Got my winter setup yesterday

[hot_hatch]

I went to a local Discount Tire here and they actually had wheels and everything here in stock. I bought TPMS sensors off eBay for $45 dollars for all 4. Discount Tire was going to charge me $50 a piece for a generic sensors. Their computers have a setup that will tell you how close you are to stock height when changing rim size. The closest was a 195/60 R15. My salesman was a FoST driver that I know. I wanted to go with Blizzaks but he said as light as the FiST is that even cheaper tires would help keep it planted in the snow and ice. I got some GTR Champion Pro IcePro studdable tires for $60 a piece. The rims were just generic rims that I believe are meant for a regular Fiesta. The part number is 64254, 15 x 6 for $59 a piece. Life lifetime warranty and tire rotation, and no matter how much tread is left if it pops they'll replace it. So total I spent $624.40 after tax + $45 for the TPMS sensors.

 

[Kip2MyLou]

That's a great deal. I got 185/60 for mine, as tirerack had it as an alternative size and I heard taller narrow tires are better in the snow. So I opted out of the 195/55 set up they advertise on 15s.

But I would have been nice to have a machine to that all for me. Ha.

 

[hot_hatch]

Haha I know! I thought the computer setup they had that would calculate all that for you is so cool! I don't normally have to deal with snow around here, they get the streets clear pretty quickly. It's the ice that would do me in lol.

 

[Kip2MyLou]

And good to hear about the being able to buy cheaper tires. Makes me feel even better for only spending $70 on my General Artics.

I could have save more if I didn't go with an alloy wheel, but I had steelies last year and just wanted a change. They were on sale on TireRack as well so I though why the hell not.

 

[DHM1]

got the link for the tpms sensors?

 

[hot_hatch]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4X-Tire-Pre...iesta|Submodel:ST&hash=item27e96da995&vxp=mtr