Rain Days

sooo normally with the aveo if its raining or roads are wet at all, i stay home, cuz i have done more than my fair shair of sliding out of control when attempting to make even the slightest of turns, or hitting pretty much any puddle big enough to send water shooting off the side of the road....but not anymore :mrgreen: yesterday is was pouring, and i was cruising down one of the most flooded streets in my area, it was sooo nice to be able to accelerate w/o having my back tires go a-wol on me...man leaving assholes in the dust when the road is too wett for them to keep up is very pleasing...

Got rid of the stock kumhos?

if thats the tires, then yea..

Yeah scary, I saw the ratings on the stock Kumhos and they suck big time.

RAIN SUCKS!!!! FREAKING WET ROADS! (I've been up since 0240....please ignore my insanity) :)

Haha yea with the right tires you can decimate all on any surface... as long as your opponent can't keep traction, that is...

Thought they came with Hankook's from the factory...

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Haha yea with the right tires you can decimate all on any surface... as long as your opponent can't keep traction, that is...

Thought they came with Hankook's from the factory...

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Nope

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Haha yea with the right tires you can decimate all on any surface... as long as your opponent can't keep traction, that is...

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I've got great winter tires and basically no one can keep up with me here. And I'm not even pushing it.

so do we start a thread about best snow/wet/dry tires?

well my new tires are pretty bad ass compared to the stock ones (i know thats a given, but im really exicted that i dont slide any more, and my tires grip when i give them gas)

gotta check exact brand of the new tires, here in texas u gotta pretty much have somethin that does well in both rain and dry, cuz that day it was raining, like several inches, looked like a tropical storm, 12 hrs later it looked like it hadn't rained in weeks, like the only left over signs of rain were a few soft spots in the flower beds...

snow, whats that? lol We dont get snow, we get ICE, and man is it a bitch...

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Haha yea with the right tires you can decimate all on any surface... as long as your opponent can't keep traction, that is...

Thought they came with Hankook's from the factory...

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My 08 Aveo came with Hankook. Am I special?

my 04 came with kumho's and they are possibly the worst tires I have ever ridden on, they only lasted about 5-7k miles, and I didn't even treat them bad, we all know this car is hard to get to burnout...

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my 04 came with kumho's and they are possibly the worst tires I have ever ridden on, they only lasted about 5-7k miles, and I didn't even treat them bad, we all know this car is hard to get to burnout...

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For any tire to last only 5-7k miles, you have to treat them pretty bad in my opinion. I've got about 15k miles on mine and they still look almost new. And I'm not afraid to use the handbrake on any surface (in fact I needed a wheel bearing replaced because of that).

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Originally Posted by xtreme 2

Haha yea with the right tires you can decimate all on any surface... as long as your opponent can't keep traction, that is...

Thought they came with Hankook's from the factory...

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My 08 Aveo came with Hankook. Am I special?

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yup my 07 hatch has em too

They really weren't treated bad at all, obeyed speed limit 95% of the time, took turns at reasonable speeds, and never burnt out in them, either dry or wet. I kept taking them back to the dealer and my alignment was off by quite a lot everytime. Its not like I drive on roads covered in potholes or anything, I eventually gave up and now have 17's...the tires are about shot and have around 15k on them...but they are low profile so I guess thats decent. I still don't understand how my car looses alignment so easily, or just eats tires.