ya, he had another thread when this started this where he was adamant about staying with 15's. as for 200 tread wear, i don't want my handling car with tires over a year old anyway. might as well get them sticky and wear em' out :lol:
Which is fine if you only drive in dry and warm conditions or your car is a track car only. But if your car sees wet weather, or temperatures below 50°F those sub-200 treadwear tires will be worse than having all seasons in the summer. Tires designed for track use work best at "normal" track temperatures, and heat cycling is an issue for those tires. So yeah, if you're talking track only fine. But for street use, no thanks. The performance will fall off rapidly as the heat cycles increase, and with any kind of colder temperatures.
Even the Falken Azeni's I'm running now are probably marginal for year round use. I was happily surprised the other day running them in the rain as they did pretty well, but I'm not so delusional as to think they're the best for rainy driving. Just that even as a daily driver they'll see a lot more dry conditions than wet. Always a trade off.
