Since this forum is just a wealth of information if anyone knows about tires help me out, I've got to go in like 2 hours from now and I don't know what I want.
What's the difference between touring tires and performance tires?
Car is a 99 Poncho Grand Prix GTP I wouldn't really call it a performance car, and I don't drive it like it is. It's pretty mushy in the corners, so I don't want to make that too much worse. It's got Goodyear Eagles on it now, they are way noisy and terrible on wet surfaces.
Good wet traction is probably what is most important to me, I don't really like FWD cars to begin with and after once having the rear slide out on one going around a corner on the highway in the rain and finding that in a FWD there isn't crap yuo can do about it, except watch everything spin around you, I'd like to have a little insurance since that was freakin scary. And my current car is WAY heavier than that one was.
People been telling me that touring tires are really better than performance tires, how so? and also some are rated as 80k mile does this mean they're harder? does that mean less traction? noisier? bumpier?
I really don't know anythign about buying tires since all my previous experiences were for blem eagles and firehawks since I knew they'd be promptly converted to smoke, but this is a different kind of car and sadly because it means I'm getting old I guess I'm a different kind of driver. And I really don't have the cash for P-zeros or anything real expensive especially since they are 225/60/r16s and by law I have to have something h-rated. help?
I saw some Goodyear Touring Vivas that seemed like would be good but I dunno they are 80k mile tires and I don't know if thats good or bad. And my boss at work says michelin touring t/a is good, but he's a meth-addict so I dunno. This joker at the store was trying to sell me "Ryken Raptors" WTF???
this is the most poorly thought out, bad grammar scatterbrained post I think I have ever made but I'm to lazy to edit and rearrange and I know y'all will figure it out!