Been searching tires like crazy lately for replacements but I think I've confused myself now from looking at so many different types. I like the 760 over the 960 because I don't need an all-weather but just a good summer tire with wet traction (live in Florida so we see lots of rain). The previous owner put on those crappy Nexen N3000 tires which absolutely suck in the rain or any drop of water for that matter and they are very noisy.

Anyone with experience on these tires?

 

Try this Tire Rack site for that tire under surveys and specs:

Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport


And this French site:

PNEUS AUTO BRIDGESTONE POTENZA RE 050 A : vente de PNEUS AUTO BRIDGESTONE sur Pneus-Online[Pneus_Tailles]--S-[potenza]&xts=223990&gclid=CIjNrvaZoawCFcKDDgodazh-_w

FYI it looks like the are coming to the US soon to give some competition to Tire Rack and Discount Tires.


This indicates they are what you want from the graph on the right, excellent in the dry and wet, no good in snow, good noise and ride control.


We ran these on our Mini Cooper S but they were run flats and I have to say they had razor sharp handling, wet or dry, useless in the snow as a one hour tire spinning exercise to get home one day demonstrated that normally took five minutes to get up our hill, but they had the harshest ride and noise I have ever had from a tire.

Switched to a higher profile and regular (non-run flat) tires over the objections of the tire shop (threw a can of run flat in the back) and transformed the ride and noise....still great go-kart like handling but not quite razor sharp...it was for us a good trade off as it made driving the car more than 10 miles a pleasure instead of painful jaw clamping over man hole covers and any road not glass smooth.

The noise level on Tire Rack and Pneus seems to be much better than my experience with them would indicate but again ours were the very harsh run flats.

good luck.

jamjax

 

I purchased the Ventus V12 evo K110 which is Hankook's Max Performance Summer tire for $660 a couple of months ago from Tirerack to replace the same crap Nexen tires. I'm quite happy with them. Mostly they are quiet and are ZR rated which the Bridgestones are not.

Advice worth what ya paid for it...

Hankook Ventus V12 evo K110

 

I've recently changed from Michelin Pilot Sport's to the Bridgestone Potenza RE50 - Awesome dry grip, car doesn't go out in the rain so can't vouch for that side of performance, but I will correct the other poster, mine are Y96 rated, meaning 180mph+ and extra heavy load, a serious performance tyre that incidentally are fitted to Bugatti Veyron, obviously with added performance.