i am trying to decide between these two tires for my ITR. i'm stuck on which ones i want to buy.

 

How do you plan to use them?

Street use: Azenis
Track use: A032R

 

street use...on the stock 15 inch wheel

 

4 A032R = 8 Falken Azenis...

Track = A032R
Street = Azenis

A032R loud on streets, Azenis loud on track.

Neither tire will do well in standing water...either tire will probably do well in the wet.

Did I mention that the Yokos are twice as expensive?

 

I believe that the Yokohamas are lighter than the falkens

 

you will be lucky to get 5k miles daily driving out of the yokes. my buddy has them in 14" on his 4 door ek and they are half gone after 2000-3000 miles

 

Azenis

 

The Yokos are twice as expensive per tire, and they will get about half as many miles. Which means that looking at tire cost per mile, they are FOUR TIMES as expensive.

That's why most of us reserve the quick-wearing, expensive, sticky track tires for the track, and use street tires on the street.



[Modified by nsxtcjr, 10:59 PM 5/20/2002]

 

Why would you even bother comparing an R-compound tire to a street tire?

It's like asking "Hoosiers or Potenza S03"?

 

can you afford $280.oo ? if so get the azenis

 

Well...to give you an idea..

Our shop cars used to have A032R

but now they have AZENIS

Better tires. Bottom line.

Jeff

 

does anyone notice that the 032R in US are all hard compound? if u get S(soft) or SS(supersoft), they wear out even faster.

forgot to add, hard 032 is not much griper than azenis.


[Modified by spoon_ek9, 8:24 AM 5/21/2002]

 

$280 shipped to your door. You cant go wrong on the Azenis. They worked GREAT for me at Buttonwillow.

 

Umm don't think they can compare at all. That's why most auto-xers I saw in here take off their Azenis and change it to other R tires like RA1, 032 or V700. Azenis are great for sports driving no doubt but when it comes to competition Azenis is not enough

 

thanks for the reply guys , i think i am gonna go with the azenis, just cause they will last longer

 

hell yeah money doesn't grow on trees

 

Jeff, that's one of the most ignorant statements I've read from you in awhile.. azenis are nice street tires, but they are NOT r-compounds and do not compare at all to r-compounds on the track.. on the street azenis are better but a blanket statement that they are just better tires is ignorant.

george:

 

Keep on smoking that crackpipe, Jeff

 

Azenis, I just had them put on my R and I have been very impressed with them on the street. Haven't been on the track yet but well worth the money

 

guys, I need a good tire for dry and VERY WET conditions, we have bad ruts here and it rains all the time......any suggestions? I was going to get the azenis but Not sure what they are like in the rain......thanks for the info!

 

I have the Falkins but Im NEVER putting them back on my car until they fix the sizing of them. I have a 16 and I matched the written sizr to JDM spec size. With the Potenza I had no rub. Now I have a rub with the Falkin. With what is suppose to be the same size tire. No more Falkins for me until they fix that.

 

Who has Falkens online? Need to get a price on a 215/40/17...

 

if it hold true like my 16s... thast really a 225/40/17. Take that into account as well.

 

http://www.discounttiredirect.com

 

Thanks, Garth! Unfortunately, no Azenis in big-tire sizes, at least at that site

Anyone used, or even heard of, the Ziex ZE-502?