#8583077 - 03/09/16 09:36 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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4age
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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? 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.
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#8583085 - 03/09/16 09:50 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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titty sprinkles
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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? 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.
Edited by titty sprinkles (03/09/16 09:51 PM)
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#8583807 - 03/10/16 03:05 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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titty sprinkles
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$1000 for all 4? You drive a civic still ?
Imagine all this shit now a days with 19s and 20s. You gun get raped
that was for the 20's brah
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.
+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.
maybe it's just me but the 102's have all those characteristics, feelZ, steering response, great in the rain too. it could be because they are fresh but i can't get them to push even with the size of the boat tlx. i remember running bridgestone RE010's and the yoko ES100's and those were loud as shit.
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#8584115 - 03/10/16 06:42 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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The Postman
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Here's a dumb question, are SUV tires specific? What I mean is can I use a proper sized performance tire on my RDX or do they have to be SUV specific? Do they make performance oriented light truck tires?
Looking at a set of Bridgestone RE760's for the TLX as recommend my Allen from ST.
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#8584257 - 03/10/16 08:43 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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spd-dmn
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They def make perf oriented suv tires
No they do not need to be specific
Best to ensure factory overall diameter if possible to optimize abs/esc function
And just ensure tire load limit is within the vehicle gvwr
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#8596361 - 03/22/16 07:12 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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#8596365 - 03/22/16 07:20 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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Whatchoo doing at Fairview? I put my summers on because we had +18 in the beginning of march, and then put the winters back on this weekend 
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#8596377 - 03/22/16 07:27 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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Fairview? lol too far
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#8596386 - 03/22/16 07:36 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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Choco 'Nuck
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I meant markville, not sure why I said fairview....
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#8596401 - 03/22/16 07:48 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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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.
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#8596501 - 03/22/16 09:24 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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#8596504 - 03/22/16 09:26 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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#8596516 - 03/22/16 09:36 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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#8597440 - 03/22/16 07:18 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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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. not if you get extended studs  (not always needed)
I tore a wheel off my mustang with spacers and extended studs (replaced the stock studs with decent race studs). The safest way is use a spacer with an integrated second set of studs. The shear point is limited that way.
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#8597445 - 03/22/16 07:20 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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I should add car looks good man
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#8597815 - 03/23/16 07:20 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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Thanks everyone, glad people like it. I really enjoy the lines of this car, maybe I am biased, but it sure feels like it's one of the nicer looking sedans out there once you do a few subtle mods. I was getting crazy ADD mid winter was going to get a new car, started looking at many different options, in the end decided to just throw a few mods at this one and make it last.
I used Tein coilovers, there was a sale for 30% off with an acurazine vendor so I jumped on it.
Car rides about 20%-30% stiffer than stock, but that's a combination of switching from winter tires to summers with a lower profile, upgraded rear sway bar, and uncalibrated butt dyno feelz. Can't really tell what made the biggest difference, but the car definitely feels a lot more nimble now.
I used the Ichiba V2 spacers, they are spacers that bolt up to your hub and then you bolt up your wheel to that. Like Jeff said, they are supposed to be better, we will see.
Need to schedule an alignment with level one auto and then possibly get new tires or maybe make these last a season and get the tires next year.
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#8598897 - 03/23/16 09:13 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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If Acura could slide my TLX's 3.5 and SH-AWD into a car that looked like Riskys, they'd have a winner.
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#8598957 - 03/23/16 10:14 PM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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Denis Si
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That TL was the best of them all.
Drove my coworkers 2013 IS-F. I want that!!
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#8599215 - 03/24/16 07:29 AM
Re: Too early for summer tires?
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Risky, what % is your tints? I like them
IIRC 20% all around.
In the pic they look like 5%, but they are lighter than that.
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