I was accelerating from a stop lighting normally when the Tiberon next to me mesh his pedal and was 1-2 cars ahead and still goin... at that point I hit the pedal and gained past him 1/2 car but then the car jerked like its hydro planning on the water... I shut it down just to be safe and let him past... under normal driving, the stock tires are fine... but with full throttle while its wet...the event kinda scared me... yea I was being a little stupid wit the short drag in the rain... but never again.

 

um even tires thats maent for wet traction won't guarentee u won't slip on wet surfaces... specially with so much tourq... but most casaes VSC should stop u from a horror spin out...

 

I autocrossed in the rain in my stock tires and they worked very well. I have the mich pilot sports, not sure what you have.

 

If it's going to rain as much as it did last winter in So. Cal... I'm going to have to get better traction tires. Too many spots in the road with an overflowing amt of water here for the stock tires...

 

the stock 19" are pretty nice..

 

why you race a tiberon for ? race a car its HP just less than your torque most be fun eh... rear wheel drive in rain with all that torque, if you have 200hp/100tq and FF hen tire will be good

 

The 19" OEM rims are really nice... the Potenza 050 OEM tires sux. It's not too bad in rain, but forget it on snow.

 

anytime it's wet out, you should ease up on the gas.. you can spin out even in a little puddle and VDC won't save you evertime..

 

chicagokid.. what kinda tire will work good in snow/rain/and hot temps? -__- they even tell you not to use those in the snow.. they're good for all season and pretty good for rain

 

+1000

 

racing in the rain on public streets?
i would like to nominate you for the darwin awards.

 

the Potenza 050 are some of the better OEM's out there. Here's a link to an article on it:

http://www.freshalloy.com/site/featu...002/home.shtml

and here's a comparison:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/bs_RE050A_rd.jsp

As you can see (or read), these are used on some pretty high-end cars. He even used it in the rain. The 18's oem suck I hear though.