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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 04:38 PM
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Killed another set of tires

Checked the Pass Rear today and down to the cord on the inside edge


Oh well, got almost exactly 2 years out of them.
Hankook V12's - ordering another set now
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 05:14 PM
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You sure you don't want Nittos? Motivo...
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 05:25 PM
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i remember seeing something about nitto tires, heard they're really good.
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 05:42 PM
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2 years ~ how many miles?
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 05:45 PM
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I dunno ~5K
Quite a few Auto-x's so mileage doesn't really represent anything
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 05:54 PM
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if they are for autox why not step it up to rs3's?
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by slugrx
2 years ~ how many miles?
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I dunno ~5K
Quite a few Auto-x's so mileage doesn't really represent anything
How aggressive is your alignment? I have StarSpecs with a little more than 2/32nds left with ~14.5k miles and at least 13 autox events.
Old Mar 16, 2012 | 09:58 PM
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You guys don't know how Brett drives... lol


I've ridden myself of RE92's in about 7k miles, but 5k is impressive.
Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:25 AM
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damn i've been on the same tires (re92) for the last 15k and they look ok, but then again i don't drive very aggressive or do autox.
make sure your alignment is within specs, bad alignment is the fastest way to kill tires.
Old Mar 17, 2012 | 04:28 PM
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The alignment is VERY aggressive (2.5 deg neg camber up front, ~1.3 in back) and that's how I like it

I really don't know how many miles I've gone... could probably figure it out but don't really care.
A set of tires every 2 years is acceptable to me.
Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowend
The alignment is VERY aggressive (2.5 deg neg camber up front, ~1.3 in back) and that's how I like it

I really don't know how many miles I've gone... could probably figure it out but don't really care.
A set of tires every 2 years is acceptable to me.
That's not as aggressive as I was thinking. What about toe?
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Yea toe must be off or something.
Old Mar 17, 2012 | 10:02 PM
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The dynamic toe could be doing it. I doubt it would take many autocrosses to scrub off a set of tires with dynamic toe changes and 2+ degrees negative camber
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 07:40 PM
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Toe is set to zero
Old Mar 18, 2012 | 08:33 PM
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Alignments tend to come unaligned also over time.



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