tire shopping has me frusterated
You'd think an acura integra would be a common enough car for them to make a cheap set of tires for, but apparently the size of 195/55/15 only has high performance tires made for it. The last set of tires i bought for the thing only lasted 20k miles, and while granted i dont baby the car, i dont race it everywhere either. So this time, the cheapest tires i've found are 65 each(this is after calling 15 plus places, and these had to be shipped in), and are the dunlop SP FM901's, or something to that effect. However, the treadwear rating is suppsoed to only be something like 200, so i'll probably need new tires again in 15-20k. Even with a ****ty alignment my benz made its toyo's last 20 k, and thats with the wheel pulling crazy hard! Ahh this has me irritated, i thought i bought an economy car!!! The real kicker of it is, the tires that fit the car waaaaay outperform the car, there is no need for it to have that sticky of rubber on it, i'd be happy with a decent set of good all season tires, and here i am stuck with high performance summer tires. Anyone else had a car like this that the tire requirements way outperform the intent of the vehicle??? I love the way the 15" gs-r rims look on it, but i'm about to trade for a set of 14" steelies just to get cheaper/longer lasting tires!
Ryan
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83 300SD.......sold
96 integra SE....sold
99 a4 quattro....sold
2001 IS300.......sold
2002 330i.........current.
2004 highlander limited....current.
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