Ok - New Tire question!

[catmill4@osdsun1.nrl.navy.mil (Chuck Miller)]

I don't know anything of the Yokohama tire, but if you get into the
vwvortex.com wheel and tire forum, post your question to eric@tirerack and
he'll provide the straight gouge.

CHuck

81S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 6:53 PM
Subject: 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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