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Originally Posted by TheRealJA105
Well TC i think I'm officially taking claim of better front tire wear than you with this set. Unless you have a better set than this pic. I however have to do the higher street pressure to even mine out. I didn't get to actually cord these tires at Nelson Ledges this weekend but they are damn close. Nelson does not have much paved paddock so I had to ask the Instructors/crew if I could pull my car by their trailer to get it on the pavement to swap my fronts after the morning sessions, because i thought and now still think i could have made it through the 2 afternoon sessions with them swapped. But because i was over there in front of them a few instructors and the safety steward came over and told me they didn't want me going out on them (they said i had 3 laps till cords).
Well i had my BRAND NEW 19x10.5s with Kumho V720 ACRs in 295 square with me so I said I could change them all out even though i really didn't want to use them this day. So anyways, i did the swap and to my dismay, 10 min into the session in which i never got a clean lap anyways, my car got extremely squirrely coming out of a corner and my steering wheel was way out of straight coming down the next straightaway. I did a cool down lap and pitted. When i jacked the car up later to swap wheels back for driving home, i found my driver front ACR tire had the inside belts delaminate from the carcass and basically blew up inside the tire. The tire had no leaks and still held air, but this is clearly a defective tire and I'm glad i didn't have a major issue.
FYI I was still within 1 second of my #1 time here with those G3s and I ran a 1:12 flat on the ACRs with some traffic intervention.
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Woooahhh, that is scary. I've had this happen in the past with junk trailer tires, but never seen it on a track tire. Glad it didn't blow, that would have been a MESS.