If you purchased a car in recent years, chances are that it came outfitted with all-season tires. This generally works, albeit not terribly well unless you live in a place like Florida or California, where seasons don’t often include temperatures below 45 degrees and any sort of precipitation. All-season tires have long been considered “no season” tires (jack of all seasons, master of none). …
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FlatSixes.com was recently invited to Michelin Tire’s inaugural “Influencer “ Tire School where I spent two days observing how Michelin tires are made, learning about their technology and testing their newest ultra-high performance tire, the Pilot Super Sport (Michelin is a sponsor of PorschePurist and they covered our cost of travel, lodging and meals for this event). As Motorsport Editor, …
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As an affiliate partner of Tire Rack we routinely get a number of promotional emails touting all sorts of specials. Almost all of these we don't pass along as they don't really pertain to Porsche owners. However, just the other day we received one such email that had a number of offers, including a $70 Rebate from Michelin.
Here's a complete list of all the current offers at the Tire Rack …
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About a month ago Michelin called and offered PorschePurist a trip to Dubai to test their new Ultra Performance tire; the Michelin Pilot Super Sport. Knowing of Michelin’s long standing partnership with Porsche, and that this tire is likely be a future original equipment fitment on some of its top end models, we eagerly accepted. Prior to the event the French tire company was tight lipped and …
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A few weeks ago, Porsche Purist received a cryptic invitation from our friends at Michelin. It came via telephone and asked questions like, "do you have a valid passport?". Well, turns out our fearless Motorsport Editor, Christian Maloof, has a passport, and (much like James Bond, but behind the wheel of a German car) was ready to hop on a plane on a yet-to-be determined mission to a secret track …
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Back in November of last year, Porsche announced they had extended their approval process for winter tires to include tires for both "young and old classics". As per the press release, "Offering customers this unusual service, the German manufacturer of sports cars enables drivers of older models to use the best available products on their car. Porsche is therefore providing valuable help and …
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The answer, it would appear, depends on who you ask. You see, Nitrogen is used in the space shuttle and in commercial airliners mostly because it is non-combustible. The likely hood of the tires on your Porsche getting hot enough, during normal driving, to explode is fairly slim . However, there are other reasons to consider Nitrogen.
Potential Problems from Using Compressed Air in Your …
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For those of you that have been long-term readers you’ll remember a post I did some time ago where I offered my research services to answer any Porsche related question. That post, “I’m not a Porsche Expert, but I Play one on the Internet” continues to generate a number of questions and I want to do my best to keep answering them for you.
In my opinion, it’s a win-win situation. You …
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On Monday I posted about choosing the right tire for your Porsche (any Posche). Specifically, I discussed how the new Sumitomo HTR Z III contradict the concept of having to pay (or over pay) for quality. My review was based on 1500 miles or so of ordinary and spirited street driving. Today's post is a review, compliments of John D. (Founder of Rennlist and PCA DE Instructor) of the Sumitomo HTR …
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When I purchased my 1997 Porsche 993 C4S the odometer read 24,000 miles. From the service history I could see that it had four new tires installed (Continental ContiSportContact 2s) less than 4,000 miles ago. This basically matched up with the information from my PPI and with my visual inspection upon receipt of the car.
Enjoying the car as much as I do, I clocked more than 6000 miles last …
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