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Originally Posted by ToySub1946
>__Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3+ (91W Speed Rated)__<
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With no help from others I picked these tires off the TireRack website. I live where it rains off and on up to 7 months of the year. Because of the weather here I thought summer tires would not be a good choice. So I looked in the categories of all season tires, and sticking with the Michelin brand.
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Summer tires are good with rain. They are not good with low temperatures (below 50 Fahrenheit).
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Originally Posted by ToySub1946
The TireRack website compared this model tire to two other brands and stated this brand/model to be the hardest riding of the three. My impression of them is that they are possibly, actually, softer riding than the original equipment Primacy HP tires on my car.
>>My initial impression of these tires still remains...after 3000 miles...the sidewalls are just too soft...too flexible. I have lost about 1/4 of the steering feel which I used to have with the Primacy HP tires.<<
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Overall I am quite unhappy with this model tire so far. They are somewhat cheaper than the original equipment tires on this car, possibly grip better, but some of the driving fun is missing.
I'd say this model tire would do well on a high end luxury sedan, NOT a tire designed for a sports car or sporty car.
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This is something that is often over looked. OEM tires have moderate grip and they are not as shitty as some are saying. When tire rack swapped them with the Bridgestone S04 Pole Position tires, the lap results were almost identical. They had to swap them with a tire from the extreme performance category to have a significant gain:
