255/40/17 Tyre Options

[JimmyRickard]

mofos at tirerack won't ship yoko's or hankooks. Dunlop it is!

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Give Top Ten Tyres a call, they do ok prices on Dunlops... or call St George tyres

[The Bogan]

mofos at tirerack won't ship yoko's or hankooks. Dunlop it is!

The last quote I got for the Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star specs in Australia was between $360 and $400 a tyre if I remember correctly.

Tire rack had them at the time for $128 a tyre.

Add the $350 shipping and I was still miles ahead in savings.

Things may have changed though.

[JimmyRickard]

Direzza's are $192 a corner atm

[The Bogan]

Direzza's are $192 a corner atm

Have you had a local quote for them yet ?

[JimmyRickard]

Not yet. It's $1185 landed from Tirerack for the set. Are they a much better tyre than say Federal RS-R's?

[The Bogan]

Not yet. It's $1185 landed from Tirerack for the set. Are they a much better tyre than say Federal RS-R's?

I believe the Federals are a UTQG 140 where as the Dunlops are 200, Ive never used Federals myself so I cannot compare.

The Hankooks are 140 and I found the Hankooks wear more than the Dunlops but the Hankooks are more grippy straight off where the Dunlops needed a lap to come good and did get a bit "greasy" after about 8 laps at Wakie.

Disclaimer: Im far from a expert in these things.

Thats a bugger though about not shipping the Hankooks, I myself may go back to the Star Specs.

[niZmO_Man]

What sort of driving are you going to do?

Nothing wrong with KU31 for daily driving (255/35/18 on my GT-R, lasted ~20,000km, great grip for the price)

[Denn]

http://www.ebay.com....+40+17&_sacat=0

the add mentioned above is listed by me

the ad08's are excellent and worth every cent

was running these on my 300kw+ r32 gtr and the grip and handling exceptional

reason y i am not running them as i have gone to 355 disks and need to run 18's

[RBN1]

Just ordered x4 Nitto NT555's in 255 40 17 for $125ea in free delivery. 3 hours left for the sale at time of writing. Not sure how good they are but should be OK for 2nd set of rims.

http://www.ozzytyres.com.au/store/nitto-255-40r17-94w-nt555.html

[Captain Natro]

I have hero milanza hz1s in a 255/40/17, cheap tire not overly grippy but a deffinet step up from stuff like west lakes and the like

[JimmyRickard]

Taleb Tyres have yokohama ES501 and the Toyo proxes4 for $160 and $170.

Are they any better than the Fed 595?

[RBN1]

ES501's are a "Comfort" "silent" type tyre for people who value things like fuel economy.

Toyo Proxes4 seem like more of a performance tyre so should be comparable to Fed595, possibly better. For $170 they seem like worth trying.

Do a search on here, you should find plenty of good info.

[Missileman]

Also note that Tirerack will now ship any tyre they stock to au, so long as you are not ordering in bulk.

[GTSBoy]

Proxes 4 are not a UHP tyre in the way that the KU36 and 595s are. They are a good tyre, but they are nowhere near as soft in the compound. They have a treadwear rating of 300 vs the <200 numbers on most of the other tyres being discussed. That puts them in the same company as the FK452 and so on.

I've used both the Proxes 4 and FK452 on my R32 many years ago and the KU36s were like chalk and cheese in terms of sheer grip. I used to get up to 20k km out of FK452. Only get about 10k km out of KU36. They are in a different world.

[Mick_o]

Dunno what the nitto invos are worth in a 17 but they are a great street tyre loads of grip and VERY quiet. If you did get 595's make sure you get the Z soft compound 1's think the tread wear is 220 cos the taxi spec hard compound 1's are crap!

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I've used Toyo Proxes 4 and find them some what similar in performance to a cheaper Kumho KU31 (half the price of the Toyos).

Mick, I jelly it says you haz Evo 9

[Mick_o]

I've used Toyo Proxes 4 and find them some what similar in performance to a cheaper Kumho KU31 (half the price of the Toyos).

Mick, I jelly it says you haz Evo 9

Haha yeah Johnny its such a blast to drive! Not near as quick as my 33 BUT I'm working on that the evo has Dunlop SP maxx tyres on it and they are quite a good tyre I've found. Bit noisier than the invos but they are quite good in the wet and the dry.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I've driven a few of EVOs my mates own.. they're fun to drive, but you do miss the fighting nature of the car (that being an uncontrollable RWD)

You'll probably leave SAU and only be on OzEvo all day long

[Mick_o]

Yeah i will see how the evo feels when i wind it up to 300+kw like i did with the skyline lol

But no never the SAU community is far better than the evo crowd

I've driven a few of EVOs my mates own.. they're fun to drive, but you do miss the fighting nature of the car (that being an uncontrollable RWD)

You'll probably leave SAU and only be on OzEvo all day long