Will you give me a ride home at least?

Did you say AWD with winters and a hitch? Here's my turd in 18" deep snow

On the TL??

How come we can see most of your 19" rims in 18" deep snow?

I am putting my summers on in about a week. Bought coilovers and will drop the car and change out the sway bars. I am too lazy to jack up the car again after that to swap wheels so it's all getting changed next week during the suspension swap.

GNSP.

that's because his Turd has 20" ground clearance yo! Do the math: 18" of snow, bottom of chassis approx 2" above the snow.

bcuz ricer at heart lol.

i have to find some new sticky summers for the R...think i'll drop back to a 205/50/16 from the offsize 215/45/16...have to see what's out there, have tried quite a few brands. usually i'd just do an RS3 or RE11 as dd/lapping duty but tempted to go stickier like A048 or 888 or something (using it for both dd/lapping).

If you don't do an R comp, try out the dunlop direzza z2. I think for a non R-comp, they're my favorite so far. Don't get me wrong, I loved the RE-11 as well but I was able to dial out more understeer with the z2 just by adjusting tire pressures a little.

I wonder if SimplyTire does a summer tire groupbuy too.

Nice yeah forgot about z2, i've used the starspec z1 back on the day on the s2k and they were decent but needed to heat up. they were the bloody loudest non-Rcomp though (not that it matters on my R now).

Beats me. I don't have a car to put them on (yet)

So you going to let the cat out of the bag already? Jfc

Did you sell nsx?
What are you thinking to replace it with?

I am gonna pile in here, for my tl the pss or dunlops? 235/40/18...going to see about 5k/year in driving so treadwear isn't overly important just looking for something half decent and sticky.

Also where do you buy your tires here?

for your kind of driving?

get a cheap falken.

I am gonna pile in here, for my tl the pss or dunlops? 235/40/18...going to see about 5k/year in driving so treadwear isn't overly important just looking for something half decent and sticky.

Also where do you buy your tires here?

Based on the things I'm looking at, 235 would make a nice spare tire

My 453s are a great tire. So much better than my Bridgestones(which I know are garbage to begin with)

They are quiet, smooth and handle very well with spirited street/backroad driving. Hopefully I'll see how they handle a few track days this summer. But for what I paid for them, I feel like I got an excellent tire. I would buy them again for sure.

dont touch dunlops they're harder and louder than most (across the board), in your TL you'll be annoyed and the car will feel noisier and cheaper esp at hwy speeds.

pss ballin, not bad. check out conti's they're always a great choice. i like bridgestone but not they're low end stuff.

like euphoric said you maybe don't need to break the bank with pss or conti's...doubt you want anything goodyear either. so checkout a decent falken or yokohama all-round sport all-season tire. (depending how 'sporty' you wanna go. yoko makes some decent models for the money. there's always toyo too.

you talking about the dunlop direzzas? i went with them, slightly better tire than the falkins, i read about how they were noisy but mine are not noisy at all. could be that the tlx is a quiet car but still, i've had yoko's that are much noisier. they are decently sticky too, no track tire but great for what they are.

There are multiple dorezzas. Dz101 and dz102, which are the junk ones...and z1/z2/starspec which are the track ones. The z2 and z1 are mad loud even on my s4. Like super ridic loud. I would highly advise against these for DD.

Btw ed wtf u have re71r what for. They wear mad quick. The tread wear rating on that tire is bogus XD people are getting like 3 days out of those tires before they cycle out

holllldddd up.

i have the dz102's on the 20's. they are plenty sticky for a street tire not to mention they cost almost $1000. you mean to tell me you guys are running basicaly track tires on the street? how hard are you taking that yonge street onramp? lol also you guys are buying $1000+ tires that wear out in two years? i didn't realize this place was that baller

Yo wut srsly. I track the car. Go through 1 set of tires annually. If u must know about yonge St, I can do that ramp at 140 on winters :p not safe to do on summers BC velocity would be way high and it's a blind corner XD

Dz102 is good for street I give it that. Sorry, maybe "crap" was a poor adjective to use. But performance wise, comparing a dz dirrezza to a z dirrezza is like night and day fa realz. Not on the same level at all. Fwiw I drove a d101 on track and it was pooooo. I know dz102 has been much improved doe. But still far behind other tires in it's segment.

oh no i know you track but most people don't. i'm saying that i can take the majormac to 400 south on ramp (long tight right turn) very hard and the tires don't even make any noise, so short of that how much performance does one need for the street?

my tires may be garbage but they are more than enough for the street i find, i mean, there are much cheaper tires out there like sailuns and shit.

$1000 for all 4? You drive a civic still ?


Imagine all this shit now a days with 19s and 20s. You gun get raped

+1 I agree all the way. No need for insanity on the street it is a waste. Plus it is not fun to have a less grippy tire... More entertaining on the street. As long as tire characteristics are good (steering feel, steering response, noise and wet traction etc), then that's all that matters. IMO on the street, finding a tire that feels good is paramount. I don't disagree with u here

Fwiw doe some tires do not make noise even when traction is broken. Noise is not an indication of on limit adhesion.

Fairview? lol too far

Took car for test drive hoping wheel falls off. Apparently with spacers it's standard practice to have a wheel or two fly off at one point or another.

Would've been a fitting place for it to happen at markville.

this will be risky soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z51HgIouwE

this will be risky soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z51HgIouwE

not if you get extended studs (not always needed)

That TL was the best of them all.


Drove my coworkers 2013 IS-F. I want that!!

Risky, what % is your tints? I like them

Go drive an M3 and tell us how you feel then.

It might be a nice drive, but it loses when it goes up against an equivalent year M3.

and dur to ppl, haven't learned yet? no summers until at least mid-late April.

Will have to brush off the car one last time tomorrow...hopefully.

Hope denied.

Hope denied.