Mickey Thompson Street Comp Tires

[Magz_rule]

Just ordered mine. FYI for all the people ordering some http://www.performanceplustire.com is the cheapest I have found. They are on sale until the 28th it says. Summit will price match as well but so far these guys have been nice to deal with.

[Jenner]

I guess I'll stick to the Goodyear supercars, maybe try the hankooks

[Destructo09]

Originally Posted by Demon 1LE

they overheat and fall off. It's a Cooper RS s tire. read reviews on those to get more info on these. Difference is in the shoulder, and it's a slight difference. These are street tires.

Where is your evidence of this? The M/T is actually quite a bit heavier tire than the Cooper, so I don't think you're right.

If it was the same tire with a slightly different shoulder then the tires would be pounds apart in weight.

The Cooper RS3-S is 31 lbs and the M/T street comp is 34 lbs, I don't think a simple tread design difference is going to make up for 3 lbs in each tire.

Not saying your wrong, just saying the evidence doesn't support that it's a rebranded Cooper, and yes I know Cooper owns M/T.

Also, unfortunately for some of us, we have to track on street tires, and if you really want to get down to it, no street tire is going to compete with a track tire. You just have to drive slower. So I don't think it's fair to say they'll overheat and fall off, because any street tire will do that if you over drive them.

I feel like you're passing judgement on a tire you've never used before here. You run 305 Hankooks on your car, so I seriously doubt you've run any Cooper tire.

[DemonZL1]

Originally Posted by Destructo09

Where is your evidence of this? The M/T is actually quite a bit heavier tire than the Cooper, so I don't think you're right.

If it was the same tire with a slightly different shoulder then the tires would be pounds apart in weight.

The Cooper RS3-S is 31 lbs and the M/T street comp is 34 lbs, I don't think a simple tread design difference is going to make up for 3 lbs in each tire.

Not saying your wrong, just saying the evidence doesn't support that it's a rebranded Cooper, and yes I know Cooper owns M/T.

Also, unfortunately for some of us, we have to track on street tires, and if you really want to get down to it, no street tire is going to compete with a track tire. You just have to drive slower. So I don't think it's fair to say they'll overheat and fall off, because any street tire will do that if you over drive them.

I feel like you're passing judgement on a tire you've never used before here. You run 305 Hankooks on your car, so I seriously doubt you've run any Cooper tire.

i have attached a photo of 4 mickey thompsons next to my car (305's)

in addition i will leave you with this link which may or may not work. If not, i will just quote the Mickey Thompson guy.

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=554679

my overheat statement came from forum reviews of the tire. google it if you'd like. i won't put all the links here.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice tire at a nice price. Even the Michelin PSS falls off on track duty.

[Destructo09]

Originally Posted by Demon 1LE

i have attached a photo of 4 mickey thompsons next to my car (305's)

in addition i will leave you with this link which may or may not work. If not, i will just quote the Mickey Thompson guy.

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=554679

my overheat statement came from forum reviews of the tire. google it if you'd like. i won't put all the links here.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice tire at a nice price. Even the Michelin PSS falls off on track duty.

I did have trouble finding some info on how they perform on track, so the link is helpful.

I would agree if you seriously want to get around a track as quick as possible that no street tire is going to accomplish that. From my time here though, usually when somebody asks how they will work on a road course they probably have nearly no experience with track time. So if they need a tire for a DD that might do one track event a year, then obviously buying track tires doesn't make sense. That was really my point.

I have heard the PSS gets greasy on track, that's one reason I decided against them and picked up 4 275/40 M/Ts one because of price, and two because I didn't find anything too negative about them.

They will probably be on the car for VIR in April, but I don't push my car super hard since it's my DD and we'll see how they go. Worst case, they were cheap, so it won't be a terrible thing if they don't hold up long.

The other option was the Continentals but I kept reading about how the sidewalls were soft, and I want something stick for a 3900 lb car going around an autocross course and suspect the extra weight in these tires is to stiffen them up.

Basically, my point being, I thought the they will melt and fall off comment probably won't hold true for the average person on this forum. There are a few of us that are really getting into or are into track time and autoX etc, but there's not a lot. So I think the better way to go about it would be to ask how much track experience they have and how fast they wanna go, because I bet for most of the guys here, a street tire would do double duty until they get fast.

[DemonZL1]

Even "slow" guys will notice a tire that starts to fall off. I'm one of them. Just keep it in mind. the MT's aren't bad tires, just don't expect too much out of them. Be safe.

[2Fr3shKicks]

just ordered my tires very excited, will be getting mines on Tuesday

[canecorso69]

Those of you who have just orders a set of 4....which sizes did you go with for fronts and rears?

[gelboy1015]

Havent gotten to drive around much on mine, but when I did, the tires didnt hook from a 30 roll in 2nd haha. 600 hp turbo car. Theyre just fine driving around, I like them.

[Destructo09]

Originally Posted by canecorso69

Those of you who have just orders a set of 4....which sizes did you go with for fronts and rears?

I bought 275/40R20 all around, putting them on stock 20x9s.

[VR Baron]

A freind has them and took 200 miles and finally broke in this weekend when we did 25 laps of auto cross on a rough surface. They did very well

[BamaRocker]

Here are mine...

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=412837

[FIFTY 1]

long-term update on these tires for me... On the stock Pirelli rears I got about 40K miles riding them down til the belts peeked through, Iv got 20K miles on the Street Comps now and the tread is just about gone. I live in Ohio and drive on dusty dirty roads, I had expected them to last longer.