Need New Tires

**Zelmon** · 04-16-10, 11:10 PM

I need new tires. 215/45R17. I'm looking for a tire that will give good comfortable highway driving, quiet, etc. Ive got a spare set of rims for *ahem* aggressive driving so I need something for everyday. They also need to be excellent in the rain. I don't want to spend more than 100 per tire though.

**619summon** · 04-16-10, 11:21 PM

im running the same size goodyear egale F1's on the subaru right now. good tires, but i had to return one cause it would not hold air. which makes me think the other tires are loosing air so i check them constantly.

tires are kinda like coffee what i might like you might think is awful, your gonna have to find what works for you in the end.

**Zelmon** · 04-17-10, 02:33 AM

True, true. Well sounds like you have problems with your's so thats kinda the thing Im looking for. Ive got goodyear GT's on there right now and they are a little too harsh for everyday driving, but I noticed a fairly large performance boost. If that helps anybody...

**Nuckle** · 04-18-10, 07:45 AM

Bridgestone's served me well as a semi performance tire. Ride was quiet and I was able to get about 40k our of a set on a G35. They performed pretty well.

**Hitch** · 04-18-10, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Nuckle

Bridgestone's served me well as a semi performance tire. Ride was quiet and I was able to get about 40k our of a set on a G35. They performed pretty well.

You got 35k in a G35 on ANY tire? WOW. That is amazing, since many G35s I inspect are chowing down on the inside edges of the fronts. Were you able to find an alignment shop that knows how to prevent this? I've had some customers do cross/flip rim rotation to maximize use. I am thinking 25K with normal rotation is about average.

Brigdestone makes some nice skins, my previous speeder used Potenzas out back and Continentals up front. Those tires lasted a long time with a ton of haul ass driving.

Felix da Cat is considering a G35, however, the tire issue is keeping his eyebrow up.

What year is your G35? 2dr or 4dr (not that it should matter)? I think they are great cars. I inspect 700-800 cars per year for buyers, and bang for the buck is flying in Nissan/Infiniti airspace IMO.

Hitch

**619summon** · 04-18-10, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by Zelmon

True, true. Well sounds like you have problems with your's so thats kinda the thing Im looking for. Ive got goodyear GT's on there right now and they are a little too harsh for everyday driving, but I noticed a fairly large performance boost. If that helps anybody...

if you looking for a softer tire try michelin. even with the nice ride the have stiff sidewalls. yokos have a nice soft compond too, but I never owned any myself so i can say what they are like on the rd.

**Nuckle** · 04-18-10, 05:28 PM

Hitch,

My G35 was a 2003 4 door. I bought it new is 200e and it was one of the first off the line. I kept it for 2.5 years and put around 80k miles on it. 2 sets of tires and a set of brakes during that time. I was probably 80/20 highway/city miles. Only other issue I had was sucking the roof liner down while doing 150mph with the sun roof open. I miss that car. Would really like to have a M56.

**deathgodusmc** · 04-18-10, 07:36 PM

There isn't a whole lot of middle ground. Soft tires less noise hard tires longer wearlife. Last set of tires i put on my truck before last weekend anyway were a set of timberland 2's. I got about 75k out of those but they were like 150 a piece. I probable could have gotten quite a bit more out of them had i of been inspecting the front end of my truck once in a while. Destroyed them because the bearing, tierods, and idoler arm all were going or went bad.