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Best Tires for the Nissan 300ZX

Nissan 300ZX drivers have left 26 tire reviews on Tire Reviews, covering 153,950 miles of real world driving. Every tire they rated is ranked below, so you can see what actually works on this car.

  • 26owner reviews
  • 153,950 milescovered on them
  • 21different tires rated
  • 64%average tire score
Most fitted size - 3 reviews 265/35 R18 To scale, mm
Ø 643 265 93 18" 93 All 265/35 R18 data →

The quick answer

The quick answer - Nissan 300ZX
Season Owners' pick Owner rating Our category test
Summer Primewell PZ900 5.4 28% from 3 reviews Best Summer Tires

Highest weighted owner score from Nissan 300ZX drivers. Full rankings and the evidence behind them below.

The best rated tires for the Nissan 300ZX

Rated only by drivers of this car. Each tire needs at least 3 reviews from the Nissan 300ZX to be ranked; the order weights a tire's score by how many reviews back it, so one glowing review cannot top a table.

Summer tires

The highest rated tire in the Summer category for the Nissan 300ZX is the Primewell PZ900 - 28% from 3 owner reviews across 20,000 miles.

Summer tires ranked by Nissan 300ZX owner rating
# Tire Owner rating Reviews Distance reviewed TR Score
1 Primewell PZ900 28% 3 20,000 miles 5.4

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TR Score is the tire's overall Tire Reviews rating out of 10, built from independent test results and every owner review of that tire - not just the reviews from this car. The owner rating column is this car only.

The best rated tires that fit the Nissan 300ZX

The rankings above can only speak for tires a Nissan 300ZX driver has already reviewed. These are the highest rated tires we hold that are actually manufactured in the sizes these drivers run - 265/35 R18, 245/45 R16, 225/50 R16 and 225/45 R17 - whether or not anyone here has fitted them yet. They are ranked on the TR Score, which is built from independent test results and every owner review of that tire.

Summer tires

Our highest rated tire in the Summer category, in this car's sizes, is the Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 6, at 9.7 out of 10.

Highest rated Summer tires made in Nissan 300ZX sizes
# Tire TR Score Made in Nissan 300ZX reviews
1 Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 6 9.7 265/35 R18, 225/45 R17 Be the first →
2 Continental SportContact 7 9.7 265/35 R18 Be the first →
3 Bridgestone Potenza Sport Evo 9.5 265/35 R18, 245/45 R16, 225/45 R17 Be the first →
4 Continental PremiumContact 7 9.5 225/45 R17 Be the first →
5 Michelin Pilot Sport 5 9.4 265/35 R18, 225/50 R16, 225/45 R17 Be the first →
6 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S 9.4 265/35 R18, 225/45 R17 Be the first →

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All Season tires

No Nissan 300ZX driver has reviewed a tire in the All Season category yet. Of the ones made in this car's sizes, the Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF3 is our highest rated, at 9.6 out of 10.

Highest rated All Season tires made in Nissan 300ZX sizes
# Tire TR Score Made in Nissan 300ZX reviews
1 Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF3 9.6 225/45 R17 Be the first →
2 Michelin CrossClimate 3 9.5 265/35 R18, 225/45 R17 Be the first →
3 Continental AllSeasonContact 2 9.5 225/45 R17 Be the first →
4 BFGoodrich Advantage All Season 9.5 225/45 R17 Be the first →
5 Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 9.4 265/35 R18, 225/50 R16, 225/45 R17 Be the first →
6 Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3 9.4 225/45 R17 Be the first →

Want test data as well as owner opinion? Best All Season Tires → Test winner: Goodyear Vector All Season 4

Winter tires

No Nissan 300ZX driver has reviewed a tire in the Winter category yet. Of the ones made in this car's sizes, the Hankook Winter I*cept Evo 4 is our highest rated, at 9.6 out of 10.

Highest rated Winter tires made in Nissan 300ZX sizes
# Tire TR Score Made in Nissan 300ZX reviews
1 Hankook Winter I*cept Evo 4 9.6 265/35 R18 Be the first →
2 Goodyear UltraGrip Performance 3 9.5 225/45 R17 Be the first →
3 Michelin Alpin 7 9.5 225/45 R17 Be the first →
4 Bridgestone Blizzak 6 9.4 265/35 R18, 225/45 R17 Be the first →
5 Goodyear UltraGrip Ice 3 9.4 225/45 R17 Be the first →
6 Nokian Snowproof 3P 9.4 225/45 R17 Be the first →

Want test data as well as owner opinion? Best Winter Tires → Test winner: Goodyear UltraGrip Performance 3

All Weather tires

No Nissan 300ZX driver has reviewed a tire in the All Weather category yet. Of the ones made in this car's sizes, the Vredestein Quatrac is our highest rated, at 9.5 out of 10.

Highest rated All Weather tires made in Nissan 300ZX sizes
# Tire TR Score Made in Nissan 300ZX reviews
1 Vredestein Quatrac 9.5 225/45 R17 Be the first →
2 Vredestein Quatrac Pro EV 8.3 225/45 R17 Be the first →
3 Vredestein Quatrac Pro+ 8.1 225/45 R17 Be the first →

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Fitment comes from each tire's manufactured size list, and the sizes are the ones drivers reported when they reviewed. Check the size, load index and speed rating on your own doorplate before buying - a size a previous owner ran is not always the size your car left the factory on.

Every tire reviewed on the Nissan 300ZX

The complete record, including discontinued tires and tires with too few reviews to rank, ordered by the amount of evidence. A further 17 tires have a single review each; they count toward the totals but are not listed.

All tires reviewed by Nissan 300ZX drivers
Tire Season Owner rating Reviews Distance reviewed
Primewell PZ900 Summer 28% 3 20,000 miles
Nankang NS2 Replaced by Nankang Noble Sport NS20 Summer 84% 2 0 miles
Bridgestone Potenza s02 Replaced by Bridgestone Potenza S04 Pole Position Summer 77% 2 27,000 miles
Nexen N3000 Summer 65% 2 21,000 miles

Tire sizes Nissan 300ZX drivers run

The sizes fitted in the reviews on this page. Each one links to the top rated tires in that size, across every car.

What Nissan 300ZX drivers say

The most recent owner reviews from this car, in their own words.

50%
Toyo R888 R 275-40-17 Nissan 300zx 3,000 miles March 2, 2026
Went from 5995 to these. These take far less time to heat up, and I've only ever broken loose under extreme cold conditions in the dry. But in the wet, these are useless. Understeering and oversteering if not given the upmost care in moderate/light rain. Lastly, the wear has much to be desired. Driving around city and highway, with occasional hard drives these wear out in 6 months. The big issue is the cost. SO many better options at that price point. These are priced near pilot sports and do not touch that tire in its balance and performance. I would not recommend these tires.
76%
Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 235-40-18- Nissan 300ZX 7,000 miles February 24, 2021
Great tires, one of the best in my opinion. Fantastic dry grip, wet grip was good. Car used to spin them under hard acceleration. But 500+bhp car couldn't really complain. Lasted 7000 miles of hard driving and track use. Would definitely buy again
82%
Falken ZIEX ZE310 EcoRun 225-50-16-W Nissan 300ZX 200 miles March 25, 2020
Quiet, grip is good atm, and for the price I am happy. They seem to be able to handle 228bhp so am happy enough. Replaced some rather elderly Firestone Roadhawks and seem miles better in comfort and road noise with reasonable grip.
75%
Toyo Proxes TR1 205-55-16-V Nissan 300ZX 300 miles March 25, 2020
Work well for the price- dry grip is very good, wet not so much. Progressive runout when grip goes and sidewalls are much better than the old t1r. As a few people mentioned, tires are quite noisy and mildly vibrate like a wheel bearing is on the way out on some surfaces!
49%
Kumho Ecsta AST KU25 225-50-16- Nissan 300ZX 7,000 miles May 26, 2016
These tires absolutely suck on wet roads. I totaled my 300ZX because of the. Allow me to explain.
I have a NA Z32. 220 HP 200 TQ, so by no means is this considered a "fast car" by most standards. I've never had issues with these tires unless the road was wet. When driving these tires on wet road, they suddenly become the most unpredictable and deadly tires ever. Over the course of having them for 8 months, I've done many unintentional burnouts when its raining, even when a actively trying to take it easy. On time I was accelerating ffrom a red light and after shifting into 2nd the tires just lost all control and I fishtailed a little but recovered. That very same drive, I was going around a right turn in a residential area, I was in 3rd and after completing the turn I go to accelerate and I spin out. This car, a 220 hp 20 year old NA V6, was losing traction in THIRD GEAR going 15-20 mph.
Now for the inspiration for writing this review. I'm on my way to school, it had just finished raining, and I'm waiting in the back of a line at a red light. Turns green, line moves up and I go to turn right. I'm in second gear. I'm not going very fast to begin with because I'm in a line of cars coming out of a red light, but somehow after turning I accelerate and I start fishtailing again towards the right. I overcorrect too much to the left, and NOW they decide to grip...Right as I'm facing the side of a pickup. Bags go off, tons of pieces of my car go into the street. The truck just took a minor dent in the side. My car totaled, and its all because of these damn tires.
http://m.imgur.com/HcLjqGw
76%
Cooper Zeon 2XS 275-35-19-W Nissan 300ZX 20,000 miles March 9, 2016
Really pleased with these. Second set of the exact same tires I've had on this car and it's done a range of country lanes, motorways, track days, drag strips and town driving. I have them on the rears, with Falken 452s on the front and I've got to say, on the track, in the corners that matter, that Falkens give out before the Coopers. The car is 400bhp @ the hubs, so roughly 480 at the flywheel, very heavily modified and with equal amounts of torque to bhp, yet the rears very rarely break loose outside of 2nd gear in the dry (If I could find a tire that didn't in 1st or 2nd I'd be amazed), the Falkens on the fronts on the other hand, start to give me a wobbly feeling in hard corners at Silverstone and last year on Donnington. Comfort and noise is a little hard to tell in this car obviously, but I'd say they offer better comfort than the Falkens, which have a metal band in the sidewalls. Wear really doesn't seem too bad either, I've done probably 15k road miles, with the combination mentioned above and 5k track/strip miles with these on the rear of a rear wheel drive 480bhp car and the tires still look very good condition, with plenty of tread, plenty of grip, etc.
14%
Primewell PZ900 245-40-16- Nissan 300zx 5,000 miles February 23, 2016
This is the worst tire I've had the misfortune of experiencing. These are dangerous tires
Came on the car when I bought it, the grip was unbelievably terrible. Car was standard, and was caught out when the tires span up in 3rd gear @ 70mph. This happened on many occasions. Couldn't go full throttle in 1st or 2nd gear as grip was nonexistent. I couldn't enjoy the car at all.
In the wet the car was just flat out scary, extremely unpredictable.
There was 0 feedback, you could never tell what they would do.
Luckily the tires only lasted 5k miles before they were totally bald and needed replacing.
My brother who also had a 300zx got his with Pirelli p600s (aka the ditch finders) and he said these were even worse than they were, which is saying a lot.
They were replaced with thinner 235 Goodyear eagle f1 as2 and the difference was unbelievable. The car was amazing to drive, loads if feedback, wet and dry grip was great. Soon moving to 245/265 as2s.
There is no way I could recommend this tire to anyone at all.
79%
Nankang NS2 275-35-18-R Nissan 300ZX July 4, 2013
This is my fourth set of various sizes of these tires. They really look great and when warmed up in dry conditions they are almost impossible to break free and when they do it is easy to control the slide. BUT BEWARE in the wet! It is probably just the nature of a hard compound (long lasting) tire that when they break loose on wet roads they just GO! You will find yourself going backwards in a second or trying your best to chase the tail of the car to keep it behind you. And maybe because of the awesome dry road grip you will find yourself throwing it into a turn like usual and the next thing you know your frantically trying to keep the car from spinning. So my advice is to go a safe area and test the tires in the wet to know their limit before finding yourself backwards on a busy highway. One last note, the painted lines on the road are really like ice to the tires when wet so be beware. I have these on my 300ZX and BMW 850ci.
80%
Maxxis MA Z1 Victra 225-45-17- Nissan 300ZX May 31, 2013
can not fault them on my 3rd set for my 700hp 300zx RWD sports car will buy again and again
59%
Triangle TR968 225-45-17- Nissan 300zx 3,700 miles March 18, 2013
After reading the reviews i feel compelled to give a far more acurate review of the triangle tires ! Ill start by saying the tires are front 224 45 18s rear 265 35 18 on a 612atw hp nissan 300zx ! Previous to the triangles i have used bridgestone so3's and before them some pilot sport's ! The triangles added almost 3 seconds a lap at manfield race track yep 3 seconds so i would consider them a pretty good "cheap tire" not sure what all you other reviewers are on about but obviously the price is more of a consideration than actual performance ... oh and a have a gps max speed of 294kph and hey they still going strong

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