RE: Tires Part 2

[Tim Irwin <timi@Interlinq.com>]

Tire rack has a review of them, and concluded that the SP8000 are a bit
better in the dry, but the 9000's are better in the wet.

As a side note, I was looking on the Dunlop site and found that the
215/50-15's are only marginally different in terms of Rev's/mile (and
probably would make my speedo more accurate), yet give another 1" of tread.
Has anyone tried them with 215/50-15? Any problems?

Tim
'98 Jetta GLX

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Ziobrzynski [mailto:martin@pzi.net]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:56 AM
To: jettaglx@igtc.com
Subject: Re: Tires Part 2


Hi i will get my dads Jetta VR6 GLX 97
and i was wondering if the Dunlope SP9000 are good, good for driving fast,
not
just fast by rally style cause ive got rally blood in me ...


mikeandcarmen wrote:

> He was probably trying to sell you Dunlop D60 A2's.  These are good all
season
> performance tires.  I think they are a very good tire.  I think that they
are
> the tire that VW should have used as OEM tires on the GLX.  The Pirelli's
will
> give you better performance only if you drive the car hard enough to
exploit
> their higher cornering limits.  The other thing to consider is that I
think
> the D60 A2's are going out of production.  Some people don't like to buy a
> tire that's going out of production because you can't get the same kind if
one
> is damaged later on.
>
> Michael Keith
> Pasadena, TX
> '98 Jetta GLX
> '85 Golf SCCA ITB
> >===== Original Message From jettaglx@igtc.com =====
> >Anyone have an opinion on Dunlop's?  The guy @ NTB was trying to sell me
a
> >set of Dunlop D-somethingZ80's.. Are they decent?  Should I spring for
the
> >Pirelli's?
> >
> >-Dave

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