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Its hard to tell from just a photo but it looks like you ran to much air pressure in the rears, Try going down a pound or two and see if the wear evens out across the whole tread from side to side.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. But I always ran at oem spec of 32-33 psi though (which always eventually goes down to 29-31 psi, then needs refill again).
It also might be the alignment settings and too much toe-in (I'm on oem settings), or it's maybe just the way the tire shape or tire tread thickness is designed... maybe thinner in the middle, or maybe just a rounder profile/shoulders.
Regardless... I'm very happy with the 19k mile life.
Wanted to give a bit of an update. After 2 summers, about 10 trips to the dragon(each trip has about 6-15 passes) and 6300 miles the rears are reaching the last 20% of their lifespan.
Here are my notes:
-Good lifespan. I am hard on tires and this car sees about 4K a year and most of it is in the corners. With a more sane lifestyle, these tires would easily go 12-15k.
- Communicative and controllable. Even on quicker paced dragon runs the tires rarely ever did something I wasn’t expecting. When they did it was easily gathered up and left me looking like a Jedi master. Do be wary of concrete on and off ramps in the wet, it can get dicey.
- Grip level. These are a grippy tire for the UHP category. After leading a group at the 2019 Dragon Fall Run I had more than a few people asking how the car was so quick. The tires played a big part of that. You can carry a great deal of speed through a corner. What it won’t do is allow you to overload it. The limits on corner entry and on corner exit will remind you that it is a UHP tire. Push too hard on entry you will hear the front protest as it works to keep you on the correct trajectory. Do be careful on rolling on the power on exit as the rears will slide if you are too aggressive. Don’t worry though, all of this is manageable with common sense and good feel for the car. These tires are a bit of a tease as they can provide a ton of grip to roll through the corners but not enough to brake later and get on the throttle as early as it will lead you to believe.
- Conclusion. If you are on a budget of $500 for tires these are absolutely fantastic. You can toss these on your car and know you can hang with just about anyone who isn’t running a 200 rated tire. For daily use and backroad blasting they are a delight. I would seriously consider a set for my 2019 Civic Si. With all that said, I am considering going up to the Continental ExtremeContact tires for my next set. I want to maximize my dry grip without going to an 200 rated tire or spend Michelin money. I have a feeling that the extra money for the Continental tires won’t put me light years ahead of the Firestones.
Just put new rears on and I got 31,762 miles on my Firestone's. One thing about this run is we had over a dozen drives of over 1,000 miles and one at 8300 miles(coast to coast and back). Still, we had these tires at the lowest road(-238'), highest road(14,245') and I think more than 15 times over 10,000 feet so its not like all we did was run up and down I 5. I've had our S for 10 years and I have my alignment set for the best tire mileage. It took me a few trips to the alignment rack years ago to get even wear(side to side) on my rear tires but after some trial and error I got even wear even with all the different tire brands I've ran on our S.
For the money I like these Firestones and that is why I bought a second set. Good dry traction, very good in the rain and these(the rears) last me two years.
Thought I'd bring this back from the dead. Just an add on to the above post
I just got new tires up front on our '06 and I thought I'd update on how many miles I got on this set of F/S Firehawk Indy 500 front tires. Got 37,321 out of my 235/45-17 F/S Firehawk Indy 500 tires. Got 31700 miles out of the rear 245/45-17 Firehawk Indy 500 tires
I replaced the F/S with 235/45/17 Pilot Sport 4S up front.
Absolutely no complaints on how well these Firehawk Indy 500 tires perform.
just installed my Indy 500s Monday after upgrading to AP2v1 rims. So far 250kms in im very happy. Stock everything these tires are exactly what I wanted for strictly street driving. Rear tires take quite a bit to break loose.
If these last as long as everyone is posting I'm considering ordering another set next spring for my daily Si.
We always pay more for everything in Canada. Came to $650US installed.
Last edited by Monopoly; Jul 31, 2020 at 09:58 AM.
just installed my Indy 500s Monday after upgrading to AP2v1 rims. So far 250kms in im very happy. Stock everything these tires are exactly what I wanted for strictly street driving. Rear tires take quite a bit to break loose.
If these last as long as everyone is posting I'm considering ordering another set next spring for my daily Si.
We always pay more for everything in Canada. Came to $650US installed.
Great tires aren’t they?! I only have about 300km on mine but so far, they have exceeded all expectations. I paid $814.00 CAD all in.
So what PSI do folks run with these? My last tires, Dunlop Direzza ZII's ran better at slightly higher PSI - 34-36 due to the sidewall lacking the stiffness of the standard old S-02's. I installed these Firestones just yesterday (told the installer to go with 32psi), so not pushing them yet, but the slight squirreliness/wandering on rough roads is noticeable. I'll try 34psi once I get some miles on them, but there's a post above that spoke of using 30psi.
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