Well I suffered the unfortunate fate of finding a bigass gash in my passenger rear tire today, big enough that safely plugging it would be nearly impossible, so I had to do some emergency tire shopping. It's Memorial Day, and most of the smaller places I would normally go are closed, and this is my only car so I need this fixed today.

I took it up to Sears, which is about the only thing open today that can put tires on quickly. I was planning on buying new tires anyway, my old set is Goodyear GT 2 tires, which really suck on light RWD cars, but it wasn't in my budget just yet, I was going to wait another month, and I had just spent nearly $700 on a new exhaust.

So I have NO money at all, I tell them I need a cheap tire, but something that will keep the light sports car on the road. I was pretty limited by what they had in stock, but pretty much it was between a set of Yokohamas and Sumitomos. The guy there recommended the Sumitomos, despite being cheaper he said it would grip better. A'ight.

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=09550012000

That's the tire, although I paid a little less than that. It did pain me knowing of tireracks pricing is cheaper for better tires, but I'm in a bind here. I got them to replace both my rear tires, so I will need front ones in the future.

After messing around a bit on the way home, the tires are better than the Goodyears by far, I'm undecided as to whether I want to put some more of the same tire on in the future after I get a little cash, or if I'm going to replace all four with a superior tire. What do you think?

*edit* Forgot to mention, it's a 91 NA. The car is a daily driver, it will likely never see a track, but I like having fun on the road.

 

Link no workie - it just takes you to a generic tire search form, not a specific tire page. Tell us the model name of the tire. For example "Sumitomo HTR 200" or something like that.

Sorry to jump on you, but one of my pet peeves for this area of the forum is posts where the author only specifies the brand of the tire as if that were enough information for us to make any judgements about it. You didn't quite do that since you provided the link (that unfortunately doesn't work), but you could have made it easier on us (which means much better responses for you) by simply typing the model name of the tire you got.

The fact is that pretty much all tire manufacturers make tires that range from absolute crap to damn good, and many perfectly good tires that just don't belong on a sports car. Again, this isn't really directed at you specifically, and I apologize for being harsh, but I am hoping other people will read this, too, and remember it before they submit another "Bridgestone or Yokohama; help me choose" thread.

The good thing about tires is that they don't last very long. It gives you plenty of opportunity to get rid of tires you don't like and try something else.

-Max

 

I apologize, they are SRIXON4, which seems to be the el cheapo version. Size is 205/60 R15.

I just got back from a little spirited driving, and all around the tires are much better than the ones they replaced, although damn near anything would be better.

I took some corners, not too fast and rough but a little bit, and I got it to squeal a little but I couldn't get the rear end to break loose on me at all, although I felt that the car wanted to.

I also did a clutch drop at 5k rpms (not something I do on a regular basis, but I wanted to see what would happen) and the car spun for a second and then took off like a bat out of hell. Then a cop pulled out in front of me... heh whoops.