200TW Tire Recommendations

[Kong Sheng Han]

Originally Posted by nholmes

I didn't get the Amazon price, but I did manage to get them for $116 each.

Good enough for me.

Mine finally arrived yesterday. Just dropped my wheels off and took a look at the tires. They're fucking 120TW, not the 180 I ordered.

[bigjae1976]

Originally Posted by Kong Sheng Han

Mine finally arrived yesterday. Just dropped my wheels off and took a look at the tires. They're fucking 120TW, not the 180 I ordered.

Why do you need 180? For the Driver's Edge?

[Kong Sheng Han]

Originally Posted by bigjae1976

Why do you need 180? For the Driver's Edge?

I wanted the better tread wear, less grip, and more audible feedback at the limit on track. These are also supposed to be street tires, hence the desire to have the longer lasting 180TW tires.

I personally didn't enjoy driving at COTA on NT01s. I had a hard time learning the limit of the tires, and one of my instructors showed me that I wasn't even close the the limit of their grip. TWS is the only track I feel comfortable running at using tires that provide less audible feedback than most street tires.

[bigjae1976]

Originally Posted by Kong Sheng Han

I wanted the better tread wear, less grip, and more audible feedback at the limit on track. These are also supposed to be street tires, hence the desire to have the longer lasting 180TW tires.

I personally didn't enjoy driving at COTA on NT01s. I had a hard time learning the limit of the tires, and one of my instructors showed me that I wasn't even close the the limit of their grip. TWS is the only track I feel comfortable running at using tires that provide less audible feedback than most street tires.

Good point. But I would be more worried about the general category than the treadwear numbers. RS3s used to be 120UTOQ tires and then suddenly they were 200UTOQ tires. Hankook probably changed so people could use the RS3s in chump car/lemons racing although the tire was not any different.

So the UTOQ number isn't really meaningful.

You want a street tire that doesn't have things like "do not use in the rain" or "DOT approved but not recommended for highway use" in the description.

[Kong Sheng Han]

Love me some new rubber. Those NT01s are so wide compared to these. Sorry about messy garage.

Originally Posted by bigjae1976

Good point. But I would be more worried about the general category than the treadwear numbers. RS3s used to be 120UTOQ tires and then suddenly they were 200UTOQ tires. Hankook probably changed so people could use the RS3s in chump car/lemons racing although the tire was not any different.

So the UTOQ number isn't really meaningful.

You want a street tire that doesn't have things like "do not use in the rain" or "DOT approved but not recommended for highway use" in the description.

So worst case scenario, these are actually less than the advertised 120? That's not good for learning a new track. Oh well, I don't think I'm going to complain about $11 tires. These are new to the US market btw. Date code is 1916. Very soft rubber. The manufacturer doesn't state any warnings like that, so I should be fine?

http://www.nankangusa.com/tires/perf.../nankang-ns-2r

[nholmes]

So I got my tires but my wheels don't fit over my BBK.

First world problems lol

[s0ldats]

sorry to resurrect but how are the nankang ns-2r holding up?