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Originally Posted by S13 Charlie
I've talked to a contact I have at Falken when I got my tires, and she told me that despite the 360 treadwear rating, most people only get about 20,000 miles on their ST-115's, which isn't much for a 360.
Cheers,
C
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I picked up a set of Falken Ziex 512's recently, mostly for their really cheap price but when I took 'em to the wheel shop to get mounted, the guy wasn't thrilled to see another set of 512's in his shop.
He was telling me that they used to sell that tire but then people complained about getting only about 12k miles out of them before needing replacement so they stopped carrying them. I figured that since they were catering mostly to SUV's and trucks, that they weren't working with people with smaller cars, sedans and such.
His response was that the complaints were from a variety of car owners. I decided to start reading the reviews about the Ziex online and they were all over the place --- good reviews with people claiming to get 60k miles out of them and others who only got 8-10k miles out of their tires. I was wondering if anyone could comment on it? Then again, if they're drift tires... they meant to be abused and used up within a few hundred miles.
And finally something on topic...
Why not get a set of 15" wheels to drift with instead? Tires are much cheaper than 17" tires. Doesn't matter what brand you're running, smaller diameter tires are always cheaper and that means more money for more tires/drifting.
I figure for drift events, I'll go back down to a stock 15" for events... just need to find some 5-lug steelies or something.
-Aaron
'91 240sx coupe