Tire Wear Question

[ontarian_frog]

I have Wal-Mart cheapies (Kingstar) and let me tell you that for 340$ tax-in and installed, nothing beats them. With a thread wear of 620, I can't complain. Good in water and wet roads, a little noisy though on old roads.

[petrified.rabbit]

620 tread wear? are they made out of old hockey pucks?? i usually go around 300 in tread wear

my last set of tires (sunny) were $222 shipped, $50 mount and balance = $272
the set before that was nexen (rears still have 8/32s, no alignment killed the front) were about $300 installed..
(still lasted >5 k withough the alignment better than oem)..
the falken 502s before that were @ $350 installed, had them for 10k miles, and sold them with 6-7/32s on them (went to a different rim size)

[zaklax13]

i hate people busting on the aveo, i love mine. its the best deal for the money, but if you think your getting top-of-the-line engineering for $10k new your dumb. awesome to mod, even with lack of aftermarket support. its half the fun to fabricate/hunt for/try-to-make-fit with parts. besides its cool to have a modded car that everyone else hasnt already done

[Pontiac1976]

You know with all said about tires no one said anything about PSI in the tire. The stock 14" 31 PSI all around but I have found that 32 PSI in the Frt. 31 PSI in the Rear.
I have a little wear on mine. But I push my car a lot on the corners most of the wear in the Frt. in the last 4 months are because the front dropped 3 Psi. I think my ball joint are starting to wear a bit. I Expect there to be a little wear after a 29 months 64K/M trip to work 5days + other job weekend girl friend trips. As of this Fri I have 47217 K/M Car, on the Factory Tires I have 36385 K/M.
I might even need a front end alignment by now too.

Pontiac Wave 2008 Hatchback

[ontarian_frog]

620 tread wear? are they made out of old hockey pucks?? i usually go around 300 in tread wear

Yeah I miss typed... 520 threadwear traction A temp A....

I run 37psi in the front and 34 in the rear.

[petrified.rabbit]

520 still seems really high to me, do you do a lot of highway driving and such?

i was running 36-38 psi in my 15s. with the lower profile/reinforced sidewall, i need that much pressure to get the tread flat in the middle. it handles better that way. On my stock sizes 14 snow tires i am running 34 right now, but only because they were a little feathered when i took the off last year, and i ran 32 in them then.

(yes i have my snows on i had a blow out in my summer tires)

[ontarian_frog]

520 still seems really high to me, do you do a lot of highway driving and such?

(yes i have my snows on i had a blow out in my summer tires)

Yeah I used to do a lot of highway driving. Not so much nowadays. I took them in the back roads yesterday, they handled a lot better than I thought they would.

Don't feel bad about having your snow shoes on, my dealer's been calling me for weeks (called me twice) now to put them on.

[Nurseman27]

185/55/15 is what im looking for if you all could do me a huge favor and send Michelin a email letting them know they need to make tires for this car in that size maybe we could all benefit from it Contact Us: Michelin Tires I know there is lots of people whom say there over priced but there well worth it Goodyear Tires USA we also need to do this for good year thank you all in advance for your help

[petrified.rabbit]

you'd be better off in a 195/50r15... honestly.

and to me michelin, goodyear and firestone are like the "big 3" of tires. big 3 in reference to the old philosophy of gm, ford and chrysler.. same "quality" as lesser known brands for 2-3 times the price.

[Pontiac1976]

I have to agree that 195/50/15 would be alot eaiser to get alot more brands then 185/55/15. The 195/50/15 size would be really close to stock 185/60/15.