Falken Ziex ZE-912 Tire

Liked the tire until it snowed

Strengths: Bought them in the early fall and was pleased with them.

Weakness: Then it snowed. I am 57 years old and have lived exclusively in Michigan and Colorado. I have driven over a million miles in my work career. These are the WORST tires in the snow that I have ever had.

If you live somewhere where it doesn't snow---these are good tires. If you live where it snows--you would be advised to look elsewhere.

Not a lasting tire!!!!

Strengths: Good wet weather traction and handling. Decent performance, though not as good as the Bridgestone Potenzas they replaced. They do provide a slightly better ride the the Potenzas.

Weakness: Poor tread life.

I purchased a set of 4 for my Corolla S. Loved them and still do, except that with barely 15000 miles on them the wear bar indicators are almost showing. This vehicle weighs less than 2800 pounds so these tires should last close to there 60000 mile tread life warranty.

Not Impressed Overall

Strengths: Great fuel Mileage, Quiet Ride

Weakness: Bad tread life at less than 25K and were bald.

Put these on a 06 Dodge Charger SE in 215/65-17s. They were a improvement over the OEM Goodyear Integrity's in Handling & Snow/Ice, but not by much. Seem to get really good MPG after installing them. After first snow season they really questionable on Ice/snow and towards end of life they made the car squirrely on the highway. As a somewhat big RWD car, not sure if is the tires or car that sucks...

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Great Tire

Strengths: Quiet & Great Handling in Dry and Wet Weather

Weakness: none

I got these tire back in May 2008 and I'm nothing but happy with them. I got them at a great price and they have preformed as promised. I have them on my AWD 2001 Audi S4 ( mys4.org/... ) and went with a 235/45/17 vs the stock 225/45/17 which I think helps with the handling. I've yet to take them in the snow yet but I look forward to it.

Good Ride but so so handling

Strengths: Comfortable and Quiet Ride

Weakness: Imprecise handling and so so cornering capability

We purchased this tire to replace the soon to be discontinued ZE-512, thinking that this will be a direct replacement with improvements, boy were we in for a surprise. The ZE-912 is a completely different animal than ZE-512. Where ZE-512 is focused on handling and grip, the ZE-912's forte is on ride and noise. In fact, these tire changed the characteristic of the car quite drastically. The ZE-912...

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Falken Ziex ZE-912 replaces ZE-512

Strengths: Comfort, nice handling

Weakness: Tread wear mileage

I read the review from Impala96 just before going down to have a set of Falken ZE-912's put on to replace a set of ZE-512's as he did. And for the same reason - I thought they were the as-good-as-or-better-than replacements for the 512 which I can no longer get here locally. The ZE-512's were indeed, a great handling tire but I had bought them off the internet and could not easily collect on the...

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Not a year around tire

Strengths: Quite ride and good handling

Weakness: Bad traction on snow and ice

Put them on my Honda Civic SI and have been mostly pleased. I will say that I’m what you would call an aggressive driver with a heavy left foot. The tires have proven to have a quiet ride and with good handling but I did have to increase the tire pressure to 40 psi anything less and they felt squirelly. After two years and approximately 30k miles wear has been better than expected. The only...

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Very good so far

Strengths: good price for what you get nice looking tread good combo of performance and comfort

Weakness: lower end tread life it is said(cant say myself have not had them long enough)

I just had a full set of these ZE-912s mounted on my 2000 Honda Accord SE today.I have stock wheels and nothing modified on my car besides having a drop in K&N air filter. After the shop was done I took a drive around some local roads I live in Florida so roads are pretty much flat but you can find some good twisty roads in the rural area I live in. I could feel a notable improvement as soon as I...

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Great tire for the price

Strengths: Excellent wet traction, quiet ride, good all around tire

Weakness: None discovered yet

These tires are a huge improvement over the stock tires on a 2005 Accord. They are quiet on the road, hold the road well when cornering, have a good ride quality, and excellent traction wet or dry. I was a little hesitant to buy them based on reviews of the previous model, but am glad I got these instead of other tires costing far more.

Nice tire, great price

Strengths: Sticky tire composition, extremely good handling on curvy mountain roads, quiet, great for midsized car or wagon, long warranty

Weakness: Sidewalls could stand to be a little firmer but that would probably take away from comfort. Doesn't seem to affect handling hardly at all.

I have these tires on a 2000 Volvo V70 wagon. They replaced a set of Toyo Proxes H-rated tires. Being also H-rated, these tires are good at just about any speed including freeway speeds, IMO. These tires are actually stickier than the Proxes and the car seems to lean less around curves with these tires despite the softer sidewalls. Pushing them can make noise, but they will still grip well past...

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