Advice for replacing stock tires on 2024 Performance

[Tranzor Z]

Anyone have any feedback on those cheap Amazon tires? You can find summer tires on there all day for $99

 

[HuskeRZ34]

I’d suggest to go with the Continental Extreme Contact DWS 06 over those Michelin‘s. Both are great choices for a high performance all season tire but the Continentals tend to have less tire noise and you’ll save a chunk over the Michelin’s. I got rid of the 007s this winter and run the Continentals and noticed a drop in road noise and improvement in traction, especially under 60 degrees! I get all 4 seasons and when it’s dry and the roads are clean in the winter I want to drive the Z and I don’t want hockey puck tires nor do I see a point in snow tires for a car that will stay garaged in any slop so a high performance all season fits my use case the best!

 

[Anneem]

I would NEVER put a 500+ tread wear rating all season tire on a sportscar (unless winter tires, or drift/burnout fodder). Both tires mentioned in this thread are going to be less grippy than the already struggling stock Bridgestone's, which are a 280 treadwear max performance summer tire.

Your tire candidates should start at max performance summer tires and extend to extreme performance summer tires if you'd like to improve grip substantially.

Thank you for your input. Would you please be more specific—exactly what max performance summer tires and/or extreme performance summer tires would you recommend? As I said, I have no experience with tires I.e. 500+ tread, 280 tread wear.

 

[Anneem]

I’d suggest to go with the Continental Extreme Contact DWS 06 over those Michelin‘s. Both are great choices for a high performance all season tire but the Continentals tend to have less tire noise and you’ll save a chunk over the Michelin’s. I got rid of the 007s this winter and run the Continentals and noticed a drop in road noise and improvement in traction, especially under 60 degrees! I get all 4 seasons and when it’s dry and the roads are clean in the winter I want to drive the Z and I don’t want hockey puck tires nor do I see a point in snow tires for a car that will stay garaged in any slop so a high performance all season fits my use case the best!

Thank you. My main goal is better traction. I’ll be forever annoyed that Nissan didn’t do better; I shouldn’t have to buy different tires just to get decent grip.

 

[HuskeRZ34]

Thank you. My main goal is better traction. I’ll be forever annoyed that Nissan didn’t do better; I shouldn’t have to buy different tires just to get decent grip.

Totally! Everyone has a different use case! Mine is a fun around town with a few trips car, not track. It isn’t my daily but I don’t want to put it away from Thanksgiving to March either. It is sticker tires, probably a second fuel pump and/or fuel tank baffle and pads, rotors and fluid away from being very competitive on track but my upgrades are to enjoy a more connected chasis on the road not a track weapon!

 

[trackratZ]

+2 for the Conti Extreme Contact DWS 06 great all-season daily tires, good wear and reduced noise.

 

[Drago86]

Thank you for your input. Would you please be more specific—exactly what max performance summer tires and/or extreme performance summer tires would you recommend? As I said, I have no experience with tires I.e. 500+ tread, 280 tread wear.

Tire rack tests are a good place to start:

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/extreme-performance-summer

The performance on stock bridgestones is ~.93 G skidpand and the Nismo on the stock dunlops is ~1.02 for comparisons sake. Platform matters but not as much as you'd think.


I'm personally partial to Yokohama Advans, and plan on picking up a set of AD09's as soon as my Bridgestone's are worn out, or I switch rim sizes, which ever comes first. I admittedly have not tried the AD09's yet but I have used the AD06's and AD07's in the past and loved them for their performance at the time. The ADVAN Neova AD0(x)'s are Yokoyama's top of the line streetable/mild track ready tires. They were designed to bring track level performance to a streetable tire and are sort of as close to a purpose built touge tire as you can find. The downsides are they're $$$$, they'll wear quickly (like any good sticky tire).

You don't need to take my favorite as gospel though, if you have a favorite tire company they probably make a decent performance tire you'd be much happier with vs an all season. Just use the tire rack tests to guide you to make sure they're putting down reasonable numbers vs the competition and don't have any weird quirks that are deal breakers for you.


It's good to look at the tester impressions in the tire rack scores also, and not just the lap times/skid pad numbers, as some tires are quick but unforgiving(sudden breakaway and large gap between grip under/over the limit) , which can be a bad combo in a high hp rwd platform. That is one place I think the stock Bridgestone's are decent; they break away pretty progressively and are easy to recover once over their (low)grip threshold, at least when dry.

 

[Anneem]

Thank you for your detailed response and link to rack tests. I’ll probably go for something middle of the road in price. It’s bad enough I want to replace practically new stocks.

 

[speedjuno]

Michelin.

Michelins. Only. There’s a reason they’re OEM on all corvettes.

 

[50thZ]

How about Discount tire? There are some good folks there.

 

[VR30Z6spd]

i swapped mine for michellen pilot sport way way better

 

[50thZ]

I went with Continental

 

[thehunter699]

I got Bridgestone Potenza sports. So much better than stock. Would recommend

 

[robin]

I had a performance and hated those OEM tires! The first to second was always iffy to me. I just got a Nismo and love the Dunlop's!. They stick like crazy. Probably not the longest lasting tires but my confidence level with the car went way up.

 

[2Cool]

How about Discount tire? There are some good folks there.

Keep in mind that Discount Tire owns Tirerack, you are dealing with the same company with the two sites.