Thread: Nankang or falkens?

So I'm in a dilemma, I got my wheels and looking around for tires. These are set of 4s brand new I'm talking about, price, installation, tax, everything. Now I can get falken fk 452s for the most.
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I can get nankang ns-ii for $170 cheaper
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Or I can get Goodyear eagle rsa for $40 cheaper than the falkens
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wheels are the tsw, 19x8. Obviously only summer usage out of them. I'm really leaning for the falkens and can get them Friday, but I'm paying quite a bit for them. The nankangs I'm tempted because its 170 cheaper. And I can get them tomorrow. Just looking for opinions on what you guys think, thank you

would not buy nankang. i like cheap knockoff tires, but come on...

goodyear, meh.

i ran falken fk452s, they are a nice tire but they wear fairly quickly. out of the three i would pick the falkens.

Haha well for cheap I found federal formoza fd2s for $525-$550 and federal ss-595s for $560 installed mounted balanced. Or I can order wanli's off ebay, set of 4 for $400 then I'd have to balance em..then maybe nankang were better I thought. But I don't care for the eagles, I've had em before. Leaning toward falkens but have options n falkens are a couple hundred more than I just said.

federal actually makes good tires, don't just toss them off to the wayside.

Lol so it comes down to federal or falkens..federals may take a week or two they said or just a couple days. N the price difference is like 300. Here's the formozas
Formoza FD2 - OnlineTires.com
heres the ss595
SS-595 - OnlineTires.com

SS-595 or FK-452, those should be your choices.

Agreed, skip goodyears, they will just seperate and blow up then ruin body panels.

Originally Posted by Bio248

SS-595 or FK-452, those should be your choices.

Okay sweet, difference of 260 almost. Maybe ill try the cheapies out. I'm glad I asked, thank you!

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

Agreed, skip goodyears, they will just seperate and blow up then ruin body panels.

Yeah the sales lady prob just wanted more money out of me! I don't care for them tho either just threw all my options out there, thanks!

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

Agreed, skip goodyears, they will just seperate and blow up then ruin body panels.

Hope this is an exaggeration or a problem based on your guys living up at the north pole.

I'm rolling Goodyear RSAs 245/45/18s...

I was looking at the Falkin FK452s, the Hankook V12 Evos, or the GY RSAs and went with the RSA's soley because I could charge through my work and they just cost me $25 per week for 7-8 months. Beat throwing away $800 all at once. They have been good tires, nothing pheonminal but ride well in wet/slushy weather, hold well on dry. Haven't got a complaint to them.

The falkins should be a good tire tho too. Ran the 512s before, they were really nice.

Originally Posted by TLSheff

Hope this is an exaggeration or a problem based on your guys living up at the north pole.

I'm rolling Goodyear RSAs 245/45/18s...

I was looking at the Falkin FK452s, the Hankook V12 Evos, or the GY RSAs and went with the RSA's soley because I could charge through my work and they just cost me $25 per week for 7-8 months. Beat throwing away $800 all at once. They have been good tires, nothing pheonminal but ride well in wet/slushy weather, hold well on dry. Haven't got a complaint to them.

The falkins should be a good tire tho too. Ran the 512s before, they were really nice.

ive had the rsas on my monte before. I really never had a problem with them either or nothing I could complain about. For the price they were asking I'd rather have gotten the falkens. That was all. N in reality I'm just going with the federals now even. Just because they're cheapest and somewhat decent. I had my rsa'/s thru winter and all tho, just was going to go with falkens over them.

I'd say other Falken or Michelin. I've had bolth Falken Ziex and Michelin Pilots with no problems.

try the Hankook Ventus summer only tires. The best summer tire I have experienced.

anything that comes between you and the ground you dont wanna cheap out on. like shoes, tires, mattresses.

Originally Posted by buickman104

try the Hankook Ventus summer only tires. The best summer tire I have experienced.

They wear pretty quickly to me... I bought 2 front tires and a wheel alignment for my GXP in June, and I'll be replacing them in a month or 2. I've probably put 10,000 miles or so on them... For 2 hundred and something a tire I expected more...

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Originally Posted by buickman104

try the Hankook Ventus summer only tires. The best summer tire I have experienced.

This

Put about 40k on mine before I hit a pothole and caused bubbling on the tires. Still had a good amount of thread left.

Is that right? Maybe it's because I can't rotate them.

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Could of been the reason. I rotated them every oil change. I plan on getting another set after my Nankangs need replacing if money's on my side then.

Originally Posted by Odi

anything that comes between you and the ground you dont wanna cheap out on. like shoes, tires, mattresses.

And you know so well since you've been through so many tires in your long life..