Originally Posted By: michaelluscher
Wow...
People seem most impressed with the snow performance of RT43s
Now, one of my vehicles is gonna need tires, and I doubt any tire shop will let me get away with deviating from factory V speed rating down to H
Anyone have these in a V speed rating?
215/55/17 for those who are curious
Instead of taking the car in, dismount the wheels and bring THEM to the shop. What they object to is NOT mounting and balancing the tires but putting them on a car "requiring" V rated tires. I went through this with the droids at Sam's club when I UPGRADED tow four cylinder Camry to the wheel and tire size on the six cylinder version. The manager, formerly of women's clothing I suspect, lacked the brains to understand that the cars were getting MORE tire, and an H rather than T speed rating which was MORE capacity than they left the factory with. "Nope" he kept babbling," Camrys with THAT tire size (205 65 15) are 'required' to have V rated tires. But.....they would mount and balance them as long as the receipt said "tires mounted on customer supplied wheels and returned". I'm about to upgrade my new (to me) 08 V6 Camry to 17 inch alloys and I suspect I'll go through this again. Yes the car is fast, but we're lucky to ever go half as fast as a V is rated for around here. An H will be just fine and last longer.