How are Falken tires?

MeetJoeAsian

I've seen a lot of people putting Falkens on their sports cars...I personally have never used them...are they that great, or are people putting them on just because they are cheaper?

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nogoodname

they are the best budget tires, very good bang for the buck and they are meaty tires too..... i heard nothing but good things

Falken 452's FTW!!!!

JoeD

The car comes from the factory with RE050As, among the best street-tires money can buy. Why someone would get a set of "budget tires" afterwards is beyond me.

Stick with RE050A PPs, PS2, or P Zeros. Any other non R-compound street-tire is a downgrade.

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.

Rhinetom

I agree. It's like cheap toilet paper, you get what you pay for.

Trips

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

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nogoodname

^^ clearly doesnt know that Falkens are the best bang for the buck and most choose to have it

JoeD

LOL.

Have all the "bang for your buck" you want...they are still a major downgrade from the factory tires. Falken doesn't even have a street-tire in the same league as the RE050A. Tires are among the most critical aspects of a car, and frankly the last place I'd skimp just to save $200.

But hey, if you're a broke college student working paycheck-to-paycheck just to make your car payments, by all means...get the most bang for your buck possible. Don't stop at Falken, though. Take a look at the Fuzion ZRi or Exclaim UHP...similar tires that you only see on bastardized, riced out pieces of crap.

Spec Jay

wow....

Seriously? the re050's tread design is not NEARLY aggressive enough. Even the dated Azenies rt-615 will still be faster than them.
So im going to go out on a limb and say you think kumho is just Korean made garbage too right? while their Ecsta XS was tested as best of '09 by grassroots. even on top of Bridgestones RE-11 which is also on top of the re050. While doing that having the cheapest tire in the Max performance summer tire catagory. its like paying for a 911 turbo while the gtr still outperforms it

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blue660r01

Potenzas suck

1slow370

not the GTR potenzas but they're a lil different

blue660r01

When I got my 350 my rears wore out in 6k miles and I never spun tire.

ssqpolo

ya. i dont do enough track driving to make it worthwhile for me to buy a $300 tire. falkens are the way to go. cheap. dont really know too much else.

nogoodname

cheap priced, good thread wear, good grip... good overall tire......

also, hankook V12's are similar in price...

ssqpolo

^^heard nothing but good things about the v12s