So, I did something I thought I might regret, but wanted to try it anyway: I bought cheap tires. I usually run NT555's, but I wanted to see what these amazingly cheap tires I stumbled across were all about Tires.

I am shocked that they are not bad. I thought since I go through tires (rear) in 15k miles that it couldn't hurt, worse case I'm out 3xx.xx and wear em out/start over. Not the case. These things grip like crazy after you wear the release compound off. They feel greasy for about 500 miles and then suddenly you have a ton of grip (I don't drive 10/10 but I do drive 8-9/10 often on the mountain roads around here). I have another set of wheels/tires for autocross so these will be street driven 100 percent. I may keep buying them for DD tires if they last a while.

Running 235/40/18 F and 255/35 R.

Hard to beat for 336 bucks mounted. Thought I'd share.

 

I know the problem with the Nangkang NS2's were that they're too soft and once they start to wear, they're noisy as hell. Interested to see how these ones wear.

 

I'll update again in 10k miles lol. For the price I just had to give them a chance, and so far I'm not disappointed at all.