Replacing one rear tire
 

I don't know if this exact question has been asked before, but:

My rr tire was low on pressure and driving to work it became squirrely then lost it all. I managed to get off to the side of Route 1, before it got too warm. I suspect I had run a short time(a hundred yards or so at low speed) with the rim on the tire.

I suspect I need a new tire, and the tires have 8000 miles on them.

Can I get ONE new one for the rear or is there a risk of problems? I will check the inside and see if there are any bubbles and possibly attempt an inside patch first. BTW, this may be moot if I cannot find an OEM SO2, but it seems to be a good question anyway.

This may put me into a loop of replacing one tire every other time, I will have to sort out this dilemma.

I am inclined to get both done and keep the second as a spare, however anyone have an opinion?

You cannot just get one tire. You need to replace BOTH tires. You can get OE tires from The Tire Rack. $156 a piece I think.

Look closely at the wear bars. The average lifetime for the rears seems to be 8,000-12,000 miles. Some folks get more time. The S02's are soft and the factory dialed in a lot of toe-in on the rears to improve handling.

One more note, the OEM S02's are tuned for the S2000 and are much stickier than the off the shelf S02's.

That was exactly the same that happened to me last week, EXACTLY, the perfect picture, so because i live in EL Salvador we don't have Bridgestone Potenza S-02 is Stock, because it's too expensive (shit) so i looked for the Toyo Proxes, BUT they don't have the size 225/50/16 so (shit again), i looked a lot and didn't found anything alike so because i really really need the tire i have to buy THIS PIECE OF CRAP

Falken Ziex ZE 502 Treadwear 300

As you see the treadwear is 300 against 140 of brisgestone potenza, i felt the car very odd and different,

1- the sreeching sound when you accelerate from 0
2- feels hard and low to accelerate
3- i don't like it, simple

I'm so sad

Well, i replace only the rr tire, and when i ride, the cars goes to the left when accel, because the right tire is new and it's a little bit high than the left one (because the left one Bridgeston Potenza has 8,500 miles), so i bought the other one and it's ok now, so you have to get both.

Always replace in a set (or pairs as a minimum).

I blew a left rear tire last year and kept my RR tire with around 7000 miles of commute driving on it. ( was getting 12-13k miles per rear set) If you need a RR OEM S-02 that has at least 3k miles left on it, PM me.

SAME EXACT PROBLEM HERE however it was my RL tire.. i had just one replaced :(. i had approx 3 thousand miles on all four before change. (3k miles with lots of launching :( )... officer take me away

The reason that you want to replace both rear tires is to keep the differential happy.

If the rear tires are not the same size then the inside gears of the differential must spin, which they are designed to do around corners but not while going straight.

My guess is that some of the diff failures (noise) have been from mis-matched tires, and or spinning the tires on split mu surfaces and making the diff to things that it does not like.

HTH.

Woodwork

I pinched the sidewall on my right rear tire at 2500 miles and figured I could just replace it with a new one, since there wasn't that much tread wear yet. Even though the wear looked even on the tires, I could always tell that they weren't an exact match. When switching between accelerating and decelerating (on and off of the gas) it would pull a bit to one side, then pull a bit to the other. I finally finished off that set and got new tires. They are evenly matched and the car goes absolutely straight all the time.

I actually, replaced just one rear tire with my second set, but they only had 300 miles on them, so the wear was insignificant. I ran over a bolt or something on the freeway and it was flat before I could pull off, destroying the sidewall. :mad:

The bottom line: always replace both rear tires when either needs replacing.
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No. They just have less wet weather traction as they have a smaller rain channel. Ultimate friction is about the same. The only thing different with the Honda tires is that it is W rated, not Z rated.

I am running one new rear S02 (non Honda) in the rear while the other tires have around 4000 miles on them. No adverse effects. No whine, no pulling, no traction issues, nothing. I have done similar things with other RWD cars in the past, never had a problem.

You don't have to buy two at a time -- the only people who inisist you do are generally tire sales people -- but as someone above mentioned 8k can be pushing it for the S02's -- you may want to invest in two or even four.