Honda Car Forum

"Pete" <escape2music@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Alexey Shmelev" <uzito2k@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > I'd recommend Dunlop SP Sport A2!
> > Any tire with >40k warranty looks very suspicious for me. You definitely
> > don't want plastic tires, do you?
> The SP A2 has a 50K mile warranty, so what are you saying? ;-)

Really? Hmm... Anyway, I can say, that these tires a much-much better than
crappy Firestone FR690.

/Alex




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I have them and it's a good tire.

Your definitely cheating yourself by restricting to only 1 set of wheels. A
quality set of snow tires will easily last you over 5 years. My Nokia Hakka
1 will be going on it's 5th winter (and they look like they can go another 5
winters). For the summer, the Toyo Proxes have been through 4 summers and
have over 100,000km on them. I've been ridding on them since the summer of
1999 when I got rid the crappie firestone. To my shame, I gave barely used
firestone to my sister for her 93 Civic, which was a big mistake since she
ended up wrecking her car into a tree after an SUV cut her off. Her car
fish-tailed when she tried to avoid getting hit and then she lost control.
If she had a better set of tire, the car probably would have kept it's
footing. If you're concerned about safety, get dedicated summer and winter.

Pars


chibitul wrote:

> I got a 2001 Civic LX manual. I like in New England. I've got 32k on the
> OEM Firestone FR690 tires which I cannot stand anymore. They suck big
> time, I don't remember them being so bad at the beginning, but not I
> feel unsafe to drive. When it rains I cannot brake properly and I have
> to push the gas pedal *realy* gently when the light turn green,
> otherwise the front wheels slip and it makes this horible noise...
>
> I don't want to get winter wires. I am too lazy to change tires. I need
> al season, with stelar performance in rain and more than decent
> persormance in snow.
>
> The Michelis Hydroedge get 8 in winter and 10 for wet traction and tread
> wear. I am not impressed with their warranty (85k), I would be happy if
> I get a decent 50k out of them. As I said, safety is paramount, price
> and longevity thread wear is not an issue.
>
> Any advice is appreciated. The hydroedge are new and couldn't find a lot
> of reviews (and I googled by the way!) The reviews at tirerack all
> looked good.
>
> Thanks