Slim pickings for new tires nowadays!!

[batchman]

Originally Posted by Aurora40

Kumho has a new tire out in ZR-1 sizes, the Ecsta XS.

FWIW this is one grippy tire - seems to be the street class autocross tire of choice for heavy-ish cars
(such as ours). My wife runs them on her 88 and out-paces many race-tire folks at the non-SCCA classed events she does.

That said for general touring I've been pleased with Sumis - no real bad habits and good value.

Note this is coming from a guy whose primary choice is 315 & 335 Hoosiers, which I'll be ecstatic to get
a whopping 100 miles out of. Competition miles that is!

Cheers,
- Jeff S

[Alberta_ZR1]

I purchased a set of Vredesteins out of Cali after rhipsher posted a pretty decent deal for a set of 4 off ebay (http://www.zr1.net/forum/showthread....4980#post94980)

The sad part is these were cheaper buying them out of country than what I could get at dealer cost up here in Canada.

First tire purchase off ebay, I sure hope they'll survive the shipment and arrive together.

[DaveK]

Originally Posted by Alberta_ZR1

The sad part is these were cheaper buying them out of country than what I could get at dealer cost up here in Canada.

I hear you, it's a sad reflection.

Good luck with the purchase though, hope it goes smoothly.

Dave

[gbmidyear66]

Yeah, we get bent over up here on pretty much anything and everything car related.

About the only things I buy local now are gas and oil.

Tyler - I am planning to get my wheels refinished in the fall and replace the 10 year old treads with the Veredesteins also. Let us know how they work out.

[Alberta_ZR1]

Originally Posted by gbmidyear66

Yeah, we get bent over up here on pretty much anything and everything car related.

About the only things I buy local now are gas and oil.

Tyler - I am planning to get my wheels refinished in the fall and replace the 10 year old treads with the Veredesteins also. Let us know how they work out.

For all you Canadian members thinking of ordering these tires...for the price I would say BUY'EM

I ordered them off the Ebay store noted earlier in the thread and with the exchange on the dollar they were $950.00 CDN (which included a shipping cost of $220.00 for all 4 tires). Once they arrived at my door step, I owed UPS another $180.00 for brokerage, duty and GST. I talked with the seller prior to shipment and he gave me the manufacture date and confirmed that a tracking number would be issued immediately. True to his word, a tracking number was issued right away.

The shipment made it to my Calgary address in about 5.5 days, which rocked. I was also extremely happy to see that the seller had packaged the tires into two separate boxes to help prevent damage/vandalism during shipment.

I mounted the tires on the car earlier this week and was really happy. They balanced out really well and we didn't run into any problems during mounting. As for a road test, they seem pretty quiet and the cornering performance appears to be better, at least compared to the old Dunlops. The only thing I noticed was that the rears aren't quite as wide as the old Dunlops, but not enough to bother me.

Just my two cents on them and the purchase...