Falken tires??

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:39 pm

So I currently have Wanli (cheap no name) tires and have driven them for about 2000KM. I took my car back to the tire shop for the 5th time complaining about a vibration. We put the wheels on the balancer 1 by 1 and each tire was out of round.

They asked if I wanted to replace the Wanli's or upgrage; I said YES to the upgrade.

They suggested Falken ZE512. Has anybody had any experience with this tire? Any comments? The price seems right but I just wanted a few opinions.

Thanks

Knoxville_R/T · Post by **Knoxville_R/T** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:56 pm

Yes lots of people on here use them and I had the on the old r/t. Will most likely get them for teh srt-4. LOTS of tire for the price.

Nick Drake · Post by **Nick Drake** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:32 pm

You mean Falken Ziex's? If so I have them and I love them, can't wait for the snow to fall to test them out, the salesman said they were much better than the stockers in snow. Plus they've been great summer tires so far. I've yet to hear them squeal.

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:50 pm

yes theyre good tires but im a sucker for 205/55-15 yoko es100's

imagine the goodyear eagle f1 gsd3, but half the price

CrashTeam · Post by **CrashTeam** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:53 pm

They are good tires for a neon.

Post by **racer12306** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:54 pm

Nick Drake wrote:the salesman said they were much better than the stockers in snow.

a cheese wheel is better in the snow than stock tires

Knoxville_R/T · Post by **Knoxville_R/T** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:13 am

es100's did not impress me. I ran them on the 15" in a 205/50 and the 512's on rota 16" in 205/50 and the 512's were hands down better for straight line. Now the walls on the es100's were stiff and helped in the turns, but I still favor the 512's more.

kc2005ptgt · Post by **kc2005ptgt** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:56 am

I have 205/55/15 on mine and love them... great traction in wet and dry, plus they were inexpensive. I am buying soem for my wife's cars oon.

Nick Drake · Post by **Nick Drake** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:48 pm

racer12306 wrote:
Nick Drake wrote:the salesman said they were much better than the stockers in snow.
a cheese wheel is better in the snow than stock tires

Truth!

bige1030 · Post by **bige1030** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:43 pm

tamadrumr88 wrote:yes theyre good tires but im a sucker for 205/55-15 yoko es100's

You mean these? What tires do you use in the winter?

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:21 pm

Well i finally got my Falken ZE512 installed. It took almost a month for the tire shop to get them in.

I'm so dissapointed with them. I still have a vibration at highway speed. It was good for about the first 5 min or so, then the vibration came back. I dont know if its the tire, the road, or if this is just normal. Plus, they look butt ugly compared to my other tires. Looking at them from straight on front or behind, they look real skinny, almost like the stockers.

What a waste of money

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:31 pm

daaboots wrote:Well i finally got my Falken ZE512 installed. It took almost a month for the tire shop to get them in.

I'm so dissapointed with them. I still have a vibration at highway speed. It was good for about the first 5 min or so, then the vibration came back. I dont know if its the tire, the road, or if this is just normal. Plus, they look butt ugly compared to my other tires. Looking at them from straight on front or behind, they look real skinny, almost like the stockers.

What a waste of money

yep...they suck as a performance tire as well. very loose block pattern. they are essentially an all-season radial that happens to come in low profile sizes. they are good in the rain. however, the tread width is indeed narrower than similar sized tires. i have 205-40-17's and the tread width is only 6.5". the sidewall also flexes significantly more than other tires that i've had. even 205-50-15 yoko's were stiffer. i won't buy them again. i'll just bite the bullet and get either the azenis or something else. oh btw forget the 150+ z rating. my tires get downright scary around 115-120.

JRM · Post by **JRM** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:14 pm

yoko's ftw

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:48 pm

Great.. I went from garbage tires to slightly better garbage tires that look aweful

What a complete waste of money.

What does "ftw" mean??

JRM · Post by **JRM** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:50 pm

for the win

magnus · Post by **magnus** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:43 am

Do you have rims? I only ask becuase I though that if you don't have those inner rings to help make the rim "hubcentric", then there will be vibration because of how the rim sits on the hub.

Not sure though. There is a thread over on Srtforums about it. Might want to look into that.

*Edit*

I just took a look at this thread:

http://www.srtforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215138

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:29 am

^^ yeah i have hub centric rings. It was really weird. Everything felt fine for about the first 10min, then the vibration came back.

I'm just gonna go back to the tire shop again. This will be about my 7th time

I'm sure they're gonna hate me soon.

Knoxville_R/T · Post by **Knoxville_R/T** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:04 pm

Take it to shop that has a hunter 9700. It will apply road force to the tire to find the problem. If you change the tires and it is still there, then it is a greater possibility that it is something else. The high spot of the rim and the tire could be lined up on top of each other. Check out this link for more information.

http://www.gsp9700.com/

I had to have my srt put on one b/c I could not get rid of the vibrations. The problem was that the high spot of the rim and the tire were meeting on 3 out of 4 wheels.

I had the 512's on my car after I had the es100's and the falkens provided better rain and dry drip(at the track, most likely due to a more flexiable sidewall), but the es100's had better cornering

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:07 pm

Knoxville_R/T wrote:Take it to shop that has a hunter 9700. It will apply road force to the tire to find the problem. If you change the tires and it is still there, then it is a greater possibility that it is something else. The high spot of the rim and the tire could be lined up on top of each other. Check out this link for more information.

http://www.gsp9700.com/

I had to have my srt put on one b/c I could not get rid of the vibrations. The problem was that the high spot of the rim and the tire were meeting on 3 out of 4 wheels.

I had the 512's on my car after I had the es100's and the falkens provided better rain and dry drip(at the track, most likely due to a more flexiable sidewall), but the es100's had better cornering

Thats great info

When you did this did the tire shop cover the cost of the balancing??

Knoxville_R/T · Post by **Knoxville_R/T** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:20 pm

I had them balanced at firestone 2 times, this never fixed it so I took the car to Fisher Tire and they fixed it. Cost me $80 since they had to unmount and remount the 3 tires. Took it back to Firestone and they did cover it for me.

DesperatePhotographer · Post by **DesperatePhotographer** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:08 pm

as much as it helps....
i run those tires on my race car... ( a 94 dodge shadow) for the speedway... i know it isent the same application, but on those tracks it is amazking... no slip , great traction......... no coplaints here.. but again that is a stock car.... not a everyday drive car.... (we run her hard)

lol

derk

Post by **jonnymopar** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:52 pm

DesperatePhotographer wrote:my race car... ( a 94 dodge shadow)

Hell yeah! Older FWD Dodge is my game.

Sorry, carry on.

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:46 pm

Well I got home, raised each corner of the car, and gave the wheels a good spin......

all 4 tires are out of round. They move up and down when you look at them straight on. So either I got 4 more bad tires or my rims are bad.

I'm so frustrated.

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:43 pm

geez, if it wasn't for bad luck you wouldn't have any luck at all. hopefully knoxville's advice will help.

btw knox, did you ever find the floor mats that you were going to send me? pm me.

daaboots · Post by **daaboots** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:45 pm

Well this is the plan. I'm gonna get a full refund for the rims and tires, put the stockers back on

, and wait till the spring for the discounts to come out. I found a local shop that does that special wheel balancing and they said that if I bought a rim/tire package they would use it if necessary.