well driving home from the st.louis astros game yesterday i hit a piece of metal and blew the tire out so im wanting to get a new set of 4 tires that are a little better then the peralli pzeros that come stock i have called dobbs and walmart .. walmart cant get stock tire size of 215/45/18 but they can get 215/40/18..

dobbs can get the pzeros in for 214.50 installed

walmarts tire for the 215/40/18 is bfgoodwrench g force t/a for 165 a tire

im wanting a better tire for my cobalt that is stock peformance no addons to power

later on im wanting to do stg 2

so i was thinking about getting new tires these have 22000 miles + and there wear pattern sucks *****

any ideas on tires and sizes that will not throw off the ODO will be appreciated

im getting these mom just ordered them i think they will be ok

215 / 40 / r18

 

try something from the falken lineup,alot of members have their tires,so did I best tire i ever rode on.www.falkentire.com

 

There have been a few tire threads lately with lots of good opinions.

I jumped in here cause you should be getting 225/40-18 because they are closer to stock size. The 225/40 are about 1/2" shorter than stock, and a little wider. The 215/40 will be almost 7/8 shorter and the same width as stock.
The 215/40 will make your speedometer around 3% off, not a big deal.

 

215-40-18 will throw you ODO quite a bit. 235-40-18 is pretty near the same on the ODO, but some are hving probs with rubbing, some no. I would recommend 225-40-18 as far as tire size. Good tires are BFG KDW, Falken 615 or 452, toyo T1R. High end are the Michelin Pilot sport and Goodyear GSD1. I got the BFG KDW and its a great tire, and looks awesome! Good luck with ure tires!!

nah man, 215 40 will throw the ODO like 7% or more. I get like 3% with the 225.


Dont go 215 40 IMO..... no no no

 

If you do the math the 215/40 is about 3.4% smaller. 225/40 is about 2% smaller.
That is not always accurate because no tire is exactly the size it is marked, and different companies vary even with the same size.

 

well as far as i know the tires are not ordered i have a used stock tire on there now got it for 25 dollars

im going to search some more and find out from some tire places around here one that deals with alot of +size and all so im going to find out from there within the next few days

but i know i want something better then these damn pzero perellies


the ones in the pics are hankook sport k 104's

they look pretty good but im still looking into the others

but i got to find out about the sizes

 

BFGs KDWs ftw great tires

 

BFG KDW II!!!

sickest tread pattern

 

I just orderd my Falken FK 452's. 225-45-18. tread pattern is pretty cool. Im just excited to get these stock tires off.

 

I have been running Falken ZE-512's wonderful in bad weather ie: snow,rain, ice whatever! Plus they grip just as good as the Pirellis did!

 

nitto neo-gens ftw. also toyo proxies are good but VERY pricey. Falkens make a nice tire as does hankook.

 

Falken Ftmfw!