Help me choose tires please...
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The Falken FK-452's are an excellent cost effective high performance tire option. In fact, since you are keeping the o.e. C5 wheels, AND, are NOT upgrading to a larger diameter and wider custom wheel set up, then do consider a "PLUS 0" tire sizing upgrade into the following tire sizes: For the Front Tires, install 255/40-17; and, for the Rear Tires, install 285/35-18. Patrick, these new "PLUS 0" tire sizes are available in the Falken FK-452's, and, are more than reasonably priced. And, most importantly, the new upgraded tire sizes recommended above, will fit beautifully on your o.e. C5 wheels. Lastly, I recommend that you take a look at Discount Tire's competitive pricing on the Falkens for a good deal. 
Thanks Patrick
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I just bought a pair of these for the front of my C5 a few weeks ago and so far I'm extremely impressed with them! A lot of people think that all season tires can't perform well on dry pavement, but they are wrong. Sure they won't be as good as a pure summer tire, but tire technology has improved so much lately that a good all season can offer probably 90% of the dry performance of a summer tire. So as long as you're not pushing your car to it's absolute limit, you'll never notice a loss in dry performance with a good ultra high performance all season tire like Goodyear's new F1. But you get the added security of a tire that can handle cold pavement (something a pure summer tire can't do very well)
Patrick
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I heard they are great vendors, will check price with them for the tires i will choose .! Thanks
Patrick
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Sources for all season tire reviews
BTW, for good tire reviews:
Tire rack reviewed Bridgestone, Goodyear, Michelin and Pirelli in a great article entitled "Testing the Next Evolution of High Performance All-Season Tires" at http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/...ay.jsp?ttid=87
Consumer Reports rated the Falken Ziex ZE-912 and Nitto Neo Gen ZR best overall at http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/c...eng0711tir.htm
Also, Tire Rack has good customer reviews but I've found that www.discounttiredirect.com has a lot more customer feedback.
Tire rack reviewed Bridgestone, Goodyear, Michelin and Pirelli in a great article entitled "Testing the Next Evolution of High Performance All-Season Tires" at http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/...ay.jsp?ttid=87
Consumer Reports rated the Falken Ziex ZE-912 and Nitto Neo Gen ZR best overall at http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/c...eng0711tir.htm
Also, Tire Rack has good customer reviews but I've found that www.discounttiredirect.com has a lot more customer feedback.
Melting Slicks
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Whatever tire you go with, go with NON-runflat if performance is important to you. At the time, cost and treadwear were the most important when I bought mine so I went with Kumho Ecsta SPT, they are about half your budget from tirerack. Even for a low cost tire, the performance was far greater than the stock runflat.
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Do some research on the Vredesteins, they are supposed to be top of the line imported tire for way less $$$ then other performance tires. I just got the oversized set up (295 rr/ 275 fr) for $700 shipped to my door from TomZ. Wasn't sure I liked tread design on website but they do look great on the car. Much quieter than the Goodyear F1's...
