Bridgestone Potenza RE040

[Reidy10_0]

My mate has a garage, I asked him to get me two front tires using his trade discount.

I have a 2006 WRX fitted with Potenza RE050s all round.

My mate got my two RE040s are these tires as good or better than the RE050?

Should i get them changed for RE050 tires to keep all tires the same?

Cheers for advice

[buckman63]

Stick with RE050's. The Mazda RX8 is fitted with RE040's from the factory, but in the RX8 community the RE050 tyre is regarded as a much better tyre and has a higher dealer price. RE040's are slippy in the wet and don't offer the same amount of road holding generally as the RE050's do. Can be a matter of opinion, driving style and not consistant across all marque's, but the vast majority of RX8 owners choose RE050's as a replacement tyre.

Edited by buckman63 on Wednesday 12th December 10:28

[stevieb]

buckman63 said:

Stick with RE050's. The Mazda RX8 is fitted with RE040's from the factory, but in the RX8 community the RE050 tyre is regarded as a much better tyre and has a higher dealer price. RE040's are slippy in the wet and don't offer the same amount of road holding generally as the RE050's do. Can be a matter of opinion, driving style and not consistant across all marque's, but the vast majority of RX8 owners choose RE050's as a replacement tyre.

Edited by buckman63 on Wednesday 12th December 10:28

As above really but same as my experience from a Impreza Owner..