[QUOTE]Originally posted by KevinS2K
[B]10,000 miles for the rears.

 

The tires seem to be pretty easy to get at Tire Rack.

 

Like it was posted earlier, the tires go from great to horrible in the blink of an eye! Especially in the wet. I realized I needed rear tires when I started to hydroplane in the rain. Since I was driving to Dineyworld in two days the last time this happened, I was pretty much at the local tire dealerships mercy. i called around, and 4 shops gave me the same song and dance about the S-02's being "phased out." Only one shop could get them (S-03's) before I left, and quoted me the lowest price. I got lucky for once.... I was not driving to Orlando without getting new tires. It rains once in a while down here in So. Florida!!! Like a foot in a day!! I broke the new tires in real fast....

 

Sorry I didn't mean to be "glib" in my reply. The standard S-02s are being phased out, if not gone already. The OE S-02s are still in production. I'm assuming that it has something to do with the requirement to supply replacement parts for a car for certain number of years, and naturally becuase they still need them for the 2003's that are being made. I have not tried the S-03s myself, but I understant that while wet performance improves, dry handling is not as good. Since I've never had a problem in the rain (as long as you have tread) I have returned to S-02s. FWIW, on the S2000 I've also had Kumho 712s, Bridgestone RE-730s, BFG KDW and the S-02 was the best of all of them.

 

Got 30000 (no lie) on my fronts and 23000 on the rears. Had to replace both rears at 7000 after taking a large sharp piece of wooden pallet in the right sidewall. Had to get both rears for proper handling and acceleration without pulling. I do a fair amount of freeway commuting and not enough apex-strafing. No dragster starts either.

SO-2's were a snap to get from TireRack and drop-shipped to a local installer.