How are Falken tires?

nogoodname

^^^ why stop at a cayman S, go for a lambo

tbonesteak

^^There you go!

Shunya

I've been missin' out :P

DIGItonium

I'm got tired of dumping $1200 (T1-S and T1-R) for tires since I'm no hardcore racer or anything. I mainly needed something that fits my Volks and could outperform the craptastic RE040 OEM tires on my 350Z.

My dad had the FK-451 on his Z a few weeks after I got my Volks and T1-S tires (circa 2004). I went through 2 sets of Toyos, sold my '03 350Z earlier this year, and bought the 370Z in April. My dad JUST replaced his first set with FK-452 last month.

So this time around I'm going to look for a set that is quieter and performs at least as well as the RE050 OEM tires. In fact, these tires are so much better to start off with than the RE040 from the 350Z.

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Mr Ed

I have used Fk-451s on my old WRX and noticed the tyres howled a lot.

My friend recently changed his tyres from Pirelli P-Zeros on his MB C63 AMG and he bought Fk-452s. They are ok. However, the only thing he dont like is that you can spin the tyres a lot easier.

My view is, if you drive a nice car, you can obviously afford it. So buy tyres in line with that mentality. It's the only thing between you and the road....

STI-GUY

I've had the Falken RT615's on my RE30's and they are a great tire.
I am not rallying or getting sideways on public roads so
it all depends on your application.
For a DD they are a solid alternative.
My STI comes stock with some pretty sick tires RE070 Bridgestones (may they rest in peace) so yes there is a bit of trade-off, but not much for my application.
Def a tire worth looking at if you are ballin on a budget.

Nothing wrong with saving some coin!

kenchan

my 370Z will only see RE050A's or the pole positions. my dd runs on Fuzion ZRi or watever it was called. from bridgestone with Uni-T, grips very well for the price.

if on a budget i would go for the Sumi III's. it has reinforced inner treads like the RE050A's and performs very well.

Sumitomo HTR Z III

falken to me is like dealing with nitto. and ive had terrible experience with both of them. never again.

i have to agree with most of you that on a car like a Z which is
practically unusable other than for fun and transportation, it
should be used as a luxury and luxury will require some ownage
to price.

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Falken 452
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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

blue660r01

Potenzas suck

1slow370

not the GTR potenzas but they're a lil different

Trips

I used this on my 240 to do burnouts and baby do they take a licking.

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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.

ZKindaGuy

The very first thing I noticed about the RE050A's is that they do NOT have the gripping / cornering capability that BF Goodrich G-Force T/A KDWS tires had on my Shelby Mustang GT.

The extreme cornering I did in the Shelby with the KDWS tires I always have to think twice about doing the same in the 370Z entirely because the RE050A's don't strike me with the confidence that the KDWS tires gave me in terms of holding to the road curve.

In addition the RE050A's don't tread water to the degree that the KDWS do. I never slid nor hydroplaned using the KDWS tires going 70 to 80 MPH on drenched highway roads but I have slid and hydroplaned on the RE050A's going even less. In fact the fastest I would dare go in drenched highway driving usng the RE050A's is between 60 to 65 MPH.

And lastly the KDWS are $50 to $75 cheaper than the RE050A's. And I am positive that buying through the various tire discounterers one can get the price down on KDWS tires more so than on RE050A's as the latter tire tends to skew the vendors into thinking the buyer has very deep pockets.

The KDWS is as it name claims, an ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE tire that the RE050A's just cannot live up to. I am not saying the RE050A's aren't good tires...I am just saying that they cannot live up to any claim made by anyone that they are the best.

ZKindaGuy

That's ...Such an elistist type of opinion.