| Re: [Tires] Good News For A Small Set Of Early C4 Owners |
Subject: Re: [Tires] Good News For A Small Set Of Early C4 Owners by bogus on 2012/3/7 6:18:25 Quote:
yea... even the Michelin tech, speaking at Sebring in the Corvette Corral made reference to some 17" sizes becoming less available. I do think that the Corvette's 275/40/17 will stay, but the 315 and 255 widths are going to get hard to find. You figure that the 275's were also used on Mustangs and F-Bodies, so there are a lot of other cars that used them. But think of the plight of the Lambo Countach owner. They have these monster wide 15" things (335, I think), and NO ONE IS MAKING THEM!!! There has been a call out for a small batch, but even then, only Pirelli made them. Michelin does not like having tires stay on the shelves more than 6 months, so they only sell sizes that, well, sell. And since they are a batch maker (a whole bunch of one size at a time), they are not going to be offering certain tires in unpopular sizes. I asked about the new PS2 Cup's, these are the shit, yo, but there are no plans of offering them in the 275/40/17 size. Period. |
