I am currently running a set of Kumho MX's and I love them. Tonight I decided that since my front tires were worn out, I would put my Blades on the front since they still have meat on two of the tires....Good thing that I did! When I pulled the passenger side tire off, it was damn near bald. When I pulled the driver side tire off, at first I thought it wasnt as gone as the passenger side tire until I looked at the inside of the tire...Here is what I found!





Dont know how long it has been like this, but I have probably been riding around like this for a while. I have about a 50 mile round trip journey to work every day and have to drive up a curvey mountian road to get there and down to get home. There were no different nosies coming from the tires, no vibrations or jerking...Nothing! Now my question is this...

Can anyone give me some advice on which tire I should get next? I am trying to decide between a new set of Kumho MX's, 205/50/wr15, or a set of Bridgestone Potenza RE750's, 205/50/wr15. Has anyone, and I am sure you guys have, ran the RE750's before? The Tirerack.com survey rating shows the 750's coming out a litte on top of the MX's and only at a $6 price difference. Great looking tire but I am wondering if it is a better tire than the MX's which I personally loved! Any and all advice or help is appreciated! Thanks!

 

Between the two tires I recommend the Bridgestone RE750 for the overall balance between performance, tread life and ride comfort. It has excellent wet traction handling and tends to wear better than most tires in the same performance category. The MX will give slightly better handling (cornering and steering response) but won't give the same tread life and ride comfort as the RE750.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Trock1029 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Any and all advice or help is appreciated! Thanks!</TD></TR></TABLE>

Get an alignment done on your car. And from now on, check the entire width of your tread. Make sure you check your air pressure regularly, too.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Clay@tirerack &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Between the two tires I recommend the Bridgestone RE750 for the overall balance between performance, tread life and ride comfort. It has excellent wet traction handling and tends to wear better than most tires in the same performance category. The MX will give slightly better handling (cornering and steering response) but won't give the same tread life and ride comfort as the RE750. </TD></TR></TABLE>

I disagree. I just don't think you get a lot of value with the RE750, which is overpriced IMO. After all, most of what you pay for, when buying a more expensive tire, is performance, particularly handling (cornering and steering response). If you want to pay for a tire in this price range (around $100/tire), then get the one that gives you better performance, which is the MX. If you don't care about the performance, but you're looking for tread life and ride comfort, then you may as well spend less money (~$60-70/tire on a tire like the Kumho SPT, Dunlop DZ101, etc) and get tread life and ride comfort that are just as good as the RE750.

$.02



Modified by nsxtasy at 10:50 PM 8/12/2005

 

Buy a camber kit and get an alignment

 

What is the cause of the inside wear like that?

How much camber did you have and what were your toe and tire pressure settings?

 

Oh yea forgot to tell ya if you have too much toe-out in the front you get that as a result.

 

That pictures clearly shows alignment wear. A camber kit will not help that. A simple alignment will.

The angle that is affecting that tire is TOE, not CAMBER

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by migs &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">That pictures clearly shows alignment wear. A camber kit will not help that. A simple alignment will.

The angle that is affecting that tire is TOE, not CAMBER</TD></TR></TABLE>

For those who are not that familiar with alignment concepts, alignment usually consists of camber, caster, and toe. These items are described and pictured (very well) on Tire Rack's website here. Here are the illustrations from that web page:

Camber:


Caster:


Toe:

 

Your lucky your not dead, get your car aligned with 0 toe asap when you have your new tires mounted.

 

yea thats defiantly your toe ive been though that and it sucks i was stuck at some gas station, at like 1:30 at night and dude i was really pissed

a simple alignment will help it all go away

 

how many miles did you get out of the mx's?

 

Thanks guys...looks like I can get a set of MX's for about $60/tire....RE750's are only avail. on the west cost which is $60 extra shipping plus $100 a tire...I will get the toe checked out as soon as I get the new tires...Right now I am running two blades on the front with a jdm itr front conversion...looks cheap! lol Thanks again!

Oh yeah I feel sure this tire has been like this for a while...I probably have been driving all summer on it which includes a 50mi. round trip to work and back, and a 400mi. trip to the beach driving around a week and 400mi back...Considering myself lucky!