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Re: Coolknight and Dr. Eric: How do SP9000s wear?
Posted by Dr. Eric Strauss (more from Dr. Eric Strauss) on Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:40:22
In Reply to: Coolknight and Dr. Eric: How do SP9000s wear?, John Davies, Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:05:04
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Hi John
My experience with SP900's has been on one front driver ('97 Honda Prelude 215/45-17), one rear driver (98 BMW 3-series 235/40-17) and one all wheel drive ('01 Audi TT quattro 225hp 225/45-17). In all cases, I have gotten at least 30k from the tires, and I replace tires faily early in their duty cycle. I do a lot of highway driving (35K/year, 160/day) - but enjoy aggressive cornering whenever possible (I work in Boston, but live on rural Cape Cod with 4-7 miles of twisties each day on the way home after the exit ramp!). Naturally, in our temperate climate, I use real snow tires Dec-April.
These tires are fantastic in the wet - the best I have ever used (by comparison, I have owned Sp8000's and SP8080's, Continental Sport Contacts, Yokohama AVS Intermediates and A520's, Michelin Pilot Sport's and MXV4's, Pirelli P7000's and P6000's - plus a herd of winter tires.
Good luck to you!
PS - I don't know your age - but I am a "semi" old fart (at least that's what my students say) in my mid-forties. When I first started performance driving/cars in the early '70's, my Datsun 280Z came with bias ply tires! Radials were an exotic experience! Most of the tires are sooo good in comparison!
Cheers,
eric
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Posts in this Thread:
- New Tires for 2000 Aero, Tom, Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:32:50
- Definitely get the Bridgestones, AdamB , Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:46:07
- Coolknight and Dr. Eric: How do SP9000s wear?, John Davies, Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:05:04
- Re: New Tires for 2000 Aero, Dr. Eric Strauss, Wed, 5 Jun 2002 06:27:15
- If you're just looking to get through 9 months --, Mike D, Wed, 5 Jun 2002 02:27:06
- Get the Dunlop SP9000s, Coolknight, Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:35:04
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