Ok, I'm not ashamed to say it........I'm poor
Just buying my FR-S is going to be a stretch on my single income. Let's face it, life takes $$$'s. After rent/house payment, insurance, gas, food, utilities, soft toilet paper and the occasional date (If I'm lucky), I'll be lucky to even put tires on my FR-S. But I do plan on immediatly changing the wheels and tires when I get my car. Because the factory wheels are butt ugly and the factory tires are pretty meh.
So, I'm looking around the interwebz at tires and wheels. I've pretty much decided to go with a set of 17" x 7.5" Enkei PF01's, 45mm offset (16.8 lbs.)in bright silver for my future ultramarine FR-S. Now I just need tires.
Here are a few I'm looking at right now. As priced/speced on tirerack.com
All in 215/45/17 fitment.
1) Hankook Ventus V12 evo K110
Weight- 22 lbs.
$101.00 ea.
2) Sumitomo HTR Z III
Weight- 23 lbs.
$95.00 ea.
3) Kumho Ecsta LE Sport
Weight- 21 lbs.
$96.00 ea.
4) Continental ExtremeContact DW
Weight- 20 lbs.
$120.00 ea.
I want to keep the total cost of 4 under $500.00 without falling into the "crappy, cheap tire" grouping. These will be used for spirited road driving only. No track time. I also want to keep the weight down.
Soooo.....Help me out here. Anyone have any experience with any of these tires? Or maybe further suggestions for something better? This would probably help quite a few forum members who want an FR-S/BRZ, but don't have big bucks to buy the good stuff for them.