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Old 07-20-2020, 07:36 PM
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I will not tell you which brand to choose, but will rather offer suggestions to help you make that choice.

I am guessing that you do not see a lot of precipitation in Utah, but irrespective because yo u never know when your will come across water on the road, pay close attention to the tread pattern. Some of the better, i.e., stickier, tires have minimal tread and wide tires with little tread on a high HP car with a light rear end will switch ends on you in a hurry if they come across wet pavement. You're not going to be tracking the car so I would make a choice based upon overall performance. The sticker tires do need to warm up to behave properly and that may take a while in colder situations.

I would also suggest paying close attention to the tread wear rating. Any tire with a tread were rating of 100 or less is going to be sticky and not only may throw stones, but it will embed them and grab and hold onto anything else it finds on the road. I recall my first race coming off the track and my front end was bouncing all over the place and I thought that my alignment had somehow come loose. The problem was that the tires had picked up a lot of chunks of shredded rubber that I had to scrape off the tire. Also, tires with low tread wear rating will scrub off rubber when hot and deposit it on the side of your car in streaks. A little WD-40 will remove the rubber from your fenders without damaging the paint.
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