[DeTomaso] Tire advice

[Boyd Casey]

I have to agree with Julian. All four tires should match, It is not a
question of cosmetics but of safety. Even though the pirellis are expensive
you can't put a price on safety. So I say go with the P0's
Boyd


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com
> wrote:

>  The rear frame was rusted out, causing the rears to wear out
> prematurely, so that's why the rears are newer.
>
> Chris
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>  ------------------------------
> From: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
> Sent: 2/14/2014 7:34 AM
> To: Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com>; michael at michaelshortt.com
> Cc: De Tomaso List <detomaso at poca.com>
> Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Tire advice
>
>  The first question is why are you wearing out fronts before rears,
> assuming that by proposing to buy only fronts you have significant tread
> left on the rears? An alignment is probably in order before you do anything
> or you'll be throwing good money after bad.
>
> Then a) your current Toyos are already 6 years old, so irrespective you
> should be replacing all 4 tires b) why replace them with old tires, there
> are real world stories of NOS tires just delaminating and falling apart.
>
> When it comes to anything considered a critical safety element, do it
> right........ buy 4 Pirelli's!
>
> Julian
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: chrisvkimball at msn.com
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:22:54 -0800
> To: michael at michaelshortt.com
> CC: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tire advice
>
> The rears are in pretty good shape, so that puts one vote for the Toyos.
>
>  When all four tires wear out next time, my sons will be out of college,
> so I'll just buy a whole set of the Pirelli P-zeros.  They are rated to
> almost 200 mph.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Chris
>
>
>
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:24 AM, "michael at michaelshortt.com" <
> michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:
>
>   How much life is left in the rears?  Ideally, all 4 would expire at the
> same time on the next cycle.
> Are you planning to upgrade to 17", if you  continue to drive as you
> hypothetically do, that's going to be your only option unless somebody
> (Coker) reissues a Z rated 15" series.
> If my rears where newish I would go Pzero, if my rears were 60% or less,
> the Toyos.
>
> Michael Shortt
> On Feb 14, 2014 2:58 AM, "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> I know I'll get different opinions on this question, so I've decided I
> will add up the answers I get within in the first 24 hours, and go with the
> majority...!
>
> It turns out I need new, front tires.  I don't race my car, but I drive it
> a lot (the current Toyo Proxes were new in 2008), and sometimes, on a long
> trip, I might hypothetically drive at a hypothetically high speed for a
> time.
>
> Here are my two choices--tell me what you think is the best.
>
> 1) The Les Schwab company discontinued the Proxes 225 50 15 which I have
> now, but they still have 7 left in the Country.  They are probably 4 or 5
> years old, but are new, and have been stored inside in a cool, dry area.
>  They will match the Toyos on the rear of the car and cost less than $400
> for both including mounting and tax.  They are only rated to 149 mph.
>
> 2) Pirelli P-0 tires are also available in the correct size.  They are
> rated to 200 mph, will be newly-produced, but won't match what I have on
> the back, and will cost over $800.00.
>
> Which should I buy, Toyo or Pirelli?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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