Best tires

[Peso]

What are the best tires for our car? With a higher speed rating? That is also cost effective?

 

[87and66]

If you want all season, I don't think you can beat the Continental DWS06.

I can't speak on summer tires personally for the Stinger, but the Michelin PS4S is known to be an outstanding performer.

 

[vipeboy2000]

I'd say for a summer performance tire, i'd look at the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S, Pirelli P Zero, or the Yokohama Advan Apex V601 for a slightly more budget tire..
for Allseasons, Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4, BFgoodrich G-Force Comp-2 A/S Plus, or the Continental DWS06 Plus..

I personally run the Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 tires after having a flat on the primacy tour a/s tires that came on the stinger.. Wanted the BFG comp-2 as plus but couldn't get them in as i ran the previous gen NON plus version on our bimmers and loved them even though they lacked a little in the wet vs the michelins.. however the PLUS versions of the bfgoodrich comp 2 a/s plus have brought the wet levels up to near on par of the michelins.. (since michelin owns bf-goodrich it makes sense for the compounds to trickle down)

 

[D.J.]

For a great balance of cost and performance. I like the Firehawk Indy 500

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Firestone&tireModel=Firehawk+Indy+500

the Michelin PS4S is a better tire - but more $

 

[BadTrainDriver]

What are the best tires for our car? With a higher speed rating? That is also cost effective?

All Season: Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4
Summer: Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
There is no such thing as "best/cost effective."
You either wan the best, or you want cost effective.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Two things made me pick the Nitto Motivo UHP A/S for my "winter" tires: rated "Y" and 60K miles treadlife warranty: and the fact that I could actually get them: the Michelin A/S "Y" rated tire was being difficult to get: the Nitto tires are less expensive of course. The grip is good enough for me: they feel almost like the Pilot Sport summer tires.

 

[Ruturaj]

I went with GOODYEAR EAGLE EXHILARATE. They were little cheaper than 4S but also had lots of rebates that brought price down in further.

 

[Blueangel]

Just swapped out my tires this month for the best of the best..Michelin PS4S. Pure fire when it comes to cornering fast and hard with insane grip, yet quiet and very comfortable over bumps. Lots of speed bumps over here so this tire was a must for me..

 

[Keith88lx]

Bought my car used so it came with some very cost effective Sentury tires. Ok grip on dry pavement. Awful in wet. They will be replaced by Michelin PS A/S 4 today.

 

[Maljey]

If you want all season, I don't think you can beat the Continental DWS06.

I can't speak on summer tires personally for the Stinger, but the Michelin PS4S is known to be an outstanding performer.

Seeing as you're in Pittsburgh, did you run those DWS06 in the winter as well? If so, how did they go?

 

[87and66]

Seeing as you're in Pittsburgh, did you run those DWS06 in the winter as well? If so, how did they go?

I do. In the cold and wet, they do pretty well, but you do have to be more careful if they tires don't have a lot of tread left. I try to avoid driving in actual snow. I've only driven in snow with them a few times, but it was a a couple of inches each time. Definitely not ideal or as good as an actual winter tire. But they performed well enough that I don't feel the need to put winter tires on my car for the rare occasion that I drive with snow on the ground. So in conclusion, they're not as good as winter tires, but they're good enough for me.

 

[RogueIV]

For the price it's hard to beat General G-Max RS for the summer. They aren't better than Michelin PS4S but they get you most of the way there for a fraction of the price and last longer.

Winter I run General Altimax. not this isn't brand loyalty but again they've worked for me for the past 10 years and are a reasonable price.

 

[Dan00Hawk]

For the price it's hard to beat General G-Max RS for the summer. They aren't better than Michelin PS4S but they get you most of the way there for a fraction of the price and last longer.

Winter I run General Altimax. not this isn't brand loyalty but again they've worked for me for the past 10 years and are a reasonable price.

I've had great results with the G-Max RS for summer and the Altimax Arctic for winter as well. They are typically my go-to tires.

This time, I went with the new Nokian One Tyre for regular use, as I'm not looking for all out grip with this car. But a combination of good grip in most weather conditions and a long lifespan (80,000 miles treadwear rating) as my new job has me travelling quite a bit around the north central states at all times of the year. It also features an Aramid sidewall for guaranteed pothole protection.

For winter December through March, I'm trying Firestone's Winterforce 2 tire this upcoming season. Haven't used them yet, but initial reports from other consumers are positive.

 

[DeltaV]

Michelin bought back my Grand Touring No-Season Radial Primacy A/S tires at 1000 miles because they couldn’t be brought to less than 40 lbs road force for some reason. So I spent the extra hundred bucks to get the Pilot Sport 4S in 245/255 to try to kill under steer a bit. Not bad tires. Not great. I wouldn’t have purchased them if I wasn’t limited to Michelin for the refund.

My RX-8 has 245 Bridgestone RE-71R and they are incredible for a street tire. No issues keeping up with C7 Z06, built Z4, or S2000 on twisty mountain roads, great feel, and darn good in the wet. They replaced Dunlop Direzza Star Specs that were just as well-behaved if more of a 8/10 tire vs the RE-71R’s 9/10.

Of course, the Stinger is a MUCH heavier car, so YMMV.

Let us know what you get and how they work out!

 

[RM7]

Michelin bought back my Grand Touring No-Season Radial Primacy A/S tires at 1000 miles because they couldn’t be brought to less than 40 lbs road force for some reason. So I spent the extra hundred bucks to get the Pilot Sport 4S in 245/255 to try to kill under steer a bit. Not bad tires. Not great. I wouldn’t have purchased them if I wasn’t limited to Michelin for the refund.

My RX-8 has 245 Bridgestone RE-71R and they are incredible for a street tire. No issues keeping up with C7 Z06, built Z4, or S2000 on twisty mountain roads, great feel, and darn good in the wet. They replaced Dunlop Direzza Star Specs that were just as well-behaved if more of a 8/10 tire vs the RE-71R’s 9/10.

Of course, the Stinger is a MUCH heavier car, so YMMV.

Let us know what you get and how they work out!

To be fair, the reason your RX-8 is keeping upon twisties is because it's a good lighter chassis. I seriously doubt anyone is taking tires close to the limit with that kind of driving...even if they are going fast. If they are, that should be go-to-jail stuff.

 

[DeltaV]

To be fair, the reason your RX-8 is keeping upon twisties is because it's a good lighter chassis. I seriously doubt anyone is taking tires close to the limit with that kind of driving...even if they are going fast. If they are, that should be go-to-jail stuff.

Yes, apples and oranges, thus my in-line acknowledgement that the cars are very different. I was trying to point out very good experiences with other tires, with examples. They may, or may not, translate to the Stinger.

I’ll also acknowledge here that the other tires I mentioned were 200 treadwear compared to the PS4S’s 300 treadwear and that I have zero experience with the other tires on a car like the Stinger. Heck, I just hit 2,000 miles so I have no real experience with my Stinger yet and the new Michelins have barely broken in.

As to the mountain drives, the roads were such that driving the speed limits there are entertaining to someone with dozens of HPDE across the region and 40 years of driving experience, 5 over will have your attention, and 10 over, in some corners, is 7-tenths, which I never exceed off a racetrack. The Z06 was occasionally obviously beyond its tire’s limits, though I know neither the tires used nor the driver’s training, so I backed off so as to not encourage someone driving beyond their limits in a remote, wooded location such as the Tail of the Dragon.

Be safe out there!

 

[MerlintheMad]

Heck, I just hit 2,000 miles so I have no real experience with my Stinger yet and the new Michelins have barely broken in.

Depending on how much you hoon, your Michelins could be already half used up at 2K miles.

 

[DeltaV]

Depending on how much you hoon, your Michelins could be already half used up at 2K miles.

Agreed, but I’ve had the PS4S on for less than half of that and I’m gently increasing my exploration of the car in the flatlands with mountain roads mostly foliage-seeker-laden recently.

Still, the car understeers at medium speeds using 245s up front/255s in the rear. Near-zero front camber, non-adjustable, is a head-shaker. You drive around it and learn how the torque vectoring works, but I’m not about to chuck the car around…yet.

Besides, I’m chasing apex-to-apex flow and grace, like MotoGP, not hoon.

What my Saturday lunch run looks like:

Please ignore this moron’s flagrantly stupid disrespect for lane markings. It was the first good representation I found of the roads around here.

 

[JSolo]

That miata driver is failure. He's all over the place, can't stay in his lane. This is not a race track. Crossing the line not acceptable. He'd crash by now if on a bike.

 

[DeltaV]

That miata driver is failure. He's all over the place, can't stay in his lane. This is not a race track. Crossing the line not acceptable. He'd crash by now if on a bike.

Yeah, the Dragon was what brought me here. I kept driving up multiple times a year so I just moved here.

Now I never go. Too many other good roads without the slow as molasses minivans and Harleys.

To perversely quote Yogi Berra, nobody goes there anymore…it’s too crowded.