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Originally Posted by spin_r_g
these tires are very narrow for the size that they are. i currently have a set of 215 and my set of 205 bridgestones were much wider. the tires have soft sidewalls and are very comfortable to drive on. the traction is great for the price and so is the wet traction.
they start to squeel right before they slip which does not give much reaction time to save it.
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Yeah, they don't have the broad square shoulders that are common to a lot of Bridgestone tires - but I suspect the contact patch ends up being comparable as a result of the softer sidewalls. There's a resulting trade off in turn-in response, but having tires that don't greedily track every single groove or slope in the road is nice too.
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very rarely push my car past 8/10ths, but the few times I've had a chance to test their limits the break-away characteristics were nice and predictable. But you're right, there won't be any howling or squealing until
just before they let go, unlike some tires which'll give you a progressively awful audible warning . . . So I guess that's either a positive or a negative, depending on how you look at it.
