The tires are for my S4 and it is a daily driver, but I was curious how many miles I can expect out of a set. I will be attending 2 or 3 autox this season but will mostly be driving on the street with them. Also, I would only assume they are pretty bad in the rain, but would anyone happen to have first hand experience?

TIA.

I've had them on my UrQ, when I still owned it, and on my CQ. They were nice and sticky, performed well in the rain/snow, were relatively quiet and did great on the race track during driving schools. I even did a few auto-x events with the UrQ and they did just fine. They were great tires for daily usage. They only negative thing I could say about them was they had a tendancy to hunt around a little. They liked to try and find every little imperfection on the road.

I had almost 20K on 'em in my A4 when I sold the car, and they weren't quite shot. now I have another set on my RX8, but only ~7K miles so far. cheap thrills, lotsa dry grip, rigorous ride characteristics.
excuse the crude analogy, but these tires are like having a sex-crazed slutty hot G/F....not ideal, but everyone needs to experience having at least once in their lives!

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/74232/tires_and_brakes_after_tgpr_004.jpg"></center><p>I take them off after track weekends but they are not bad on the street. Grippy, fairly quiet. A bit "coarse" compared to my Pirelli P Zero Neros. I have no idea of street milage, but they seem to last "forever" in track use. I've done 8 days so far ,and they look about half done. Have not driven them in rain.

The chunked like a mofo, and got slick after 5 hot laps at my 3300# track weight last year. I'd recommend the Hankook RS2, of which I've owned 2 sets and am very happy with for double duty.

I've got the RT-615s on a set of low priced but functional wheels for track use.

Car came with some Pirelli P6 All Seasons 235/40/18s - those Pirellis are fine on the street (where I drive like a grandma) but horrible on the track. So I run the P6s on the street, run the RT-615s on the track. One track weekend on them but I really like them. Grippy but communicative and predictable.

RT-615s on the street - drove them for about two weeks to knock the new off and I was pleasantly surprised. Too stiff a ride for me but not horrible. Rain performance was suprisingly good, not as good as the P6 but pretty good considering it was a monsoon (SF in Feb.).

If I was going for a high performance street tire I'd want more comfort. But after doing track days, I drive even more like a grandma on the street, so I'd probably shoot for more comfort than performance.

track day.

Three tire grinding 180 degree third gear turns in every lap. Not a great place for awd cars.
Two days there resulted in more wear than three days at Daytona and three days at Barber combined. Even though it is closeby, I probably won't do it again.

need to wear off the release agents at LRP tomorrow.


should have better info to base opinion then.

So far, they're OK in the rain!


a bit noiseier than my PS2's were (half the price though).

I got a bit under 15k street miles and 8 track days out of the first set before they corded. The last 1000 miles or so they were dangerous in the rain (no surprise) but with full depth they are great in the wet.

I'll meet you at our regular parking spot around 7am.

for the NASCAR banking. never again for me, and it's a :50 track.

Talladega GPR is not at the NASCAR track. It is a 1.5 mile privately owned flat track nearby.
Tough on tires and brakes with no significant straights for things to cool off.
I did do the banking thing with ACNA at Daytona last year. Cool but not challenging as long as nothing bad happens at 140 mph :-) I did catch myself brain fading at the braking point for the infield once and run too deep once. That was intresting!

track and dodge cones :)

unfortunately, a buddy of mine in his A4 wasn't as lucky and slammed into a concrete wall. no more A4.