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Old 7/14/10, 04:33 PM
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Nitto NT05s just arrived

Just got some Nitto NT05s in the mail today. I won't get them mounted for another week and a half because I'm getting married Saturday and I won't have time. Hopefully these will help my autocross times.
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They are some seriously bad *** looking tires.
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Originally Posted by ryan1112
I won't get them mounted for another week and a half because I'm getting married Saturday and I won't have time.
Weak excuse.
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Can you measure the width with a tape measure?
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I just measured and it looks like the contact patch is 10" wide and 10.75 total width.
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Those are some good looking tires!
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I've had my Nitto's NT05's on since spring. They are very good. 295/35/18 I love them



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Originally Posted by ryan1112
I just measured and it looks like the contact patch is 10" wide and 10.75 total width.
Appreciate it. I've always thought my tires seemed small but I guess it's on par with Nitto's sizing.

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Just got them installed.
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The wife still let you drive that thing now?
Old 7/27/10, 01:12 PM
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HAHA. Only when I'm nice. I made sure to purchase the tires before I said the vows. I'll post pictures of what I did to the church parking lot when I can get them from my camera.

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Do you mind posting some side shots of your car? I'm interested in the Pentar wheels for my VB GT/CS.

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Good looking tires..
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Looks great, heard some good reviews on them... they were one of my top runners when I was looking for new wheels/tires, until I found a package that included tires.
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Originally Posted by demerson3814
Do you mind posting some side shots of your car? I'm interested in the Pentar wheels for my VB GT/CS.

Here are some side shots. Not the nt05s.
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Well I autocrossed on the new tires yesterday. The nt05s have a lot of grip and are very predictable. The never just let go without waring.

The only thing is that the edges of the center rib got rounded down pretty bad. I don't know if this is normal or should be expected from 8 autocross runs. Another guy with a WRX STI has nt05s and has the same issue. I marked on the picture where it wore down and I'll take a picture them tonight.
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What does everyone think. Is this "normal" for 1 day of autocrossing?
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Soft tires, wide tread blocks, seems reasonable to me. KDWs are much harder, so probably got a lot more life out of them.

Where did you buy them from?
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I got them from http://discounttires.com/


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