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]

It was VERY helpful. I know all about caster and camber, since my tires are WAYYYY off. Lucky me -_-

I do actually need an all-season tire, since it's getting ready to snow here. We get a lot of rain and snow here in southern Illinois, and a longer lasting tire better suits my needs since I know my stock GT is slow and I don't do a lot of aggressive driving. That $100 was before installation because my parents always pay for mounting and balancing as long as I buy the tires. The tire shops here are gay and will rob you blind as you can see from my earlier picture of the Cooper's I had. My stepmom had the car for the day since I had school, and they told her that "my car needed performance tires, and there was only one company that still made tires that would fit my car." We had them check the alignment too (which I knew was out since my steering wheel was sitting sideways when I was driving straight) and they said that everything was aligned. They knew full well the life of those tires, and knew that even if I could get the maximum life of the tires that I'd have to come back soon because I was destroying the edges of the tires. The reason I had to buy new tires anyway was because they were so far out of alignment that the Kumhos I had before were cupped really bad and one of them was ruined. Anyway... I'll need new tires before too long since I got them aligned when the car was lowered and now it's back on factory springs, so I will definitely look into the BFG's. Thanks for your input!

This post has been edited by richee3: Dec 11, 2008 - 5:43 PM