How long did your RS-A's last?

Flipipino · 10-19-2007, 05:18 PM

On the Spec5 Kia was gracious enough to endow our cars with Performance All season tires. I think they were mistaken when they did this. I realize that most people would much rather have all seasons than just summer but I expected them to last quite a lot longer than they did. I have about 3000 miles left on the stock set that came with my car. I have had some problems with them getting low as well. I don't plan on replacing them with the same tires. They are too expensive considering the "performance" and amount of tread life you really get. I plan on putting Hancook RS-212's or Falken's in the stock size. I don't drive where it's cold enough to need an all season tire so what's the point? I did one autocross and a couple of 1/4 mile runs and then normal driving. I have 17,000+ miles on them.

1fastkia · 10-19-2007, 06:14 PM

my proxies lasted a mere 15... feel happy you got 17.. Not what came with car but prxies I hate now.
I have the kumho escta supra 712s on my rims now. THey survived 10K with at least 80% left. This is on my 89 prelude which who knows when the last alignment had been done. Got a sick deal on the 205/40/17s (248 shipped). SO I went with them. Great tire, great traction. Also look great.

Spec SX · 10-19-2007, 08:58 PM

I have 18K miles on my RS-A's. I have about 6K miles left on them. I wasnt going to go with the same tires but a buddy of mine had a set of them with 1K miles on them and he sold me the set for 100 bucks. I just couldnt pass that deal up.

oldjeep · 10-21-2007, 12:41 PM

I've got around 18K on my RS-A's. (3K on the blizzaks)

They've got plenty of life left in them - probabally another 10K. 90% of my driving is on the freeway.

Kiapet · 10-22-2007, 08:37 AM

I have about 21k miles on my RS-A's. I think I still have about another 10k miles left on them. I just rotated them about 2 weeks ago. I move them front to back and the shimmy was fixed before the previous rotation. When I rotated them last time, the shimmy appeared again. So, I was hoping that putting them back to their previous, non-shimmy location would bring shimmy free driving. I was wrong, the shimmy is the same.

I've been thinking it was the tires all along causing the shimmy, but I guess not. The shimmy is really starting to get to me. I drove my '82 Fiat this weekend and it feels so solid on the highway compared to the Kia. Kia should be embarrassed that a 25 year old car drives better than a 2 year old Spectra.

1fastkia · 10-22-2007, 10:33 AM

do these tires that have a shimmey have a bubble or something??

Kiapet · 10-22-2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by 1fastkia

do these tires that have a shimmey have a bubble or something??

No bubbles, they look perfect. Goodyear replaced one when the car was new and rebalanced all of them. The shimmy was better, but not completely gone.

I think there is a design flaw in the front end that causes this problem. It is too widespread and changing wheels/tires usually does not get rid of it. I'm just going to move on to another car in a year or so, if new tires does not solve the problem for me.

Metal4TheMasses · 10-23-2007, 11:27 AM

Mine lasted about 18,000 miles before I got a hole in one. The treadwear was getting really bad, so I bought Falken ZE Ziex 912's.

loco5 · 10-29-2007, 10:11 AM

Not too freakin long!

I replaced those POS tires @ 13k.
put on Kumho Escta ASX and they didnt fare much better, only got ~15k out of them, but because they were a 40k warranty on them, I got the next set at a greatly reduced rate.

It now has Yokohama AK520 on there. (Discount tire, special model). just rolled 37k, and they are fairing okay.

Have another issue, but will make a new thread for that.

Flipipino · 11-03-2007, 10:12 PM

I'm thinking of putting some Federal SS 535's on there to replace the crap RS-A's. It's hard to find the size of tire that we have without ordering them. I found a whole set of the Federals and they are pretty cheap. Anyone know of a good place to get some tires on the net?