First, please, no flat out tire snob mocking for this thread, so let's get this out of the way first: "All seasons are NO seasons"... I know, but where I live it's wet but mild with only a few inches total of snow a winter and I don't track this other than drag racing just for fun occasionally. I also have no intentions of pushng my car to the very, very limits, it's still a fun car being driven at 80%.. "Tires are the one thing keeping your car on the road, why go cheap?" Yes, I know, but with today's world economy tires are being made with quality in Thailand now and it's just a simple fact that sometimes things are cheap only because they need to try to get market share by word of mouth advertising, yada, yada, there are definitely exceptions to the rule of "you get what you pay for" these days... Most importantly, this is an experiment, I'm perfectly prepared to bite the bullet and buy some more expensive ones if these are really that terrible.
So I had already decided I wanted 215/40/17 all seasons to use with the black factory wheels for now. I had done my research and wanted something "stickier". As some of you know from another thread of mine, I was considering some 4 year old new stock on some Riken Raptor A/S, but the price went up to more than these and so I decided to go with what was hopefully some fresh stock on these cheapies These are 300tw with AA traction and are SUPER cheap, $55 each. Only downside I could see as far as specs is that appears to have only 8/32 of starting tread. And YES, hilarious name, PERFECT to go on a Fiesta, LOL...
So I ordered through Simple Tire eBay and they came the NEXT DAY! Just a crazy good deal at $220 a set of 4! https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-New-Cosmo-Muchomacho-P215-40r17-Tires-2154017-215-40-17/382651861113
Key thing to remember here, I am only expecting to get 20k out of these, we'll see how they actually perform
Anyway, they definitely pass the visual and feel inspection, they genuinely feel like great quality. Video review from a BMW guy here:
View: https://youtu.be/IHpsVvFbffE
Guy goes on to say he's shocked at how quiet they are with excellent wet performance and grip. His 2k update in the comments has him praising them more and more...
Rando internet photo I found, mine look exactly the same... Anyway, they are getting installed tomorrow and sorry I won't be able to quite do an apples to apples comparison as I'm also having my Eibach springs installed at the same time. But if anything, this will (literally) put even more pressure on the tires to perform, so I'll update this post with a review under the pic after I try them tomorrow!
So I had already decided I wanted 215/40/17 all seasons to use with the black factory wheels for now. I had done my research and wanted something "stickier". As some of you know from another thread of mine, I was considering some 4 year old new stock on some Riken Raptor A/S, but the price went up to more than these and so I decided to go with what was hopefully some fresh stock on these cheapies These are 300tw with AA traction and are SUPER cheap, $55 each. Only downside I could see as far as specs is that appears to have only 8/32 of starting tread. And YES, hilarious name, PERFECT to go on a Fiesta, LOL...
So I ordered through Simple Tire eBay and they came the NEXT DAY! Just a crazy good deal at $220 a set of 4! https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-New-Cosmo-Muchomacho-P215-40r17-Tires-2154017-215-40-17/382651861113
Key thing to remember here, I am only expecting to get 20k out of these, we'll see how they actually perform
Anyway, they definitely pass the visual and feel inspection, they genuinely feel like great quality. Video review from a BMW guy here:
Guy goes on to say he's shocked at how quiet they are with excellent wet performance and grip. His 2k update in the comments has him praising them more and more...
Rando internet photo I found, mine look exactly the same... Anyway, they are getting installed tomorrow and sorry I won't be able to quite do an apples to apples comparison as I'm also having my Eibach springs installed at the same time. But if anything, this will (literally) put even more pressure on the tires to perform, so I'll update this post with a review under the pic after I try them tomorrow!