Sumitomo Tires

Anyone have experience with sumitomo tires? Im gonna need some new rubber before spring and they seem like a good deal. Tire rack wants $100ea for ZR 245 40 18s. Appreciate and info u guys got.

used them on myEclipse. No complaints. Held up pretty well, but Toyo Proxes are a bit better. but for the price I cant complain about sumiotomos.

I have the HTR Z IIs on my vr4. They have been the only ones I've had on it since I got it.

I have to say I'm ready to try something else. These are great for the price ~$130 on tirerack. But I'd like to try something else to compare.

Honestly, my thoughts are this.

Dry weather they are great. I've only broken loose a handful of times, and under pretty extreme turns at extreme speeds, so I really don't blame them too much.

On snow they suck

rain I do hydroplane, but with AWD, it isn't too hard to deal with. Basically all around what should be expected on 18" ultra performance tires.

My one other qualm is they seem to wear down pretty quickly, I've honestly gone through like 8-12 in 15k, but on the other hand, I have gotten a surprisingly high number of flats, and my alignment is shot to hell, which definantly isn't helping.

So all around, I can't really complain for the price, but I personally am going to try something new next time around.

Hmmm....thats some helpful info man, thanks alot. Now i gotta decide between Kumho, Fuzion, BFGoodrich and Dunlop....im leaning towards the Fuzions.