Current Mod : Tyres

My car is not moving for the past few days. This is because I just found out last Sunday, that both of my front tyres are worn so badly, until the steel belting of the tyres are fraying out! My other problem is financial - wise, as I have just spend about RM 1600++ already for the car [ road tax, insurance etc ]. Oh well, another week to go until I get my pay. For the time being, it's the buses and LRTs for me.

I've been using a set of Falken Azenis ST115 since September 2005 [ that long! No wonder the tyres are so worn out! ]. During these two years, I've taken my car for daily driving, long distance driving [ KL - Johor - SG trips ], and two track days as well. In my own opinion, these set of tyres is pretty good, and is not that bad for track days as well. Wet - weather performance is not bad also. But bear in mind, in rain or when the roads are wet, I drive a max of 80 kph only.

I've been scouring around and asking for opinions for these two set of tyres, Bridgestone Potenza RE-01R and Yokohama Advan Neova AD-07. A friend told me that the RE-01R performs quite well in the wet, and I believe him since he's running an over 300 horsepower Nissan Silvia S15. On to the AD-07s, a lot of my friends have used them and the general consensus is : so damn good in the dry, but you really have to drive slowly in the wet. Well, I don't mind driving slowly in the wet so I suppose it's pretty OK for me.

One thing on these AD-07s is that, all of them says that the performance of the tyre degenerates. Well, all tyres do that! But I don't get it on why this "degenerate" problem is said by everyone who used 'em though. I'll update on this when I get the chance to really ask one of my pals about it.

After calling a few tyre shops, sadly the RE-01Rs is out of the question, as it is a special order and it'll cost well over RM 400.00 per piece. But RE-01 [ or was it RE-001? ] is available though. Looks like I hafta stick to AD-07s instead. Best price for distance travelled [ from my place to the tyre shop ] that I got was RM 260.00 per piece, over at Hup Shun Sunway. That's good news as my favourite tyre alignment shop is located nearby Hup Shun too, which is Kin Alignment. Kin Alignment was introduced to me by one of my SIC sifus, Zane Loo. Extremely good work I'd say.

Well, let's hope I do get enough cash by tomoroow, as tomorrow is a Saturday!