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Tires for 1998 LS400

It's about time to replace the tires on my LS400. I'm trying to find some decent information, which is hard especially since I got burned last time I did a bunch of research. Last time I did what was a pretty respectable amount of research and bought Falken ZE512's, which has proven to be a terrible decision. Website reviews on places like eopinions on just about every tire there is are about evenly split between "it rocks" and "it sucks" so it's pretty useless.

My first priority is that the tires are quiet and give a good ride. Next, I want them to last a decent interval, and still be quiet with a good ride for the whole time, not just the first few thousand miles. Handling is third priority, since most of my Lexus driving is done on highways or commuting -- I won't be carving up mountain roads with it. After getting burned by the cheap Falkens I won't make low price a high priority, but I don't want to overpay either.

I would appreciate any advice, or any pointers to good sources of info.

thanks!

Reply to
xyzzy.dude
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Buy Michelins, you'll never be disappointed. You pay more, but you get much more for your money. I'd recommend purchasing from Costco. Your out the door cost, which includes road hazzard, is by far cheaper than anyone. Plus, they have a $60 off(per set of 4) coupon ocassionally.

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Randy Kalal

On 29 Nov 2006 11:39:46 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com graced this newsgroup with:

We have three Lexi in our family. An LS, ES and a GS. I have on my LS430 Sumitomo's. Nice ride, quiet and inexpensive. I like them. Excellent traction on wet pavement.

My wife has Bridgestone Potenzas on her ES300. By far the best tires we have ever owned. Very quiet, superior snow and rain traction and we've got 60k on them and I estimate about another 5k before we'll need to change them.

On our daughters GS300, we have SP 5000's. They're "ok" but their noiser than the Potenza's. Traction is about the same as my Sumitomo's.

The *best* place, IMHO to check out and order tires is Tirerack.

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Actual tests on the tires by the Tirerack team as well as opinions from people who's bought the tires. Prices are excellent and they can drop ship to your house, place of business or a local authorized Tirerack install facility. Delivery is usually within 2-3 days.

Costco *used* to be a great place to buy tires until they started selling Michelins almost exclusively. As far as cost goes, they're better than local retail tire stores for Michelin's but they're still expensive tires and debatable quality in comparison to other comparable tires in the same performance/reliability range.

Reply to
max

Our 2003 RX330 SUV has Michelin in it, very quite ride, stick to the road, we are very satisfied with it. It is much better then OEM Goodyear that previously had.

My 1997 SC400 has KUMHO tires in it. Very good traction, but kind of noisy and no as good handling as Michelin. But it is almost half of what Michelins' cost.

Hope this helps,

V.

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Vinny

In the last 30 or so years of driving Michelins I have not had one problem with them - no blow outs, no bad treads, no bad traction problems. Sure they cost more, but they do tend to last longer and they are safe. I tend to drive my cars hard, so I appreciate safety. I even paid $10,000 more for the early collision prevention thingy on my current rattle trap. Needless to say, I am going to replace its lumpy little Dunlop tires with Michelins. But then I like as much safety as I can get. I also like reliability. Now if I could only find reliability and comfort in one car.

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mcbrue

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If only you'd have a blowout at 80mph....

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max

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