secretariata wrote: I'll second Duke's recommendation on the Continental DWS's...
I checked out reviews at Tire Rack and the Conti DWS got the highest rating. And the shop that I take my car to carries Contis...
Now, what first? Everything needs replacement at the same time. Current tires have just enough tread left to pass tech at the local club's autocross; clutch is slipping; at least one front rotor is warped and the shop says the rear rotors won't pass inspection next time around...
Found out tonight that my new wheels won't ship for 6-8 weeks, so we can keep this discussion going for a while...
Currently, I have the Continental DW as my #1 and the DWS at #2...I doubt either is a "bad" choice 
danl318 wrote:secretariata wrote: I'll second Duke's recommendation on the Continental DWS's...I checked out reviews at Tire Rack and the Conti DWS got the highest rating. And the shop that I take my car to carries Contis... Now, what first? Everything needs replacement at the same time. Current tires have just enough tread left to pass tech at the local club's autocross; clutch is slipping; at least one front rotor is warped and the shop says the rear rotors won't pass inspection next time around...
doubt that a rotor is warped … unless new and the QA was shoddy from the manufacture … more likely to be uneven pad deposit on the rotor … if there is enough rotor to turn, that will get rid of all the pad deposit, (should do both of them) and then bed the pads in well … shouldn't have any shudder after that … I've had to bed twice with street pads in the past … they seem harder to get correct than race pads for some reason
here's a good read about "wrapped" rotors from stop tech
http://www.stoptech.com/technical-support/technical-white-papers/-warped-brake-disc-and-other-myths
In reply to wbjones:
A fool and his money are soon parted. A full order OF EBC Ultimax rotors and Greenstuff pads, front and rear, should arrive on my doorstep by Friday. And all the shops I've used, past & present, are reluctant to turn rotors.
In reply to danl318: It's probably more profitable for them to replace rotors than turn rotors.
danl318 wrote: In reply to wbjones: A fool and his money are soon parted. A full order OF EBC Ultimax rotors and Greenstuff pads, front and rear, should arrive on my doorstep by Friday. And all the shops I've used, past & present, are reluctant to turn rotors.
I've got 2 places here that will … one an old school shop … the owner has been wrenching on cars since the late '50's … and the other is the local O'Reilly's
on my old Impreza I replaced the front pads and then tried to bed them like I do for my TT/autoX car … they seemed fine for a couple of days ..then they started the pulsing that most folk call warped … so I went to my back road and really gave them hell … bedded until I literally had zero brakes … parked and got away from the stench and let them cool a tiny bit, then drove home with as near as I could zero brake use (there really wasn't much there to use 
) and parked it … the next day I flushed the fluid and never had another problem with them
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