Goodyear  Eagle F1 Supercar EMT

This is a great tire. Designed for this car & it works great. I did have a flat while over 50 miles from home, the run flat technology was a life-saver. Local dealer wouldnt patch it, would order a new one for over $600(!), indep tire shops didnt stock it, and couldnt patch it b/c hole was too big. So, I drove it home and fixed it later. My driving is on twisty roads and open highways. Always hard cornering. Always high grip in dry conditions. My Corvette is a convertible and tire noise is not an issue. I read the negative reviews of this tire with disbelief. Tire life is directly inverse to grip; less life more grip. Very simple. I dont expect to get max mileage out of these tires, I expect great performance. I have complete faith in these tires at 180mph+. 17,500 miles and the fronts are pretty bald, rears still have some life in them. Yes, they are expensive, but you get what you pay for. For other Corvette owners, I dont see how you could forego runflats just to try and save a buck. Youll pay waaay more for the towing bill. Im buying another set and expect to love them just as much.

Have these tires on my CTS-V and it seems like they are glued to the road. Ive taken 45 mph curves at 90+ with the lateral G-force meter buried at .99 to determine there limits and they dont seem to have any. I wouldnt try this with anyone else in the car or on a road with anyone else around though! I would have to say they are an excellent all around tire on dry\wet pavement and that the only drawback to them is the tread life as Ill probably get around 12k-15k out of them. With a tread rating of 220 there is really no other competition. Ill have a new set on my V car when the time comes.

From reading some of the other reviews I must have established a record for mileage on these tires. I am at 32,500 and expect I will be at the wear bars within another 2500.(Which is why I am on this site shopping) As most will attest, a great handeling tire, the term "like it was on rails" comes to mind. Biggest complaints would be, (1)the cost to buy,(2)the cost to repair and (3)the increase in noise as the miles go on. It is a very stiff ride, but that is probably as much a function of the Car and Z51 package as the tire. Even with the high miles I have yet to have any complaints when driving in a Florida afternoon down pour. The three best attributes in my opinion would be (1)Overall Handeling (2)Dry Handeling and (3)Wet Handeling

Dry weather traction and handing is excellent. Noise on concrete roads is unacceptable. Wet weather traction is poor.



I followed a Ford Explorer on a wet, unfamiliar mountain road in Utah, and I honestly had trouble keeping up with him, as my car's traction control kept intervening to control wheelspin. I know that putting down the power that this car has is a challenge, but these tires are a major disappointment. I can see why Chevrolet has changed to the Michelin tire for the ZR1.



I can hardly wait to wear these tires out and replace them with a non-runflat tire that performs better.

My dealer compted me when the first set wore out at 6400 miles. At the time I told my service rep "thanks but what are we going to do at 12,000". He didnt have an answer and I didnt make it to 12,000 miles. What starts as good dry and reasonable wet traction is gone by 4500 to 5000 miles. These tires are pure junk. On a 40 degree day with damp roads the tires are not safe to drive.



Judging from numerical ratings even with the -----ing this survey is overrating this tire (mostly 5 -7). A $350 performance tire should still perform at 5000 miles.



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These were the OEM tire on my Z06. They were also the OEM tire on my previous Corvette Z51. The 8/32 original tread depth is less than most competitors except track only tires and certainly does not help long life. These tires are extremely noisy but the biggest problem is very poor wet weather traction. I felt as if I was diving much too fast at 55 mph during anything less than a light rain. Worse was the possibility of standing water on the road which caused instant hydroplaning. In addition to the very poor wet traction, I was keenly aware that I was driving at 45 to 55 in rain while trucks were whizzing by at 70. My only recourse was to find the first off ramp and park while I waited for the rain to end. If you ever travel where rain is possible, these are not the tires for you! I did get much better tread life than most owners since these cars were rarely driven except for trips and never used on the track. The tires were down to wear strips at 20,000 miles.

I do not have any major complaints about this tire other than the price, which is attributed to the fact they are extended mobility tires. I would rather spend a few hundred less and get a set of Michelan PS2s and risk getting a flat than to pay extra for a tire that does not perform as well. Also, I do not think that the tire is well suited for a car with 400 hp, as it looses traction too easily when accelerating. Cornering grip is excellent, and the tires do a great job keeping the car planted to the ground when pulling .9 g's. The tires are also very comfortable and quiet, but the treadwear is poor. I am down to about 60% with only 8500 miles, and at $475 per rear tire, I would hope the tire would last longer and perform a little better. If your car is a daily commuter, I may still recomend these tires because of the EMT technology and because of the ride comfort and noise level.

I like the tire performance ,but the noise is sometimes overbearing, except with the windows down, which I do not do much and it overpowers the wifes "directions"!! Do not expect to get over 20,000 on these and I am considering replacing them when the time comes with all season non-runflat tires. I do not drive my Vette in rainy or other bad weather just so as not to get it dirty and avoid the lunatics on the road today.

Whats the word Im looking.....oh yeah, HORRENDOUS! The treadwear on these tires is pitiful, and Cadillac should be going to bat for their customers who spend 50k on a car to get 7-9k miles out of them. They need to come up w/ something else, and at $330 per tire? Laughable, yet VERY frustrating. Dry grip is exc, but combine poor wear, road noise, and ride comfort, I wont be buying a replacement set of these things.

Maybe its the way the CTS-V is designed, but these tires do not last long on this car, not even the average 15,000 for Z-rated tires! Way too expensive to change tires every 8,000 miles. Im buying some BF Goodrich KDWs, half the price and Ill find spare tire equipment and the full size spare to lug around in the back. Way cheaper in the end!

This is the worst treadwear Ive had on any tire, by far. The characteristic of this tire causes a lot of wheelhop, and a very short lived treadlife. At 6500 miles (6000 are probably highway miles), I have 2/32 tread left and need to get them replaced. They came on my car brand new as OEM equipment. I had to have the tires rotated at only 3500 miles. Everyone who has these tires on the CTS-V complains of the horrible wheelhop they contribute to (when the tires are replaced people notice less wheelhop) and the fact that they wear away like no tomorrow. All this for a tire that retails at $499? Are you kidding me? Worst tire ever, do not buy.

Id heard the nefarious stories about these tires, but I figured other folks probably drive them harder than I would. Turns out, they didnt. With never a burnout and probably 90% highway driving, I hit the wear bars at 7000 miles (in light of rotation at 4k miles). I never so much as did a burnout on them. They perform great in the dry, but Goodyear needs to add some tread depth or improve the compound. Noone should expect to get less than 10k miles from a set of highway-driven tires. It seems the vette guys protest the V guys complaints about tire wear, but they seem to do better mileage wise than most V guys on the same tire - probably due to something in the Caddy suspension geometry that makes these a poor fit for the V in terms of wear.



If I can find a set of the backordered GS-D3s before my car is running on the bare rims, Ill try them before showing Goodyear the door. Otherwise Ill try Pilot Sports or KDWs.