[GH85Carrera]

My new tires for the 911 arrived yesterday.

The Michelin Pilot Sports were mounted on my wheels on July 3rd 2019. I made sure they drove over some cobblestones of Rt 66 that is a few miles from my house, and then they took me to Key West, FL, French Lick, IN, and the Poconos mountains in PA. Three trips to Eureka Springs, AR, and I did Hallet Motorspeedway twice, and 130 miles of Eagles Canyon race track, and 20 or so autocrosses.

A total of 16,000 miles. The fronts still have a decent amount of wear left, but the rears are pretty slim on tread. No way I want to drive in the rain on them like that.

Michelin does not have any tires like that in production right now, "supply line: issues. So I went with the Continental Extreme Contact Sport tires. I liked the Michelins, and would have bought them again, but they are not available. We are going to Eureka Springs again in November, and I want tread on the tires for any more road trips.

The trip to PA was on tires just above the legal tread wear limit for the rear. With the weight of the engine over the rear tires I was not too worried for highway driving. I slow to 60 MPH in more than a light mist anyway.

I looked up the price, and the Michelins from 2019 were almost the same exact price as the Continentals now. Amazing. Of course I remember the good ol day of getting a set of 15s for my 911 mounted and balanced for 400 bucks. More than double that for the 17s.