Reply to "17" Tires: Options getting fewer & and your opinion on 285/40/17 size?"

About time for an update!! I'm committed to getting ZONKEY back on the road this year (hopefully in time for the POCA Monterey Fun Rally!!). So tires are back on my mind. If you look back in this thread, I'd sort of settled on the Continental EXTREMECONTACT DW in the 285/40/17 and 245/40/17 in front.

So, time to check what's available now (last check was in May of '15). Not much has changed AFAIKT, except that Conti is retiring the EXTREMECONTACT DW and replacing it (Feb 2017) with the new "EXTREMECONTACT SPORT"
http://www.continentaltire.com...coming-february-2017 and "including 17 new sizes, ranging from 15” – 20” " (no mention of old sizes they are discontinuing!)

Sounds great! So I called TireRack to see what they know. Sadly, not much at this time: no pricing or sizing info, at least that they would tell me.

Meanwhile the old DW's are on sale! The 285s are $155.55 and 245s are $112.45 for a $536.00 total. This seems like an incredible deal. The alternative in this size pairing is the Pirelli ZERO SYSTEM at $1,362.40 and they don't rate nearly as well!!

So, what to do? I'm strongly leaning toward the "known known" (as good old, should be dead by now if there were justice in this world, Rumsfeld would say) as I realistically, at age '72, won't be pushing things to the limit or noticing performance differences at the few % level.....