Thread: Dunlop Tires?
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Old 2008-05-20, 05:32 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by JC View Post
Just for street driving? If you have a stock 08 it's not like you have tons of suspension to take advantage of high end tires. I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with me but any decent mid-level tire will be more than sufficient for your car. I've run super sticky tires on a soft suspension before and it's not all it's cracked up to be. Long story short the Dunlops should be fine, I prefer to run Falkens though. I ran 512s on my DD Legacy and they worked just fine.
The low end tires aren't any more... All but the lowest end AS tires are more expensive than the lower cost summer tires and Only Sumitomo really undercuts any of the tires we are talking about and only by a couple bucks.

The 8000 is just an older tread design and compound. It will likely wear faster than either the SPT or Fusion and underperform them wet and dry. They are not a bad tire, just not great. On 16s, nothing is going to be unfun to drive.
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