Tires
Tires Looking to buy a new set of rubber for the car. It's a daily driver, never on the strip but I do enjoy spirted driving.
Here are the options I'm looking at:
-Firestone Firehawk Indy 500
-BF Goodrich Comp
-Nitto NT05s
All are pretty similar in price in my area. I care about value, performance, wear and looks in that order.
Just looking for some opinions.. The car currently has BFGoodrich Gforce KDWs for reference.
Thanks
Here are the options I'm looking at:
-Firestone Firehawk Indy 500
-BF Goodrich Comp
-Nitto NT05s
All are pretty similar in price in my area. I care about value, performance, wear and looks in that order.
Just looking for some opinions.. The car currently has BFGoodrich Gforce KDWs for reference.
Thanks
Last edited by cnd99hawk; Mar 11, 2019 at 08:06 PM.
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The firestones and bfgs have a treadwear/traction rating of 340 and tread depths of 10/32 while the nittos have a sub 200 rating and tread depth of 7/32. So you are looking at different types of tires. If you drive in all weather and temps, you may want to stay away from the nittos. When I drove my Camaro fairly often I had the firestones and was surprised with how long they lasted but the traction was comparatively average.
I had the Firestones on my SRT8 and there were quite good. Good grip in the rain and dry. I also had Nitto INVOs on the same car same size and would rate them comparable. A little more luxury performance. Surprisingly quiet. Seemed a very good value for the price point and I still enjoyed driving on them. NR05 is a good tire but will be very harsh compared to the Firestone.
