just bought 05 solara se v6 sport!

by **sportscarguy** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:02 pm

i just bought it, can't wait til i get it at the end of next week!! got a black one....

i heard the tires are pretty bad on the car....does anyone know what kinda tires they are on a 2005 se v6 sport? i forgot to check....
any suggestions on replacements? the size is pretty rare...will 225 work?

by **cam2Xrunner** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:12 pm

The tires are going to be either the toyo's or the bridgestone el42's or el40's or something like that. Lets hope that you got the Toyo's. Congratulations on the new purchase and welcome to solaraguy.

by **junest** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:05 pm

Welcome to the forums. If your car come with bridgestone tires, those are pretty good.

by **Shoe** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:26 am

junest wrote:Welcome to the forums. If your car come with bridgestone tires, those are pretty good.

lotsa people here will argue that

shoe

by **slingshot** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:22 am

Shoe wrote:
junest wrote:Welcome to the forums. If your car come with bridgestone tires, those are pretty good.

lotsa people here will argue that

shoe

She said pretty good, not great. I think that is a pretty accurate assessment. What specific performance problems have you noticed? I've had the Bridgestone OEM's for over a year so far in rain, snow, etc and haven't had any problems so far. Perhaps the SLE's added safety features make it less important to have stellar all-weather tires. Non-SLE's might have worse bad-weather tire performance. Only performance issue I've seen is high speed turns where the weakness is now in the tires after I replaced the rear sway bar. But for normal driving, I wouldn't say it's crap at all and isn't almost all driving normal driving? How often do you race and do twisties? I'm interested in finding out the life of these OEM tires. What's the most mileage anyone has gotten so far with them (17" Bridgestone EL42's)?

by **Shoe** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:49 pm

i dont mind the bridgestones BUT do a search in the gen 2 section on tires and see how many swear words are used to describe the tires by more than a few people

shoe

Website · by **TS04** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:38 pm

Nice CHOICE. Another black Gen 2. Get some pics up when you can. Welcome to the forum. Here's the info you need.

Wheel, Tire, Bolt info

by **michaels artic frost** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:08 pm

Welcome to the forum. Have you picked up your new ride? Good luck on all of your mods and upgrades.

-Michael

just bought 05 solara se v6 sport!

just bought 05 solara se v6 sport!

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