Nankang Tires
Cliffnotes: Go to hell and die in a long lasting fire.
I knew Nankangs were cheap, and that the quality was probably not so great... but the tires came with the car I bought, so let's ride them for shits and giggles.
This e30 has H&R Race / Bilstein and THR Front CABs. The car is on 17" wheels with 205/40/17.
Let's start by saying that you won't care about the road noise of the tires. Your brain literally will not be able to devote time to that task.
Mind you, I drive a track car around town that has twice as stiffer suspension than this car does with the same wheel/tire size setups, and it's fine because I'm used to it.
I dropped a f*cking kidney at every slightest bump I hit on with those Nankangs. If you ever see the wheels of the car in front of you bounce ever so slightly over a bump, brace for impact and save your children.
A 3rd world country dictator could not possibly be more ruthless than these tires are.
By the way.... when I got the car, it had a serious tendency to pull to the right. Need an alignment right? So I did one... it wasn't too bad, but we got it perfect. Sweet!
Pull up on the highway. Far left lane. 3, 2, 1... and by the time I get go of the wheel I had already cut off the person who just entered the highway on the far right lane. Poor old lady never saw it coming.
About 100 miles later, the sidewall rips completely (mind you the tires were holding air....which at this point seems to be a lot to expect from them) and you couldn't blame it on running it too low/high on pressure.
So I'm with my spare on. I take a few bucks off my savings account to buy Nexen tires. Cheap, always worked for my track car, so by all means let's do it!
On my way there... on the highway... terrible vibrations start. Car starts reaaaaaally pulling to the right. What the f*ck? I must've bent a wheel on this stupid kidney dropping setup.
I make it to the tire changer, take my wheels off and oh, what's this? The entire right side of the tread (from center line to the outside of the wheel) has bubbled up.
Mounted the Nexens (same exact size as the Nankangs), balanced the wheels, went for a ride. Remember that old alignment? Yea, spot-f*cking-on. Vibrations? Gone.
Oh.... remember the murderous bumps? It's suddenly something I can live with.
Moral of the story: You couldn't pay me to rock Nankangs on my car.
Just hope this serves as a heads up for anyone considering tires. If you're looking for cheap/ok tires, go with Nexen N3000s. If you're lookng for best bang for the buck, Direzza DZ101s. And this is coming from someone who's killed more types of tires than the amount of boys that Michael Jackson has touched.
- Erick
I knew Nankangs were cheap, and that the quality was probably not so great... but the tires came with the car I bought, so let's ride them for shits and giggles.
This e30 has H&R Race / Bilstein and THR Front CABs. The car is on 17" wheels with 205/40/17.
Let's start by saying that you won't care about the road noise of the tires. Your brain literally will not be able to devote time to that task.
Mind you, I drive a track car around town that has twice as stiffer suspension than this car does with the same wheel/tire size setups, and it's fine because I'm used to it.
I dropped a f*cking kidney at every slightest bump I hit on with those Nankangs. If you ever see the wheels of the car in front of you bounce ever so slightly over a bump, brace for impact and save your children.
A 3rd world country dictator could not possibly be more ruthless than these tires are.
By the way.... when I got the car, it had a serious tendency to pull to the right. Need an alignment right? So I did one... it wasn't too bad, but we got it perfect. Sweet!
Pull up on the highway. Far left lane. 3, 2, 1... and by the time I get go of the wheel I had already cut off the person who just entered the highway on the far right lane. Poor old lady never saw it coming.
About 100 miles later, the sidewall rips completely (mind you the tires were holding air....which at this point seems to be a lot to expect from them) and you couldn't blame it on running it too low/high on pressure.
So I'm with my spare on. I take a few bucks off my savings account to buy Nexen tires. Cheap, always worked for my track car, so by all means let's do it!
On my way there... on the highway... terrible vibrations start. Car starts reaaaaaally pulling to the right. What the f*ck? I must've bent a wheel on this stupid kidney dropping setup.
I make it to the tire changer, take my wheels off and oh, what's this? The entire right side of the tread (from center line to the outside of the wheel) has bubbled up.
Mounted the Nexens (same exact size as the Nankangs), balanced the wheels, went for a ride. Remember that old alignment? Yea, spot-f*cking-on. Vibrations? Gone.
Oh.... remember the murderous bumps? It's suddenly something I can live with.
Moral of the story: You couldn't pay me to rock Nankangs on my car.
Just hope this serves as a heads up for anyone considering tires. If you're looking for cheap/ok tires, go with Nexen N3000s. If you're lookng for best bang for the buck, Direzza DZ101s. And this is coming from someone who's killed more types of tires than the amount of boys that Michael Jackson has touched.
- Erick
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