When I first posted this back in August I said I post a follow up. Well this is
it. MY wife absolutely loves the Firestone Firehawk SH30 tires. I've driven the
car too and have to say she is right. These are *great* tires for the money. In
fact they are just plain great tires. I'd gladly pay twice what I paid for them.
They handle wet roads better than any tire I've ever driven and their dry
performance, while not on a par with some of the no tread DOT legal race tires,
is still outstanding. For most folks this is a great all around tire. We haven't
driven them in the snow yet (no snow around here) but reports of their snow
capabilities are quite good. They absolutely transformed the ride *and* handling
of our old Volvo.
Marc Sayer wrote:
>
> This week my wife had a tire fail on her Volvo. We had been running 205-65-14
> tires on the stock 5.5x14 steel wheels. They were a huge improvement over the
> 185-14s the car first came with but they were still not as high performance a
> tire as either of us would have liked. She likes the look of the stock steel
> wheels with the center caps and trim rings, what can I say, and that limits
>our
> selection of tires. She also drives pretty hard (not your typical Volvo
>driver)
> so we really needed some high performance tires. But we live in Oregon where
>it
> is often raining, so the tires had to work well in the wet too. After a bunch
>of
> research we decided on the Firestone (yes I know, but there's more to that
>story
> than meets the eye...) Firehawk SH30. We wanted a 205-60-14 because of the rim
> limitations, and 14" tires in those sizes are not all that common. Most
>places,
> including America's Tire/Discount Tire had almost no selection, and what they
> had was crap. In that size the Firehawk was by far the best tire for our
> purposes, but it was hard to find. I called around locally and no one could
>get
> me the tire for at least 4-5 days and the best prices I got were high 70s to
>low
> 80s. Tirerack had them in stock at $60 and they delivered them by Fed Ex 2 day
> air for $28 for all four tires. I had problems with their website but that may
> have been because of the security settings on my computer. So I called then
> instead and they got me taken care of right away, and the tires arrived at my
> door two days later. Anyway, for my money Tirerack did good and I just wanted
>to
> pass that along. :-)
>
> BTW, I'll let folks know what I think of the tires after a few months and some
> serious Oregon rain, but from all accounts they are supposed to be great
> high-performance all-weather tires. They are even supposed to do fairly well
>in
> the snow. The only thing good I can say about shopping for 14" tires is they
> sure are a lot less spendy than the 16" tires I buy for my 280ZXT.
>
>
> --
> Marc Sayer
> 82 280ZXT
> 71 510 2.5 Trans Am vintage racer
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Marc Sayer
82 280ZXT
71 510 2.5 Trans Am vintage racer
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