205-50-15/225-50-15 tire options, What's out there I haven't considered Options

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Looking for new tires. Drive my car 6-10k/year. Varies depending on what I do and what the weather is like.

Here's the options I know about.

ADVAN A048
Toyo R888
Toyo RA1
Falken Ziex 912
Khumo Ecsta AST
Maxxis MA Z4S

My experience is these cars are pretty easy on tires unless you are running a real aggressive alignment.

In the passed I've run Michelin SXGT. These lasted many summers. Hankook RS2 and Dunlop Direzza seemed to last just right, but I'd like a little more diameter in the rear for gearing. Dunlop and Hankook are now only making a 225/45/15.

I'm tempted to run RA-1's and see what happens. They wear real well on Miata's running 24 hour races, but I'm not sure I'd get much more than one summer out of them. 3 summers would be fine for me.

Any other ideas?

Kelly

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Sorry guys, I have some other experience with the toyo tires I should have shared earlier. My mom and dad have been runing RA1's on their 914 for about 8 years. I also used to run Khumo Victoracers for weeks at a time when I was autocrossing and was too busy to swap tires.

Scotty, I have not seen the cracking issues you have been referring to on the toyos or the Khumo Victoracers. Maybe this has to do with less heat here on the northeast. You bring up a valid point though. If the RA1's are just going to get rock hard after a couple years, if the tread lasts that long, there's really no advantage over running the falkens. My mom and dad are retired, so their car doesn't see a lot of miles and it's mostly driven by my mom no so aggresively. It's possible they are now hard as rocks as I haven't driven their car in 3 or 4 years.

My concern about the Khumo, Falken, and Maxxis high performance all season tires is with wear ratings over 350 I've found these tires take so long to run off I end up chucking them with tread left because the traction goes down so much in the rain.

What I'd really like is for Dunlop to make the Direzza in 225-50-15, but that doesn't seem so likely. Just looking to see if there are options out there I have overlooked.

Thanks,

kelly