Tires

[scirocco25 at gmail.com (Eric Person)]

The new Kumho SPT are 230 a set and seem to be better than the 712's 
that they are replacing.  I'm not a huge fan of the 712s even tho I have 
them on my car now. I have seen the 712's wear pretty fast as well, and 
they cup quickly unless you rotate them frequently.  From what Ive been 
hearing, the spt are better in most aspects than the 712 and only ~25 
more a set.

The 711 are pretty hard tires, if its only 40 dollars or so, I would go 
with the ES100.  Even the dunlop fm901 are on special now but for only 
10 bucks less than es100 or the SPT I doubt its worth it for those.  But 
any of those is better than the 711 for not a whole lot more money.  The 
711 isnt a bad tire for the price at all, considering they are only 160 
a set, but its such a marginal increase in price for quite a jump in 
performance to go with something in the range of the es100 or similar.

Eric Person
86.5 16v

Gordy Stedman wrote:
> I was looking at getting either some Kumho Ecsta 711 or for $44 more I
> could upgrade to a set of Yokohama AVS ES 100 (195-50-15).  Wanted an
> inexpensive but capable tire that is good in both dry and wet that I
> could get 30K from.  Anyone have any thoughts on comments on either? 
> TIA.
>