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Re: Spring Tire Fever
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Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Mon, 8 May 2017 06:51:43 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Spring Tire Fever, blacksheep [Profile/Gallery] , Sun, 7 May 2017 23:05:48
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Oh, you are running 15" wheels! not going to be a lot of performance options for those anymore sadly. That is partly why I went to 16". I got superaeros and I'm running 195/55R16 General GMAX AS03's and they are great. I like directional tires, and there are very few performance options for the c900 now. On my 9-5, I'm running Bridgestone re970's which are excellent and I would have used them on the c900 but are not available in c900 sizes. GMAX is very similar. Both are performance summer tires masquerading as "high performance all season tires"... both are atrocious in any snow, but are excellent in water and are tight in terms of handling.

So I would suggest either of those if you can get them in your size. General used to make a directional grand touring tire that came in 15" size also, which I had considered, but it was discontinued before I bought. That tire was replaced by a symmetric non-directional (typical of all season tires). Nokian used to make some 15" H rated directional summer tires (NRH) that were awesome, but that was a decade or more ago. They may still offer some options, but their summer tires are mostly only sold in europe (aside from the entyre - their green economy tire for Prius etc). If you can get them, they do tend to have smaller wheel sizes available in H or V rated.

I love the super aeros, but the offset is a minor issue (stick out a bit). I can see that being more of a problem if you use wide tires, but at 195, they seem fine. 195/55R16 is exactly the same diameter as 185/65R15. 205 splits the difference one way or another with 2% error at 16" but 205/60R15 is within 1% of 185/65R15, so that tire choice is probably fine.

good luck!

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