yessamgerg

I Got 7k miles including 5 track days on my RE71Rs, My rears were shot but my fronts were still not to bad. Your two years means 16k + 2-4 HPDE + 8-12 AutoX is likely asking to much.

Dienekes

Thank you for the responses.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a 200 TW tire with tread left that still performs around 2 years after it was purchased?

EricJT7

I had Hankook R-S3's that still had some tread, but I recently got rid of them with the wheels I sold earlier this summer. The date stamp was from quite a while back (original R-S3 not the V2). If it has been five years or less and they were properly stored and still have tread left, they should still perform just fine. I also have a set of extreme performance Dunlop ZII * with good remaining tread in the basement that I suspect grip about the same as they did before when I first got them and used them for summer and autocross for my ap1 (haven't been able to fit the wheels yet on my AP2 w/ unrolled fenders). I purchased them May of 2015 and they've seen at least 5,000 miles and a couple autocross events and I'm sure I should get another 5,000 or 6,000 miles and another few events out of them next summer when I finally get my fenders rolled (been taking care of other stuff this summer).

Chuck S

Years? My RE-11A tires ran 17,000 miles in the two years they were on the car. Still tread on them. Most of 3 summers. I'd have replaced them with the same tires in a heartbeat if they were still made. Several hundred miles on the S-04s in the last couple of weeks and I'm not noticing any handling degradation dropping down to Max performance. Since this is a toy car I'm fully prepared to remove the S-04s and mount RE-71As if I discover something major.

Unfortunately the Tire Rack reviews are about the best we have and they sell tires so their ratings are always suspect in some ways. There are Extreme performance summer tires that run $500 or less a set in OEM sizes.

The Tirewear ratings are manufacturer applied, not some testing agency. Many people incorrectly correlate a lower TW number with better handling so many 200 TW tires are marked as such as a marketing ploy. There is no standard. Better handling tires will, of course, wear faster and should have a lower TW number but just giving a low TW number to a tire doesn't make it handle better.

Then there's the "brand name" fixation many of us have and the manufacturers love us for! I've had wonderful results with Bridgestone tires on several vehicles and crappy or mediocre results with Michelins. These fixations die hard. Faced with a choice of tires with similar "ratings" I stuck with Bridgestones but others will make the opposite choice.

-- Chuck