On the way to work today, I ran over nails?. Rear right tire has 2 large nailish things (about 10 penny size but without heads) The car handled very well with almost no air in the tire until I got off the freeway. This is my only car, so I'll need new rear tires tomorrow before I go to work so I cannot order tires, but need tires that are available in stock.

I've been very happy with the Potenza RE050's but I am not a real aggressive driver, so slightly lower grade tires would be OK as long as they are in stock someplace. I have 11,000 miles on the tires; the rears probably had another 7,000 + miles and the fronts are almost new.

I've been reading and Fuzion ZRi, KumhoMX, Avon Tech M500, YokoES100's all come up as possibilities. Any thoughts on were I could get these or something similar would be helpful.

 

I have ES100's on my car - aside from rapid tire wear on my first set (ended up being alignment, not tire problems), I'm very happy with them.

Very good grip, although not as good as S02
Great in the wet.

 

Toyo Proxes 4 are great all around tires. Also for the price, the Hankook RS-2 is great. I have those in stock.

 

No one in town has any of the mentioned tires in stock. Overnight delivery for the RE050's, so I'm borrowing a car until they come in.

 

Fuzion ZRi have em ...great tire , almost 15k on em ....love these tires

 

If you haven't gotten the tires give me a call if I can help. I would say the best handling set up is to have matched tires. Otherwise if you are looking for a good wearing tire try the Fuzion ZRI. They are made with the Bridgestone technology at 97.00 per tire for the rear.

 

btw ...i took that advice from Jim. All i can say is thanx

 

Whats the usual ratio for replacing rear tires, do most go thru 2 sets of rears
before replacing the fronts?