New Tires

I like Bridgestone and Michelin, have had terrible luck in the last few years with Dunlop on both new cars and replacement tires. I had the Dunlop SPs on my 92 and took them off with half the tread depth still there because they vibrated, rode hard, noisey, etc. I went back to Bridgestone and have been very happy.

Tom

92 Red

Randy Maheux wrote:

Get them while you still can.

It's pretty much agreed the T1S's are great, just at quite a price...... If you're not concerned about ultimate grip first, last and foremost, you're like me when I was last shopping for street tires on my miata. I wanted decent ride, good grip, good handling characteristics (transition and progressive breakaway), good treadwear rating, A traction and A temperature and A GOOD PRICE (I've got 5 other vehicles to keep up with!). I bought Bridgestone 'Eager' series tires and other than having to say and type that silly name, I haven't regretted it at all! They are very impressive and I think they were $60 to $65 a piece or there-abouts.

I've heard allot of good things about the Yoko's, but there's plenty to read up on if you go to miata.net product reviews and / or message boards.

Good luck, Chris

If you live in the Tampa Bay area, call George's Discount Tires (Clearwater: 727-797-6330, New Port Richey: 727-847-1701), who supplied me with four of the 195-55-14 T1-Ses for about $475, including mounting, balancing, etc. and also sales tax. That's still higher than that onlinetires.com price of $82.00 per tire (but not mounted & balanced, and no sales tax or shipping). However, they had them in stock, and I was back on the road two hours after I showed up at their shop.

When I checked the air pressure in my new tires, it was something ridiculous like 42 PSI. But I don't want to pick on George's Discount, because for some reason, _every time_ I've ever gotten new tires, no matter where, the guys who put them on overinflated them by at least 10 PSI.

Once I dropped the tire pressure to 29 PSI, I really liked my new skids! There are a few fun tight corners on my daily commute that I know pretty well. After I replaced my old B.F. Goodrich tires with T1-Ses, in corners where before I'd have to ease off the gas and still slide a bit, with the T1-Ses I could go pedal-to-the-metal and it refused to slip a bit. And they showed even better improvement in performance in those Florida monsoons.

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I'm sold on the T-1S, and onlinetires.com has your size for $109 each (Tire Rack does not sell Toyos at all). Dunno if you'll get 20k out of a set, but you might if you rotate them faithfully every at 3000-mile oil change. The Yokos are not quite as capable, but should last longer and are very good tires. The other two I would avoid.

I'll second both the Toyo's and the Yokohama's as excellent choices. It seems to me that the Toyo T-1S have a slight edge in the dry and the Yoko ES100's have a bit better rain traction. I didn't do any type of tests to verify this, it is just how they felt to me, a bit stickier in the dry on the Toyo's and a bit better traction and braking in the wet with the ES100's.

Pat red '91

Thanks all. I think I am going with the Yoko ES 100s.

When I checked with a local dealer today, he pushed both a Hancook K 106 and a Fuzion ZRi. The negative reports at the Tire Rack site steer me away from the Hancook, but the Fuzion got good reviews there. I wonder if $15 a tire is worth taking the chance? Any feedback?

Also, in poking about the web, I learned that the original Bridgestone Touranzas that came with my 03 SE have a treadwear rating of 170! The other tires discussed are rated between 200 and 280. I know you can't compare these numbers between brands, but they numbers do give a general idea. No wonder I only got 18,000 miles out of the Bridgestones! How unlike a manufacturer - what ever possessed Mazda....

Randy

I have been looking at Kumho 711s. Anyone with any experience with these? I don't want ultra performance tires, just a good high performance tire. Tirerack seems to rate these pretty good.

Probably not. I seriously doubt they'll be anywhere near the quality of the ES100s. Last time I was looking for tires, I stopped at a place and asked what they had in stock. The manager told me that the only thing they had was a set of Daytons, but that they were really good tires. I declined and he made the smartass comment "Not good enough for you?". I looked him square in the eye and told him "Not even close" as I walked out the door.

Local tire dealers generally have absolutely no idea which ones are good. I recently put new tires on my work vehicle and had a salesman tell me that the "Big O" house brand tires were the best they had--this from a store that stocked Michelin, BF Goodrich, Yokohama, etc. I inquired about the name-brand tires and was repeatedly pointed towards the house brand. I finally just walked out because it was clear that the salesman wasn't interested in selling me anything else.

18k miles? Sounds like an excuse to get some *real* rubber on there. I got almost 15k miles out of my Toyo T1-Ss and it was well worth the price.

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