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Decided to get new Rubber.

Old 11-19-08, 07:27 PM
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Default Decided to get new Rubber.

So yea after running over something sharp. I decided to buy new rear tires (fronts were already chaned)

so i went with Nitto Invos.









ive yet to actually see if they are good.. and iono how since i dont have an LSD =[

whatcha guys think?

they are 245/40ZR18 on 18x9.5
Old 11-19-08, 08:03 PM
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I had them on my G35 sedan . I liked them and though they were quiet. I liked the tread design then, but I think I am gonna stick with the falken fk452.
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woa the tread looks real nice
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Originally Posted by I8ABMR
I had them on my G35 sedan . I liked them and though they were quiet. I liked the tread design then, but I think I am gonna stick with the falken fk452.
any reason why?


woa the tread looks real nice

yea hah i agree.. Thats why i got em =].. i remember the first time i saw these tires. I told myself that i HAD to buy these next.
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hopefully they are better than the rest of the Nitto's... nt450's and 555's (all three styles) all suck and get rock hard after about a year, sometimes less...
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Only time will tell my friend.
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Originally Posted by mitsuguy
hopefully they are better than the rest of the Nitto's... nt450's and 555's (all three styles) all suck and get rock hard after about a year, sometimes less...
Mitsuguy- i was wondering.. what do you mean they get rock hard after awhile?
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Originally Posted by vwynn
Mitsuguy- i was wondering.. what do you mean they get rock hard after awhile?
every Nitto I've ever seen has gotten hard and traction has fallen off dramatically after 10,000 or so miles, or a years worth of time... significantly less on the drag radials... I had a friend who swore by them on a Firebird... the car got faster times on the Nitto drag radials when they were new, but when they were about half worn, they actually started getting worse times than his street tires (which were nothing special, just some Firestone SZ50's, IIRC), same size, same everything... the tires were only 6 months old... ok, so, those are drag tires - I personally had Nitto NT555's on my 3000GT a long time ago... same deal, except these were street tires... at first, they were great, but after about a years time and 15,000 miles, they lost soooo much wet traction (and dry too) that I trashed them for some entry level Kumho's (I was poor at the time, but the 555's were killing me) The Kumho's didn't last for crap mileage wise though, but I ended up selling that car before I put a different set of tires on it...

Fast forward to today - I got 30k out of a set of BFG KDW's over almost 3 years and they were as sticky the day I exchanged them as they were the day I bought them...
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Good choice on the INVO's they hook up very well even in cold weather.

I am on my second set on the VIPER (1set on my iFORGED, another set on my D2FORGED)
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