Tire Recommendation

[slates]

Hi All you Texas Folk.

Apparently Bridgestone RE-71Rs will be hard to come by this summer. (yeah, I know it is summer down there - but it is JUST STARTING up here) I am wondering if you all have a recommendation for a tire that will be good for autocross and stand up to 2 or 3 PDXs other than the RE-71R.

Anybody try the Nexen SUR4G? Thoughts? Professor?

Slater

[sammm]

A lot of folks like the BFG Rival's. If you want to go cheaper, check out the Sumitomo's (sp?).

[slates]

Thanks Sam. I tried the Rivals a couple of years ago and could never get my head wrapped around driving on them. Is the new 1.5 a big improvement over the original?

[sammm]

^Don't know about the new BFG's, haven't owned a set. There's another cheaper tire option....Federal's, I think.

[slates]

It's not so much about cheap - as the Stones did 8 auto crosses, 2 PDXs at Sonoma and a PDX at Thunderhill along with 3k street miles and held up pretty well. Looking to see if anything else can match this experience.

[sammm]

Buy them now, and store them until the big thaw in July.

[slates]

That is the problem - they are not available.

[Robert]

Thanks Sam. I tried the Rivals a couple of years ago and could never get my head wrapped around driving on them. Is the new 1.5 a big improvement over the original?

I also could never get a handle on the original Rivals, but the Rival S is much better. I like them, hated the original. I don’t know anything about the 1.5 they don’t come in ZO6 sizes.

Edit

they need heat to work and are really bad in cold/wet conditions.

[865]

I have no experience with them, but I heard it said last weekend that the BFG Rival 1.5's wear a lot more quickly than the Bridgestone RE71Rs.