How are Falken tires?

Shunya

Falken Tires are great like the RT615 mentioned a few posts above is a pretty good summer performance tire for the cost. I have yet to try the RE050's but I've heard good comments on them all over the place. Personally I don't use both Bridgestones or Falken due to the fact that I've been sponsored with Yokohama's Advan A048(s) so I run on R-compound all year long. (I don't drive the car in winter so it's all good) if you're curious about the Falken you should try them out yourself and see which ones you like better, I mean none of them are bad tires overall; so it wouldn't hurt.

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CrownR426

I'd rather stick with Hankook's the gs3's and evo's are getting good reviews and are priced well!

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Endgame

I considered the falkens, but will be going with Nitto Invo's...

tbonesteak

JoeD you're an idiot. Falken is as highly regarded as our Firestones if not more. Anyone that calls falken a budget riceboi tyre is just hopeless. The Falken Azenis line was one of the best high performance tires that money could buy before they discontinued the model. The new FK452s are good too, but i personally feel the azenis were better. I've been co-owning a tireshop for the past god knows how many years on the side of my real job and let me tell you that you don't have the knowledge or the exposure to call falken a budget riceboi tires.

NIZMOZ

Vredestein Sessanta best performance tire for the money you can buy. #1 on the autobaun.

Google search for review on it, and you will see many on my350z and the corvette/bmw and other forums praise these tires for the price and how good they are in wet/dry.

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I got a price of $480~ shipped for two 19" 295x30x19s for my rear. That is cheap for that size.

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I have had Kuhmo escatas, Bridgestone potenzas, and Firestone fire hawks. I have to say that it is pretty evenly between all of them I think you should look at the kuhmos they seem to have solid grip weather it is wet out or not. That is just my opinion.

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chubbs

I've had Falken 452's on my 350z (19" Nismo LMGT4's*) for AGES now. They are excellent tyres - they last really well, they're grippy and they are inexpensive - I will definitely get them again.




*same size/width etc as the 19's you get on the 370z

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1slow370

first off the re050 and re050a are 2 different tires. Second the nismo comes with yoko's so the bridgestones aren't the best. Are stock tires aren't that bad but MAN are the pricey. I'm going NITTO NT05 this winter as i have hammered 8500+ miles this summer and the bridgestones are hard as rocks now. Not bald but they hardened up good aren't what they were. NT05 have the highest tread to gap ratio i've seen on a street tire and they are a step up from their invo line. Granted they are still almost 1000 a set. which is still $50 chaeper per tire than the re050a's

JoeD

You sure about that? What's your reasoning...simply because they are on the NISMO and not the Sport?

All signals right now are pointing towards the NISMO's tires being the reason its performance trails the Sport. In every single documented aspect of performance, from acceleration, braking, and skidpad/slalom figures in independent magazine-tests to Best Motoring's lap-times on Tsukuba, the Z34 with simply the Sport package has outperformed the NISMO.

It would be one thing if some of the figures here and there were in favor of one versus the other from different tests, but no...the NISMO has consistently been behind the Sport across the board. There was even a test where the two were put head-to-head and the Sport was better in every measurable aspect (and it was the slightly heavier Touring to add insult to injury). The NISMO was even slower than a 135i, Camaro SS, and Jaguar XFR around Laguna Seca for chrissakes.

So, yeah...the Advan Sports gotta be better than the RE050As.

1slow370

It's not the tires, and advan sports are in every way better than re050a's in every single review i've read about them. True the nismo blows I'm not disagreeing on that, but it's not the tires fault. The car is more susceptible to oversteer in the nismo iteration: (Taken from Edmund's)

Stiffer and Stuff
Primarily this extra speed comes courtesy of the 2009 Nissan Nismo 370Z's all-new suspension components. Front and rear spring rates are up 15 and 10 percent, respectively. The front antiroll bar is 15 percent stiffer and the rear one is 50 percent stiffer. Front damping is increased 40 percent while rear damping is increased 140 percent. The combination yields a 15 percent increase in overall roll stiffness, the Nissan engineer tells us, making the already flat-cornering Z corner even more, well, flat.

Wider rear tires don't hurt, either. The 245/40ZR19 front and 275/35ZR19 rear Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tires of the standard 370Z with Sport package have been replaced with 245/40ZR19 front and 285/35ZR19 rear Yokohama Advan Sport tires. The stickier rubber is mounted on forged-aluminum Rays wheels (19-by-9.5 inches front and 19-by-10.5 inches rear) with rims that are a half inch wider than the stock Z's wheels.

They screwed up the balance the stock version has by stiffening up the light rear more than the front.

fuct

ive run 6 pairs of Falkens on my IS300. great tire for the money! the ST-115's are where its at.

ElementMotorsport

Working for a wheel & tire shop I have had many experiences with Falken tires. I always recommend them to customers looking for a great handling tire without breaking the bank. I would say the FK452 is probably our most popular seller.

I ran a set of FK452s on my old 240sx that pushed 400whp & 380wtq for over a year with extreme camber & stretched and they wore extremely well considering the abuse I put them thru on a daily basis. Rolling burnouts in 2nd gear going 50mph they were surprisingly sticky and hooked up pretty good.

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tbonesteak

Good stuff. I like the 452s....but i'm sad they discontinued the azenis st-115 line. Those are probably in my top 5 tires.

JoeD

Anyone else find it interesting how any claims to the performance of said tires are immediately followed by "for the money" or something along those lines? Trying to justify their performance only relative to their low price speaks volumes on its own.

As I mentioned, I can't see how people chose to save $50-$75/tire given the role tires play in overall performance. You'll spend $1200+ for an exhaust-system that will give you 10 RWHP, but when it comes down to new tires every other year, opt to save a couple hundred.

Call me crazy, but I'm more a fan of the best tires...not the best tires for the money.