Yes, the one in the same. I have pushed these tires through numerous long twisty runs up and down the coast. They appear to be holding up exceptionally well to my surprise. I do not chirp the tires and perform burnouts, if that makes a difference.

On my bimmer, I was going through a set of tires every 8 to 10k.

 

haha yeah i jus got my car back from infinti today after my 9,000 mile oil change and they guy said its baout time for some new tires hahaaa, but im prolly gettin rims soon

 

wtf are you guys talkin about 15k and replacing ur tires, no way...more like u can get near 30k on them!

 

I'm at 25000 and the rears are getting bald. The fronts will probaly have to be replaced at 30000. These Bridgestone R050A are now noisy as hell.

 

sweet, i'm good for another yr and a half.

 

I have OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE050A 19" on my 05. I'm at 11,500 miles and it looks like they have about half of the original tread left, which should put me at 22-23K miles before having to replace them.

 

all depend on how you're driving habbit

 

Barely passsed state inspection at 12,000 miles. Not many tire choices for the 2005 6MT. Ended up replacing all four original Bridgstone/Potenza RE050A tires with Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 tires at 15,000 miles last week.

 

Hey, I read you'd recently replaced your REO50's with PS2's. How do they compare? I need to replace mine and I'm thinking about the PS2's or the F1's. I believe they're all comparable in handling but I want the quietest tire possible. At just over 18k mi, these REO50's are loud and the rears are just about slicks. I drive pretty sanely, mostly backroads, with some spirited driving on occasion. They were fine for the first 10k, but after that, noisy as my old lifted wrangler.

Anyone else with F1's, PS2's in comparison with the REO50's? I know it'll be tough to try and remember how quiet the Potenza's were 10k miles ago. THanks.

 

i'm exactly at the same stage u r, 05' 6mt with RE050's on the forged 19"s with 11,600 lol. I drive pretty aggresively through turns but no burnouts wut so ever. I can easily get to 18-20k

 

The ABS and TCS/VC software is set for oem tires that are fast wearing and soft.........going longer lasting harder will affect stopping distances especially wet/damp stopping!............every ABS cycle adds feet to the stop.

 

Bridgestone Potenza RE050As sucks look to the survey results
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....ndex=0&place=0

i would recommand Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 for treadwear and noise comfort
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....ndex=1&place=1

compary them and u will see

 

The Michelin's are a somewhat better tire, but also more expensive (even w/ the special on the rear that TireRack has right now). I would rate them as a very good tire, almost excellent.

The Bridgestones are good (albeit not excellent) tires. They definately don't suck.

To bad our cars are so damn hard to fit. The Dunlaps (a great tire at a better price) would then be available.

 

my rears lasted about 2k

 

I'm at 14k and my tires are looking pretty low. Going to change them out for the Michelin's