I did a couple of weeks research for a new set of tires for my G, I have an 07 G35x with stock 17's. I live in Toronto and have done over a dozen roadtrips putting 600 miles on my car in a day has happen plenty of time. Unfortunately running all day gets the tires hot and they go down faster when running for long periods of time without stopping. After 15000 miles, my goodyear RSA's were looking pretty tired. They still have tread but I just didn't like the tire. And infiniti wasn't much help when all they recomened was another set of RSA's. A lot of guys with sport suggested I try the Brigestone potenza's that come on the sport, and personally I hate Brigestone. I norrowed it down to Kumho, or Yokohama, and settled for the YOKO's cause they got wicked reviews for stiff sidewalls, quite ride, and great tread wear. After installing the yokohama S-Drive's on my car, what a difference, it feel like I have a new suspension the car leans less in cornering, and on the hwy the frost cracks are absorbs much better with a lot less sound. I can't say that the tread wear is great from my experience cause they are new. But I paid $400 for the set. And for the money the kill the Goodyears, the look way better and have deep treads then the brigestones, and are comparable to tires twice the price. Check them out if you interested in a great set of summer tires.

 

I rented a car with the oem 17" with RSA's ... and they were absolute junk.... the car kept slipping... it was very annoying...

Glad to see your problems are gone.... I love the bridgestone for summer driving, but as soon as these tires are gone... HELLO goodyear...

 

Oh I remember you, you're the one that hates Bridgestone tires because Top Gear got a .01 second slower time around the track with Bridgestone tires.

 

nice reset

 

Yes, I am that guy. And first of all it wasn't that they got slower lap times with the same car. The point they were making was that in nnew Ferreri F430 was posted similar lap times as the car it replace. Although the F430 had more power to wieght ratio, Faster shifting tranny, and other inovations to improve proformance. They said notice the new car had brigestones and the old one had Perreli's, they swapped for perrelis and the car ran faster. The point top gear made was and I quote "If you want a better ferrari, don't spend 35k on ceramic brakes or on carbon fiber, just get those brigestones off of it." No problem if you guys like brigestones, I don't care, but they aren't even in the top three of great tires. So many other great brands.

Other reasons I hate brigestones, tread patterners at not astectically pleasing to the eye. And the thread depth is very shallow, I sure they don't wear as fast as tires with deeper treads, but my yoko's easily have twice the tread depth when compared to the potenza's.


Personally, would buy Yokohama, Kumho, Toyo, Michilin, Goodyear, Perrelli, and dunlops. Before considering Bridgestones.


ANyways, this is not a bridgestone thread, I just reporting back my Yoki's.
You like bridgestones go ahead and buy them, and create your own bridgestone thread and why you think they are so great, cause you haven't given me on hard fact about the potenza's. I will enjoy beating you guys on the track.

Believe me the S Drive by yokohama is a much better tire.

 

You dont read much do you? Try reading reviews instead of listening to what you hear on Top Gear. Hell you cant even spell some of the "premium" tire manufacturers names right. Admidt it, you dont have a leg to stand on with your BS claims.

Just to give you a rundown of the tires I own. For summer I have 1 set of Goodyear F1's, 1 set of Continental Extreme contacts, 1 set of Yokohama Avid TRz's, 1 set of Bridgestone RE960AS's. For Winter I have 1 set of Dunlop Winter sport M3's, 2 sets of Dunlop SP Winter Sport 3D's, 1 set of Bridgestone Blizzak WS-60's.
So there you have it, I own 2 sets of Bridgestone tires out of the 8 set of tires that I own. Does Bridgestone make the best tires? Not for all categories but for some hell yeah they do.

 

RSA is a generic name for a specific tread design not the tread compound hardness or the internal construction number of belts or the composition.

Each RSA is different and many same sizes offer optional robutness like 15".16.17" RSA Police Tires with nylon reinforcement.

Domestic RSA are very different from the RSA produced in Japan even though they are the same size. You cannot count on replacement tires being the same or even close to Japanese oem tires on a brand new vehicle.

 

Good point, i am sooo glad i got the goodyears coming next, I dont like the tread life of the bridgestones that came with my car, and i want something that will work in the snow when it lightly snows here 3 - 4 days a yr.

 

I agree with you stardust, i've been a fan of bridgestone for a very long time wayyyy before i could afford these tires. especially the s-02 pole positions they used to make...legendary tire

 

You never see brigestones in competition racing or drifting. They make tires that are ment for the road and are not ment to be abuse. You cant drift with brigestone, but you can peel yoko's all afternoon.

As for the guy with eight sets of tires, do you actually work on your cars, or just too busy making and spending money. And eight sets of tires you can't be smart enough to figure out which ones are the best. All you need is one brand of summers, one of winters, and be loyal. You are sampling everything, and certainly one of them is going to be a less superior tire.

 

Like what kind of ******* are you. This is a car forum site and you are personally attacking me, so I can't spell the name of tire brands, You win there, but I know more about cars then you do. Desipite how many brands, and sets of tires you own. You still haven't given me any facts or even what you experienced with you tires. You just attack me on things like spelling and that top gear is not a credible source. Top Gear is certialy a lot more crdible then you. I don't spell good cause I type fast and dn't care to edit my stuff.

Now I will be a gentleman and ask for you opinion and your winter tires cause I need a set for next winter, I like the dunlop M3, but would consider the 3D's the bizzaks seem like a tire ment for less high preformance cars. What do you recoommend. Or you can just insult my grammer, upto you. I am offering the olive branch, and despite grammer and spelling, you know what I mean. Cause you certainly know how to attack me.

 

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