J2000

hey i just picked up my new rims and some falken azenis 615
just wondering since we are having such a mild winter if it would be a good idea to drive w/ them on...i have winter tires but im excited to see them on my car
are falkens safe to drive during the winter?
thanks

Mr. Death

Hell no. If you hit some ice you'll lose all traction. Have some patience my friend. Spring is just around the corner.

imported_360_vortex

if you survive the winter with those tires on, i'll give you a dollar


RT615 are summer performance tires...not winter tires

J2000

ya.....................i thought so...lol
SO EXCITED! ahah
thanks

imported_phuviano

haha... I'll add a dollar to that. So that's 2 bucks for ya.

szuberi

where is the mild winter u see?

zeeman

iTrader: (1)

i don't know about you guys, but when i look out my window i see 2.5 feet of snow and -15 degrees plus a windchill....not exactly what i would call a mild winter.

Summer tires + snow/ice = death

Nova_Dust

It is bad enough to drive all seasons sometimes, let alone summer tires.

I am sure you get the picture now.

iwanna93sihatch

No mild winter here hahah its ****ing freezing and at least 2 feet of snow here so i dunno where ur at man but dont ride the phat new kicks in the snow? cmon now

imported_t_dot_SiR

i think the OP is on crack when he said "mild winter"

what da heck? where do you live? i'm seeing huge snow fall randomly, i don't even know which day its gonna snow, its so random and nasty without notice... plus with the freezing temperature, the wet snow becomes ice very quickly....

i don't hope to see you in a ditch or slamming someone's ****... so you better not play around our lives hahahaha

spracingsports

I'm running them at the moment, and I even get a little wierded out driving them in mild rain. Mild rain in California.

imported_SaYjAiBaO

lol this reminds me of driving on my 215s when the snow started to hit in january. i had my snows up front and 215s in the back. i was doing some crazy dorifto man! going down a street at 30-40 i did a 360 onto oncomming traffic. and the roads were PLOWED and salted. big no no man, i'm lucky i didn't crash my car because i had plenty of close encounters.

imported_xplizitremix

lol


James what rims did you get

VTEC_Thunder

I've driven my civic with worn out falken azenis (by worn out I mean less than 25% tread left). They stuck like glue on dry pavement of course but the real surprise was in the rain....they stuck almost as good in the rain as in the dry!!! No jokes! (thats what I call good tread design)

But NEVER NEVER EVER would I drive with a tire like this in the snow!!!!gotta be nuts to do that! lol...

imported_SaYjAiBaO

that's weird, i could've sworn that the azenis' tread pattern wasn't desgined to dissipate water that well. even at 75%, i didn't have as much wet traction as i would've liked to have. the 512s were 100 times better in the rain compared to the azenis.

spracingsports

yes, but 512s blow *** on dry road LOL. I'll never buy 512s ever again. ****, I never even ran the tread out on them, I just took em the hell off.

VTEC_Thunder

The azenis are awsome for wet....the tread has long curving cuts that run the width of the tire and channel the water out from under the tire.

Check it out:
Azenis tread

However the large flat areas deffinately don't help wet traction. They handled really well in the wet from my experience.

imported_doggy69247

i have had summer tires on 4 the last 3 weeks its not fun no traction at all its amazing the differance


yea its like 1 non stop drift hahaha



today was the final straw i put my winter rims back on even tho its bent it just shakes the crap out the car


il fix it wen something brakes winter is nearly over