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post Dec 24, 2009 - 12:06 AM
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Looking at a couple different tires for my stock GT rims. 205/55/15's.

I need something that is OK in the snow (I know an all season can't be GREAT in the snow), and I need it to be pretty darn good in the rain. That's pretty much my only requirements. These are the tires I've looked at / are available to me. But I will try to find any suggestions that you guys put out there.

Toyo Proxes 4
Kumho Ecsta ASX

I've gotta get these tires next weekend, so let me know what your experiences were. Thanks!
post Dec 24, 2009 - 12:13 AM
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QUOTE (Ruroniarc @ Dec 24, 2009 - 12:06 AM) *
Looking at a couple different tires for my stock GT rims. 205/55/15's.

I need something that is OK in the snow (I know an all season can't be GREAT in the snow), and I need it to be pretty darn good in the rain. That's pretty much my only requirements. These are the tires I've looked at / are available to me. But I will try to find any suggestions that you guys put out there.

Toyo Proxes 4
Kumho Ecsta ASX

I've gotta get these tires next weekend, so let me know what your experiences were. Thanks!


don't think proxes 4's are good in the snow... go to tirerack.com. check out michelin! think about running summer tires and winter tires too!


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post Dec 24, 2009 - 1:49 AM
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GeoStar G505 tires are good. They are made by Nexen
post Dec 24, 2009 - 2:51 AM
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proxey 4's are **** ABSOLULTE GARBAGE. they rn't even a good summer tire, weak sidewalls...
post Dec 24, 2009 - 9:02 AM
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Oh yeah, another thing. My price range is UNDER 125-30 range. And I can only afford an all season tire, can't afford two sets. =\
post Dec 30, 2009 - 2:57 PM
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I know that 205/55/15's will fit on the stock GT rims, but what other sizes will fit? Does anyone know / have tried to put different size tires on the stock GT rims?
post Jan 1, 2010 - 2:39 PM
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QUOTE (Ruroniarc @ Dec 30, 2009 - 3:57 PM) *
I know that 205/55/15's will fit on the stock GT rims, but what other sizes will fit? Does anyone know / have tried to put different size tires on the stock GT rims?


195/55/15, 195/50/15, 205/50/15, 215/45/15, 215/50/15, you can stretch other tires but not recommended
post Jan 5, 2010 - 11:18 PM
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I had the Kumho ASX's on my Maxima, and they were AWFUL. They got good traction, but they suffered a lot of other issues. They wore unevenly, were noisy, one developed a bad bulge and was VERY NOISY and gave a lot of tire-thumping. Put on a new set of Firestones that were on special and they've been fine.

The cheapest all-season I've seen that seems worth a darn are the Yokohama AVIDs. Don't know about the Nitto's in the same price range. I'd say for $10 a tire it's worth the upgrade to a better tire; the tires will last longer and give better performance.


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post Jan 6, 2010 - 12:18 AM
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i was about to get kumho ASX but i cheaped out and decided to go for nexen n5000. it wasnt bad at all. for me, it was decent and doesnt get worn easily compared to my 2 sets of falkens.


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post Jan 6, 2010 - 12:23 AM
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Kuhmo KU36's, I don't know how much they are in america but im fairly sure you have them, they are cheap here, get about 30-40 000km out of them and its almost impossible to screach them haha.
post Jan 6, 2010 - 1:15 AM
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This is a tough call, because so far from what I've learned, there aren't any tires that are great in the snow AND on dry pavement. You're gonna have to pick one or the other as far as it's strengths go. Where I live it rains ALL THE TIME from early November until about May. Not much snow here, but enough to wish at least 2 or 3 times a winter I had better tires, so when I got a great opportunity to get winter tires for basically free, I took it.

Before 2 weeks ago I was running Yokohama S. Drives year round. They're quite acceptable in the rain, great on dry pavement, and as far as all seasons go, they were only *okay* in the snow. Again, that's based on the fact that it doesn't snow here much. Last winter we got NAILED though, and I gotta say - they SUCKED and it's amazing I survived some of the drives in the 19" of snow we got last xmas. Thank god for cables (and I'm from the east coast originally - I KNOW how to drive in the snow!)

When I had my 4Runner, I had a set of Toyo somethings on it, they were all-season and did great in the snow, never used 4WD on it. I'd recommend checking them out - I know they were for a 4Runner, but they were NOT cheap AT ALL. The extra expense was worth it though, well worth it.

My winter tires are Hankook iPikes, I forget what size they are since they were free-ish to me, already mounted and balanced, but they're on stock Celica rims (alloys or whatever, not the steelies) so w/e the stock size is of those, that's what I've got. They've done GREAT in the snow and rain, I've been extremely happy with them. I've also been relatively happy with them on dry pavement, but then I have my S. Drives to compare them to (225/45/17) so I'm kind of spoiled now I guess laugh.gif I don't know how they'd perform on hot pavement though, so take that into consideration.

Whatever all-season you decide to go with, I would VERY HIGHLY recommend you have them siped. Siping is worth the small amount of extra $ to have it doen, and it makes a HUGE difference in wet and snow-weather performance. (that's part of what makes snow tires what they are, is heavy siping from the factory)

good luck and sorry for the novel tongue.gif


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post Jan 9, 2010 - 7:43 PM
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Thanks for all your replies, I think I'm gonna grab these tires. Continental ContiExtremeContact Tires. What do you think?

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?ti...iExtremeContact

Anyone else have these?
post Jan 9, 2010 - 9:58 PM
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QUOTE (Ruroniarc @ Jan 9, 2010 - 7:43 PM) *
Thanks for all your replies, I think I'm gonna grab these tires. Continental ContiExtremeContact Tires. What do you think?

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?ti...iExtremeContact

Anyone else have these?


seem to be good tires. good tread wear and speed rating...!


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post Jan 12, 2010 - 4:09 PM
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QUOTE (Ruroniarc @ Jan 9, 2010 - 6:43 PM) *
Thanks for all your replies, I think I'm gonna grab these tires. Continental ContiExtremeContact Tires. What do you think?

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?ti...iExtremeContact

Anyone else have these?


Continentals are good tires. I see a lot of BMW's and other luxury/performance cars with them.


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post Jan 13, 2010 - 11:28 PM
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Yeah, I just got these tires, on stock GT rims. I've only driven them for about 200 miles so far, but I have to say they are really nice tires. They grip WAY more than my old tires. I can't even squeal my tires at all (Though, my clutch is going too =P ). But overall I would reccomend these tires at this point, they're real nice. And reasonable too, I only paid about $111 per tire. Total price was like 550 with mounting and balancing and everything from TownFair.

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