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Ok - New Tire question!



I was once again performing my weekly ritual of browsing the Discount Tire
Direct website.  Eventually I probably will break down and get the Rage
Vigor wheels with the Kuhma Ecsta Supra 712's.  

But,

I was on today and notice a new tire.  A pretty tire.  Has any body heard
about the Yokahama AVS ES100?  It looks pretty wicked and its only $10 more
than the Kuhma.  Does anybody here know if it has good wet traction?  Living
here in rainy Olympia, WA I need a tire that can handle wet roads 75% of the
year and dry roads the other 25%.  The only thing I can see is their wear
rating is 280 as apposed to the Kuhma's 340.  I don't know what these
numbers mean but I assume the higher the number the longer lasting the tire
is...

Anyway, now that my exhaust is finally on the car and the throttle body goes
on this week sometime I'll be done with my engine as far as I'm concerned.
All I really want to do to my car now is upgrade the wheels and tires, put
on a cup kit suspension, and a bigger front sway bar.  I ordered the 4 point
subframe to stiffen up the front today.  This is all on the 8 valve.  I
guess what I'm saying is its really getting close to the time that I break
down and finish my car.  Or I could remember that I go back to college next
year and just put new 13 inch tires on my car :o)  But then I wouldn't be
"cool" like the honda drivers.  


Here is a link to the tire:
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/dtd/findTireDetail.do?step=details&product
Type=TIRE&source=vehicle&index=5&productCodeIndex=43001

and here's the kuhmo for comparison
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/dtd/findTireDetail.do?step=details&product
Type=TIRE&source=vehicle&index=3&productCodeIndex=33166
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