Tires, thats the one area I have had lots of experience with on this car.

I buy just about all my tires from tirerack.com. Good prices, quick service. Read the ratings other folks give and try and concentrate on like vehicles (I don't put much faith in what somebody driving a chevy cavilier says about a tire I'm putting on my car, just too different).

The most expensive set of tires I put on were the first, they were pirelli p6000 sport veloce's (say that with a tongue roll), at about 106 per tire from tirerack. These lasted 35k miles. Were the only "V" rated set I ever put on it. Good handling tire.

I followed that up with a set of continental ch95's. They lasted 25k miles. Also good manners.

Getting kinda tired (pun intended) of tires lasting only 25-35k miles, I went for a set of pirelli p4000 tires. These puppy's lasted 45k miles and were decent handling tires. Would have replaced them with same, but could not find them anywhere. Bought them from discounttiresdirect.com.

Another set of conti ch95's. Another 25k miles.

Current set of tires is a set of Kuhmo ecsta hp4 716. So far, so good, probably have about 5k miles on em. Also from tirerack.com I would have tried sumitomo's, but they were out of stock and I needed a set then and there.

I've never tried Michelins or some other high end brand. I honestly don't know if they would wear past 35k miles. After spending the bucks on the first set of pirellis and not getting lots of milse out of them, I think limiting it to about 60 a tire seems to give the best payback. I attribute the short wear life to the fact that it is a 55 series tire and the car isn't light at about 3600 lbs. Good luck with what you decide on.
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97 S90 with 166K miles still going strong