TMQ

Are the tires on the 6MT SHAWD all season now? I recall that previously they were Michelin PS2 tires.

lji

Yes they are... Goodyears I believe...

JM2010 SH-AWD

They have always been all season tires, unless you ordered the 19" HPT option, then you got summer tires.

My understanding is that the standard SH-AWD tire is still 18" all seasons. Not sure if they're Michelin or Goodyear.

TMQ

From the Acura website, it seems that the 19" HPT option is no longer available for 2012?

VQPower37

^ o man ... i felt the 4th gen looked best on those wheels, maybe they will just have it as an add on option like they did for the 3g and aspec wheels

Treblig

The 19's are part of the Advance Package and come only with all seasons. Which by the way have a horrible rating on the TireRack website.

Edward'TLS

^^^^^ The "advance package" 19" tires are the Goodyear RS-A all-season. They are crappy tires indeed.

Treblig

Trying to get the dealer to buy them from me before taking delivery of the car.

crxb

The Michelin PS2 tires: upside: are great performance tires!

down side: expensive, short lived (esp if driven hard)

Edward'TLS

Hang on a little longer. The Michelin Pilot Super Sport is coming out in mid April 2011. It is the PS2 replacement, and is said to have both better dry and better wet traction as well as longer tread life.

Mr Marco

Agreed.
You can get whatever you want with your car. But you can't get a Pilot Super Sport because Michelin is not making them in 245/40/19 (yet). You may have to wait years for that size if no auto maker is offering a production vehicle that sports that tire.

Mr Marco

Looking over the available sizes for the Mich Pilot SS it appears that an appropriately sized 20" is also not available. This is depressing.

Edward'TLS

A search in Tirerack has come up with 43 sizes of the Pilot Super Sport, and with prices too.

245/40/19 will be available on estimated Apr 11, 2011. But unfortunately 245/35/20 won't be available.

TMQ

Easy solution - stay with the 18" size, which is available with the Micheline super sport. I guess one can ask the dealer to mount the new tires at delivery for a cost.

Treblig

Well, the dealer will buy them from me but at $40/tire. Good deal or not?

WalterSobchak

Good deal? No. These cost $200-250 per tire brand new. Whether they're anywhere near that is another matter entirely...

Your best & riskiest option: Craigslist. A quick google shows A LOT of people selling the Goodyear RS-A's in various sizes for ~$100/tire brand new. The market might be saturated.

Are you in a big metro area where you can attract a large audience for them? If you go down this road, make sure that the dealer (or tire company you use to put new rubbers on) gives you a receipt listing the mileage on the car when you swapped them out so that you can convince any prospective buyer that they only have xx miles on them.

Treblig

Thanks. I like the idea and agree with it but my issue would be time. I am supposed to be picking my car up on Saturday. If I bought the new tires now, I don't know how long I would have to sit on the RS-A's before I could recoup my money. I may wind up living with them for a while

Mr Marco

I stand corrected. Not sure why it is not on the Michelin list. ????

winstrolvtec

For only $200 they're worth sitting on, and that kind of money is doing you nothing towards a new set. Put it this way, it will cost you $200 (the dealer's offer) for an extra set of tires, since you are getting new ones regardless. You can try to sell them for much more after the fact and if you can't or don't, at least you still have them.

Three years goes by and you need new tires, you will have to pay for two sets, the first and then the second. Maybe at that time you want to sell and it would help to have fresh OEM tires or the lease is up and they want to hit you for low tires. You should keep them just for the $1k retail value alone.

Mr Marco

I discovered that I was looking at the Michelin UK site.

http://www.michelin.co.uk/tyres/mich...ot-super-sport

However the Michelin US site offers NO sizes.

http://www.michelinman.com/tire-sele...t/tire-details

Edward'TLS

For me, tire is the most important component of a car. No matter how good the suspension tuning is, or how advance the SH-AWD is, it all comes down to the four patches of rubber tread that are holding the car onto the roads.

I will skimp on everything else, except tires.

OEM tires are almost always crappy, due to cheaper cost and quieter/softer ride for the average car buyers.

For all the cars I have bought, as soon as I picked them up from the car dealerships, I drove the new cars straight to the tire shop to have the OEM tires replaced with the stickiest high performance tires available.

This time around, it is likely the Bridgestone RE-11 or the Michelin Super Sport.

Mr Marco

^Wise words

Treblig

What did/do you do with the OE tires?

Edward'TLS

Some of them I traded in at the tire shop, and others I sold them on Craigslist. Those OEM tires were almost like brand new.

crxb

I actually bought my replacement set of Mich PS2s at my Acura dealer - in the past I had priced their tires and they were high. Late last year while in for service just for the heck of it I asked for a quote and - they were very competitive - turns out the get their tires from tirerack.com - even came with free hazard insurance.