falken rt-615 tires

[///M3 CRAZY]

i am thinking of ordering them, any opinions?

[elh0102]

I'm running four in 255/40-18 on an E46 M3, but have not had any track time with them. I've got about 2K road miles, some of it pretty aggressive, and it looks like 5 or 6K is going to be about it, assuming a track weekend thrown in. It's a good sticky street tire, and I'm sure it's great when really warmed up beyond the temps you can get on the street. They tend to flat spot a little, at least they need a few warm up miles to smooth them out some after sitting overnight. I just rotated them and I think I will have the balance checked, since they don't seem to feel quite as smooth as they should. Overall, a great handling tire, extremely sharp turn in, sidewalls feel firm, and a sticky tread compound. Probably not the best choice as a pure street tire, which is what these have sort of turned into for me, as I'm not planning any track events this spring in this car. We've had so little rain, I can't give any wet handling feedback. Based on the tread pattern, I would guess only fair. My car tramlines very noticeably with this tire, but that's probably as much a result of bigger fronts than the specific tire.

[mikeo]

I use this tire in 255/40-17 as an auto-x only tool, and IMO that is where it belongs. It is extremely good in the auto-x environment but I wouldn't consider it for street use at all--sidewall way to stiff and the soft compound would just waste the tire in a few thousand miles of street driving. A weekend tire for spirited canyon carving--maybe.

[Mossman11]

i daily drove these in 205/40-16 for a while on my GTI and they are a blast. I've heard you can only expect around 10k miles out of them MAX but I switch wheels and tires so much anyways the cost is worth the fun.
I'm getting adapters made up to fit the wheels they're mounted on, on the corrado I'm slowly putting back together. So RT-615's will be spinning again on my front inside corner soon, and i can't wait.

[Mossman11]

by the way I got a leak in one of them and by the time the sidewall deflated a little and it looked low enough for me to notice, it only had 6 psi in it. Yeah mine are rubber bands but still those sidewalls are stiff. Like runflats :)