Tires Hankook or BFGoodrich

De curând am început să-mi caut și eu, și deocamdată am rămas pe Hankook Winter Icept RS3. Testele de pe tyre reviews m-au convins.

Nu, mai bine ia ceva Debica / Laufen / Hankook noi și nu ai treabă

Am comandat pe 19 Iulie. DOT preferențial 2025. Au venit în 2 zile si toate 4 aveau dot 2625. Erau încă calde practic.

I’ve had the BFG KO2’s since I bought the car. I’m now at about 85k miles and the tires are still holding up with 99% highway driving. They’re great in the sand tho also. I highly recommend them.

First hour I got them installed on Nissan frontier pickup, highway distracted a bit almost not paying attention at 70mph traffic stop in front of me. I had to choose calculate between braking hard or soft. I chose the latter (softer) for fear of skidding and hitting the cars ahead. Car stopped safely. Coming from 6 year old hankook dynapro which are stiff at 35 psi I could have plowed over. These are sure comfy ride, no need to air down,  the all terrain version.

I have the ion evo summer tires, on a model 3 lr. These are the best summer tires I have ever owned, they are super grippy in wet and dry, quieter than the propilot 4, super comfortable, feel softer  but have stability and performance of sporty tires.

They’re made by hankook, pretty decent budget tires.

For those who are interested, I had the Hankook ION Evo (Summer) tires installed to replace the stock Pirelli P Zero (PZ4) Elect tires on my Tesla Model 3 Performance ('22). There are pros and cons compared to the stock Pirelli tires, in my opinion:

Pros:

- Quieter (especially on highways)

- More comfortable (damping on uneven road surfaces, but uneven road surfaces also less noticeable in the steering)

- Better grip in rain and wet conditions

- Slightly lighter steering feel

- Slightly easier full acceleration straight of the line

- More efficient (+/- 1% less battery consumption per trip)

Cons:

- Steering feel and response are less direct

- Grip during hard cornering is not great (at least, the limit is simply lower than with the Pirellis)

- Overall sportiness is diminished

These tires came on my car, so they got the brunt of the new car testing fun. While these were good tires for: noise, efficiency I didn't think I'm going to get these again due to: Hydroplane prone. Winter traction: passable, but not great. Dry handling: again, not great, you could feel the tires wanting to give up in some cornering situations.

I'd advise against the RS4 altogether. They wear super slow but they heat cycled out after 100 runs for me. The RE71RS were still competitive at 150 runs. It's a great endurance track tire if you're looking for life, but as an autocross tire it's not actually cheaper per run and it's handling manners are generally terrible for the use.