douggiestyle

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After nearing getting sideswiped by a semi this morning, my commute officially took a dump when I ran over two nails on the freeway. Threadlife of the remaining tires are 2/32 (Falken, same as the one that popped) and 5/32 for the Bridgestone rears. Is it time to replace the rears as well?

I went to Costco but they only had the stock Michelin MXM4s in stock at $205 a piece. $70 off for 4 but a that's quite a bit more than I'm willing to pay.

My local Firestone has the following two tires on promotion for buy 3 get 1 free:

Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport
Firestone Firehawk Wide Oval Indy 500

My car:
100% stock
I have a somewhat heavy foot but I don't stoplight race or any of that
I live in So Cal so I'm not at all concerned about wet/snow performance
Comfort and thread life are both important to me
I also hate when worn tires squeal


My questions:

Both are 215/50/17 compared to OEM 205/50/17. Will this make a difference?
I believe the XL loan rating is fine for our cars.
Does anyone has experience with either of these? The only reviews I see for the Firehawk are all on Corvette forums. I suppose that might be a good thing. Both are $150/each (or $450/4)

I really need to get this done this afternoon since I don't want to commute on my donut.

Thanks!

friesm2000

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with the rears being that close to being worn, i would just get a set of 4 and be done with it, for a while with the occasionally rotation (and best to have all 4 tires to match also, for best/most even handleing

and personally out of those selections you gave, i would go for those bridgestones handsdown, i don't like store branded tires, they are normally not very good compared to independent branded tires ,
but those michelins might not be too bad either idk
and i bet those falkens where some crappy tires too lol

and yeah considering that you don't like squeling tires, i would not cheap out on tires so much, since it does sound like you like to push the car occasionally

but also remember your life depends on only those 4 little contact patches created by the tires, so a quality tire does pay off in the end, especially avoiding a potential accident

and anyways as far as tire wear/warranty ratings, i would not go anything above 50k or so, they just get too hard, and you start sacrificing grip substantially for the name of tread life, i rather be able to stop and steer then to be replacing a car, cause it was not able to stop quickly enough

aznboi2424

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you have the wrong size tires for your car. if 205 is too skinny for you then go with 235/45/17 or else your speedo will be going too slow, like it is right now.

douggiestyle

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Thanks for suggestions fries. I couldn't wait around though so I went ahead and got the Bridgestone Potenza 760s.

I think I made out pretty good though, all four tires mounted and installed, with warranty and lifetime alignment for just under $700 before tax.

douggiestyle

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Thanks for the heads up, the manager said it wouldn't make a big difference so I took his word for it.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1437592

Seems like the speedo is only off by a little bit though, I can live with it

friesm2000

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not even 6 hours later lol, but yeah that $700 seems about right for an semi-performance tire, but yeah i paid like $900 for my potenza's 906as (i think that is the model lol) in 245/40/r18, and that was with a discount too, cause i know the people that sold me mine (so you are probably looking at easily $1000 for my tires)

douggiestyle

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spent 3 hours waiting at firestone but my commute is 30 miles each way, and LA freeways no place for dinky spares.

friesm2000

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why???


and you call your freeways bad, try here in colorado lol, we always have potholes, then they "patch" them in the summer, then they show right back up the following winter, so a never ending cycle (they build the roads here too thin, if you ask me)