Old 10-18-2008, 10:26 PM   #1
Question Audi A4 Tire Recommendations
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I'm looking for some new tires for my Audi, any recommendations?

Need to be All Season and some performance. Wet weather here in Seattle, my car is not quatro so I dont plan on driving it across the pass.

Tire size is 235 40 ZR 18

Anything out there that gets more than 20k miles AND is Z rated?
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Old 10-21-2008, 09:39 AM   #2
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Take a look at either
Sumitomo HTRZ II - mid class - Summer tire, ran these on my rabbit for awhile...decent tire

Falken FK-452 - high end sili- based tire, AWESOME dry/wet traction... had these on my A4..... LOVED THEM
Falken Ziex ZE-512 - Same basic tire- but more "All-season" 30K tire

or if you have the money
Yokohama ADVAN Sport @ about 250 a pop.... but those are the same tires that Porsche puts on the Carrera 4`s
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Old 10-21-2008, 06:53 PM   #3
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An Audi without Quattro. Does such a thing exist?

All I know is when it is time for new tires I am going to look for a quieter tire.
The Michelins that come on Hondas are quite noisy.
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Old 10-22-2008, 01:55 PM   #4
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i wasent going to question him on that....lol but you are right..he has an A4 which is awd
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Old 10-22-2008, 02:55 PM   #5
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Tires showed up today... I picked up some Continentals. Getting them mounted tomorrow in Bellevue and a front/rear alignment.
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Old 10-22-2008, 09:00 PM   #6
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Tires showed up today... I picked up some Continentals. Getting them mounted tomorrow in Bellevue and a front/rear alignment.
Continentals???....um what series?
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Old 10-22-2008, 09:53 PM   #7
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I ended up getting the 235/40ZR-18 Continental ContiExtremeContact - whatcha think? Be honest.
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Old 10-22-2008, 10:16 PM   #8
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Honest opinion....
In that price range you could have got a better tire...
I mean i`m not a big fan of continental, the extremecontact version are not bad tires...
Dont really care for the tread pattern...the "shark fin" design is really much useless when the tire gets to about 45% tread left.
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Old 10-23-2008, 11:34 AM   #9
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What better tire could you recommend for that price range?
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Old 10-23-2008, 04:24 PM   #10
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What better tire could you recommend for that price range?
Those tires are about 120-140 depending on where you go....

Falken Ziex ZE-512 ..about $135 a tire

Kumho Ecsta SPT ---for about $11 bucks more per tire about $149 a tire

Those are just two I could pick out.. Kumho`s being the better of the two.
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Old 10-24-2008, 02:09 AM   #11
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I almost got the Kumho's, man I was torn between those and the ones I got. I picked the ones I bought only because they were better in the wet weather conditions and since I dont have a quattro and the seasons we have here, I figured it was worth it.

I've heard also, like what you said, that they lose their effectiveness after the 50 percent mark.

I think there are much better tires out there, especially with Michelin for instance, but I felt these were good value and I dont rail my card that hard anyway.

I had an alignment done at Tru Line - I will post up what they gave me - crazy to see what output they gave me.
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Old 10-24-2008, 03:37 PM   #12
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I almost got the Kumho's, man I was torn between those and the ones I got. I picked the ones I bought only because they were better in the wet weather conditions and since I dont have a quattro and the seasons we have here, I figured it was worth it.

I've heard also, like what you said, that they lose their effectiveness after the 50 percent mark.

I think there are much better tires out there, especially with Michelin for instance, but I felt these were good value and I dont rail my card that hard anyway.

I had an alignment done at Tru Line - I will post up what they gave me - crazy to see what output they gave me.
The Kumho`s are one hell of an tire, they really are.
By the time its due for another set of tires...you`ll be at about 3/32 left which is about 40%, so you`ll be set anyways.

Very True, there are better tires out there in the up scale range of $350 a tire, is it really necessary? No
Your alignment was THAT far off??
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Old 10-25-2008, 10:14 AM   #13
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i wasent going to question him on that....lol but you are right..he has an A4 which is awd
The A-4 is available in FWD or AWD. It is just that, up here in the PNW, most of us stock the AWD.
I think our store has had a half dozen used FWD A-4's in the last few years.
As far as new goes...we only order Quattros.
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