gadgeTT

Hi all,

The OEM P6000 tires on my 2001TTQC are on their last legs, so to speak. The car has 20k miles on it, but less than 15k of that is on the P6000's as I drive with Blizzaks in the winter. I want to replace the '01 with either an '04 or wait for an '05, but given that my 4-year lease doesn't expire until 10/05, I probably should wait - at least until 10/04ish.

I read a lot in these forums about tire wear and how AoA charges back to the driver if the tires have less than a given amount of tread left. My tires are just about borderline, so I'm probably best off getting a new set of summer tires now and having a safe ride until I trade in the car. I can even save the current set of tires and put them back on to turn it in rather than giving the dealer my new tires.

so.... what tires to get that won't break the bank but also will provide comparable performance (or better) to the OEM P6000's?

My local Firestone dealer is offering me the new Bridgestone Fuzion ZRi's (http://www.mastercare-usa.com/tires/catalog/fuzion-zri.jsp) for $102 each - sounds like a good deal, but I don't know for sure. Anyone out there have experience with them? I did a search of the forum and there's no mention of them.

If I get new tires now and put the current (not totally dead yet) ones in storage, then I can retain the new ones for use on the new '04 or '05TT when I get it. I just hate to blow $500 (at least) now, given how few miles are on the P6000's, but that seems to be average for others on the forum.

Thanks in advance for any help/advise.

YosemyTT

I do know that a dealer WILL charge you for tires if you are at or below the wear indicator. Your tires have to be legal at lease turn in. If you replace and store the old tires you give yourself an option of putting them back on for lease turn in but figure $80-100 to pay for tires to be swapped. If you're doing it twice you're looking at closer to $200. For the cost, time and risk (wheel damage is quite common) I would not bother with it, especially because you will have around ~50% tread left on the new ones when you take them off and you'll have to put them on your new car and pay again to have them taken off when they're dead. So this amounts to 4 times and that is equal to the cost of a new set of tires. I would get new tires, leave them on the car and not mess with all this since I would be getting new tires on a new car when I take my current car back. All this is just my opinion, obviously.

TTschwing

That's so damn logical it's Brilliant!!...:-)

YosemyTT

I've been told I'm too logical many times (mostly by my wife, obviously) but I find that accusation lacking in logic :-)

PS I saw your brake write-up. Nice looking stuff. I have a line on a set of P-car brakes for around $500 (fronts, new pads, installed on my stock rotors). I'm getting very tempted!

TTschwing

of anyone making brackets to use stock rotors....Custom set-up? Sounds good!

YosemyTT

local tech has them on his stage 4 GTI and wants to sell. I drove the car the other day and it was very, very fast to speed up and slow down. He has the brakes on 225 front rotors right now. We're going to do a test fit with my wheels to check for clearance. I'll take a couple of pics and show you :-)

dlynch1

We had p6000's on another make. Frankly they weren't impressive. (They were the "performance?" version, not the all season.)

You have a great car; maybe you'll enjoy it more if you change the tires out.

Dave
Mississauga