Yokohama AVS Sport's or Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

[renzop]

The PS2 is a fine tire. Expect it to last 10K miles. Its expensive but has good performance wet or dry, is relatively comfortable and quiet.

The Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star Spec is probably the best performing dry weather true street tire out there. It's about 2/3s the price of the PS2 but you give up a little wet weather performance and it might be noisier and less comfortable. Its also not Porsche N rated if that is important to you.

The Yokos you mention are outdated and I would only buy them if they were a tremendous bargain and handling performance was not too important to me.

The Sumitomos get good reviews and would be a good choice if money was tight. They are not up to the level of the Michelin or Dunlop but still a nice tire.

The new Bridgestone RE11 is a highly rated Extreme performance summer tire. It costs somewhere between the Dunlop and the Michelin. It is probably the equal performance wise of the PS2 but might be a little less refined.

All these tires are summer-only and are dangerous as temps approach freezing. If you need a tire for near-freezing weather than look to all-season tires instead.

[BoxsterSbob]

Hi, just wanted to give everyone a quick update...

I replaced the AVS Sports with a set of Michelin Pilot Sports (N1), not PS2's The difference between the Yokohama's and Michelin's was amazing! The Pilot's make much less noise, and track way better.

The Pilot's also have a nice little rub-bar that's suppose to protect the rims from curb rash.

I hope they last as long as the Yokohama's did....22K.

Thanks for all the input. It's much appreciated.

bob