Big Andy

Manufacturers don't limit themselves to one tire supplier for obvious reasons - a supply breakdown would stop production. Instead they specify 2 or 3 similar tires from different manufacturers.

ecr527

I got my car in late December and it came with the Dunlop Sport Maxx tires. I haven't had any problems with it what so ever.

Belmont

Wow, those tires are highly rated.

According to TireRack they're at the top of the class as far as max performance summer tires go. That's a pleasant surprise, depending on if you put any stock in their testing or not.

4TehNguyen

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only has 250k miles tested others are are in multi millions of miles

Belmont

Eh, 250k or 20 million isn't going to change anything.

4TehNguyen

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reviews are highly skewed if there arent enough samples, if i was the first person to rate it and gave it a 10/10 with whatever 5k miles reported would you get it because tirerack was showing a 10/10 from a single reviewer, its basic statistics. And Id rather get real testing from a magazine other than people who post "BEST TIRES EVER BUY IT" as the only thing in their reviews. Geezus PS2 with road hazard is almost 200 more than sport maxx/GS-D3 with road hazard

Belmont

Do you have any other reviews?

I don't trust a thing C&D writes, and I'd really be interested to find out what the top 5 or so tires are in this segment from a true unbiased source.

4TehNguyen

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another goodyear article, lower left is the C&D article but the Euro Tuner article test isnt that great, they got driver reviews instead of actual numbers:
http://www.goodyeartires.com/cfmx/we...?PRODLINE=1197

went to the michelin site couldnt locate any articles on the PS2 nor on the dunlop site for sport maxx

tirerack has some tests that arent as opinionated/vague as the user reviews:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/bs_RE050A_rd.jsp
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/...sport_maxx.jsp

PS2 looks to be a great tire but the numbers dont really show it to be $200/set better than sport maxx or GS-D3 (set of each of these tires costs almost the same)

Solomoan

Came with the Bridgestone Potenza's, which I have since given to a friend for their 02 Nissan Maxima. At least I got some goodwill out of these pieces of junk...I put a whopping 900 miles on em before getting my Toyo Proxes.

al503

I think there is a reasonable sample size for the Maxx to give the results more credence than you do. I've been looking for the Maxx to drop from first place each time they update the ratings but it hasn't happened.

One major reasons for the existence of stats is to make predictions based on very small (relatively speaking) samples.

I don't know if it'll stay #1 but I'd be willing to wager that it will stay near the top after many more miles and reviews.

paeko73

What's wrong with the Bridgestone Potenza RE92's? My 17"RWD came with those. I don't see anything wrong with them at all!

Magellan

Ours came with Bridgestone RE050's on 18” rims, chromed, most likely, by the dealer. The manufacture date is 5/06, which seems quite recent in that we bought it on 6/25/06.

webra

How are the Toyos working out? Paricularly in noise and ride, over the stock tires? Are you using T1-R's?

Thanks,

deuce2

so what tires are a cheaper and better alternative to the OEMs?...mine also came with the dunlops..

4TehNguyen

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many more will agree with me but later on they become extremely unsafe. I had these on my prelude as OEM. Well before hitting the treadwear indicator bars, the tires would lose traction when the road surface changed from asphault to concrete or vice versa and the amount of throttle didnt change. I even tested it when the road surface changed when there was 0% throttle and it still lost traction and skidded. Prelude was a manual and when I had to start on a hill, even with A/C it still spun the tires with little throttle. It was terrifying. Also they costed as much as the 18" low pro tires that replaced them when I got new wheels which had many times more traction. A Post-It grips better than RE92s

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....l=Potenza+RE92

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....=Potenza+RE92A