Anyone riding on falken ZE-912/ZE-512 tires? yes i searched -_-, I think these tires have what Im looking for but I want opinions Options

[enderswift]

hey everyone, I've been doing alot of research on tires lately and I think i've settled on falken ZE-912/ZE-512 tires. According to the interwebs, the falkens are UHP tires that wont kill me when it snows. They seem to offer really good performance (z rated) and tread life but tend to be noisy. I'm a bit suspicious because they sound too good to be true, and their description on falkens website simply gushes about their technical prowess blah blah blah. I've read reviews all over the place BUT i know that most online reviews suck because the reviewers hadn't given the tire any time to break in. Thats why i want to see if anyone here has had these tires for an extended period of time. Do they really grip that well? How much worse do they make our already bad road noise prob? What is snow traction like? Is it true that the sidewall is actually softer (IE handle worse) than on the older 512's?


Im stuck between choosing these falkens a set of toyo proxes or khumo ecstas. I've had the proxes before on a different car and they were AMAMZING even when almost worn out. help me out here

This post has been edited by enderswift: Nov 26, 2008 - 11:54 PM

[richee3]

Eh, I think a lot of that has to do with driving conditions and driving style. For example, there have been a few people in this thread say that their 512's didn't last very long. But mine have 18,000 on them and have quite a bit left to go. BUT I never drive my car very hard. Then again, I had a set of Cooper Zeons on my car. Great traction, but around 8,000 miles they were gone and at 10,000 they had wires showing. I think I have a picture.. Let me go look.

Yeah, found one. This is with between 8-9,000 miles.




Also, I'm not saying that it's the driver's fault that her Falken's wore out prematurely. I honestly don't know anything about the ZE-328's.