Goodyear Eagle F1?

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Gbourdon

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3.5 Mazdaspeed Protege

• Mar 22, 2005

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I started looking at these becasue they are about as much as I want to spend per tire. Is anybody running these now? They seem to rate better than the stock Bridgestones.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Goodyear&tireModel=Eagle+F1+GS-D3&partnum=145YR7F1GSD3XL&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes

 

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tonkabui

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2002.5 protege5

• Mar 22, 2005

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they aren't bad. they tracked pretty well and didn't get greasy even after half an hour of hard running.

 

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defchino

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02 P5-T

• Mar 22, 2005

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I'm running these now for summer. Had them on for one season and they are great so far. I don't auto-x or drag but they are great on the street. Excellent in the wet weather as well. No complaints.

 

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Gbourdon

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3.5 Mazdaspeed Protege

• Mar 22, 2005

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Very cool. Thanks guys. These will see the street and a couple of Auto-X sessions. Maybe one or 2 days at the road course.

 

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Mad Hatter

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02 Axiom, 02 MP5

• Mar 22, 2005

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A friend & former member, ran them last year on his MSP. I think he had about 6 auto-x's on them, and only ended up getting about 12K miles out of them.

 

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mspdfreak

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2006 Mustang GT

• Mar 22, 2005

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Well, the treadwear rating is like twice what the stockers are. These will be my next set.

 

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tonkabui

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2002.5 protege5

• Mar 22, 2005

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mspdfreak said:

Well, the treadwear rating is like twice what the stockers are. These will be my next set.

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dude, the treadwear rating is 280 on the goodyears. the stockers had a 340 treadwear i believe.

 

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mspdfreak

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2006 Mustang GT

• Mar 22, 2005

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tonkabui said:

dude, the treadwear rating is 280 on the goodyears. the stockers had a 340 treadwear i believe.

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LOL, try 140 on the stockers.

 

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girth

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1970 Ford Torino

• Mar 22, 2005

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tonkabui said:

dude, the treadwear rating is 280 on the goodyears. the stockers had a 340 treadwear i believe.

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No he's talking about the Mazdaspeed version --- the treadwear on those stock bridgestone RE040 is only 140! So yeah, the goodyears have twice the rating.

Edit - you beat me to it mspfreak.

 

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Gizmo360

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Laser Blue Mica MP3

• Mar 23, 2005

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Gbourdon said:

I started looking at these becasue they are about as much as I want to spend per tire. Is anybody running these now? They seem to rate better than the stock Bridgestones.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Goodyear&tireModel=Eagle+F1+GS-D3&partnum=145YR7F1GSD3XL&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes

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For the past few years (like 10) Goodyear has seen a horrible decrease in quality of the tires they put out. But to make a long story short, they rehired their old CEO and things are going much better now. I've been doing research on these tires for a few months now and most shops (including a Bridgestone/Firestone dealer) have said that the GS-D3 will easily perform just as good in the dry as the Bridgestone S-03 Pole Position tire and in the wet will give it a thorough spanking. They get my vote!

 

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gino

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'03 P5, '14 iTouring hatch, '04 Honda S2K

• Mar 23, 2005

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Gizmo360 said:

They get my vote!

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And mine. Bought a set of 205/17/40s last summer. Precise turn-in, excellent tracking w/o tramlining, terrific in the corners and excellent wet runners. Firm ride to be expect and will probably be more so with my Espiler/HP install. Jury's still out on wear, but I don't expect anyhwere near 25K.

Time to get off the OEM Dunlop 16s ad get ready for summer.

Would buy another set, but might change sizes.

 

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krillin

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'05 Mitsubishi Lancer Special Ralliart Limited OZ Rally Edition

• Mar 23, 2005

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i am running them on my car right now at around 10k miles. i'm happy with them. first thing i noticed when i had them was the road noise. a lot quieter than my stock tires. the grip is pretty nice too. however, i have the feeling that the sidewalls are a bit on the softer side.

 

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tonkabui

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2002.5 protege5

• Mar 23, 2005

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mspdfreak said:

LOL, try 140 on the stockers.

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wow, that's just... wrong. don't those bridgestones suck, too?

 

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girth

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1970 Ford Torino

• Mar 23, 2005

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^No actually I like the stock Bridgstones a lot. They really perform well....only problem is they're expensive and the treadwear is crazy low.