2016 tires





For a regular Stingray (18/19), there are runflat, A/S tires per tirerack (which doesn't list yet for '16 model year): http://www.tirerack.com/tires/TireSe...SortCode=57950
For Z51 Stingray (19/20), there are no runflat, A/S tires, but there is this:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/TireSe...SortCode=60100
That's the best (so far) the tire companies can do. It still remains a somewhat limited, but choice of the owner as to what tires, or model of car to select depending on what is important to the owner. Stay tuned for more choices from the tire company(ies).
Even The Ferrari FF 4 Wheel Drive Comes With Max Summer Tires! Guess if you want All-Season tires you'll have to spring for the extra money after you spend $300,000+ for the car!
When I lived "Up North," up to 30 years ago, I always had winter tires! They were mounted on another set of wheels and I changed them when winter was over. Even my 1984 Dodge Colt Turbo (I had just before moving South from Connecticut) had 4 winter tires on the OEM 13 inch rims and I switched to high performance Pirelli's on aluminum 14 inch wheels for the remainder of the year.
As noted, Ferrari and other high performance cars don't offer "all-season" or mud & snow tire options! Reminds me of the poster who asked if the Vette could be used in snow and on dirt roads! Now when I lived in North East Ohio I had a CJ5 for the winter! Parked my 260Z, too much salt on the roads! Think a Jeep CJ is what he really needed to buy! Great for off-roading in the summer as well!
I also found side skirts were a must to keep the rocker panels from getting dinged. If you get a Z06 they are standard! Installed the GM Splash Guards that help for the rear panel but the issues on the rocker panels are from the middle of the door back. GM installed some thick 3M plastic in that area but it soon looks crappy. Once I installed the side skirts I was able to remove it.
Then there is a catch can and if a Z51 or Z06 a clean oil separator to add. Some protector for the inside door panels, and if you get a standard shift a cue ball size shift **** is a good addition as is a skip shift eliminator! You’ll need to power a radar detector so finding where to put it and how to power is another semi-mod. I also found a way to have the shallow cup holder not spill a water bottle but that took a mod. Hard not to add a few mods but admittedly some of us go overboard!
Last edited by JerryU; May 10, 2015 at 06:45 PM.
I also think I was still in college the last time I had a flat tire (probably just jinxed myself with that statement).
For me it's more than just convenience. I have been driving on run flats for the past 18 years(since 1997 in my C5 and now in my Z06) and have not had a flat either. I carry a spare tire in my other three cars and the last time I had to put the spare on was back in 1995.
But I'm 72 years old and crawling around in the dirt trying to plug a 13 inch wide tire on a car that is sitting just 3 inches off the ground(with a non run flat tire that has collapsed the sidewall entirely), is not my idea of fun driving. Try to get a jack under the car with it sitting on a flattened not run flat tire, to change out the tire.
I guess for those that never drive more than 50 miles from home and live where there are plenty of rollbacks and drive on nice roads with extra wide shoulders to immediately pull off on, then non run flat tires are okay, I guess.
That's not how I drive. I put 11,000 miles on my Z06 last year out west, driving on narrow roads with limited cell service.
Just last week I drove to Natchez, MS, then drove the 442 miles Natchez Trace Parkway to Nashville, then on the heavy traffic I-65 to Bowling Green. Driving 75-80 in the left lane and have a tire blow and try to cross three lanes of bumper to bumper fast moving traffic, to get to the right hand shoulder in one piece would tear up a non run flat tire in short order(and maybe ruin the wheel. The Natchez Trace Parkway is not a road that you want to have a flat on. I did not have a flat, but if I had, I could drive my Z06 with it's run flat tires to an area(driveway, rest area, history marker, etc) and pull of the road and then deal with the flat.
I only drive my Z06 in the warm months of the year but I suspect that people that want all season tires, intend to drive their Corvette in possibly poor weather. That's when I want a tire that I can drive on for up to fifty miles without getting out in bad weather, resting in a prone position on the wet cold ground while trying to plug a hole I can't see with a car sitting just 3 inches off the ground, with my feet extending out in the highway(if my flat is on the drivers side).
Like I said, it's more than simply convenience having run flat tires.
Last edited by JoesC5; May 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM.





I'm hoping that I can find a C6 or C7 owner who will buy my OEM tires as I will sell them for at least $500 less than the TireRack price.
Last edited by rmorin1249; May 11, 2015 at 09:33 AM.
Many northern owners may be concerned with safety and willing to sacrifice some performance to select an AS option.
While you can (as some have indicated) coordinate a tire swap at the dealership during the process. A buddy went through this when he bought his (it was a 1 week delay in dealer getting the tires and installing them and then my buddy having to figure out how to get he four summer tires home from the dealership when he picked up his C7 and storing them someplace warm when he got them home).
It makes more sense IMO to give the buyer the option for one tire or the other at the time of purchase as many owners never test the lateral G limits of our cars.
Was not an issue for me being in Florida, but I do sympathize with those living north and buying the car as a daily driver.
Just my $.02. I'd never have given this a second thought had not my buddy explained all he had to go though to get his tires swapped out and the extra $1200+ expense.
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I have Mich AS run-flats on my C6 and they don't corner as well as the Badyear F1s that came with it, but they're less expensive and much handier in the rain. More durable, too; a set lasts me more than a year of daily driving.
Still, I can understand why GM has only the high-performance tires as OEM. If you'd rather have all-seasons, then as has been said, just order your own and switch them out before leaving the dealer. You can sell the OEMs in a flash, as C6s use the same size.
For me it's more than just convenience. I have been driving on run flats for the past 18 years(since 1997 in my C5 and now in my Z06) and have not had a flat either. I carry a spare tire in my other three cars and the last time I had to put the spare on was back in 1995.
But I'm 72 years old and crawling around in the dirt trying to plug a 13 inch wide tire on a car that is sitting just 3 inches off the ground(with a non run flat tire that has collapsed the sidewall entirely), is not my idea of fun driving. Try to get a jack under the car with it sitting on a flattened not run flat tire, to change out the tire.
I guess for those that never drive more than 50 miles from home and live where there are plenty of rollbacks and drive on nice roads with extra wide shoulders to immediately pull off on, then non run flat tires are okay, I guess.
That's not how I drive. I put 11,000 miles on my Z06 last year out west, driving on narrow roads with limited cell service.
Just last week I drove to Natchez, MS, then drove the 442 miles Natchez Trace Parkway to Nashville, then on the heavy traffic I-65 to Bowling Green. Driving 75-80 in the left lane and have a tire blow and try to cross three lanes of bumper to bumper fast moving traffic, to get to the right hand shoulder in one piece would tear up a non run flat tire in short order(and maybe ruin the wheel. The Natchez Trace Parkway is not a road that you want to have a flat on. I did not have a flat, but if I had, I could drive my Z06 with it's run flat tires to an area(driveway, rest area, history marker, etc) and pull of the road and then deal with the flat.
I only drive my Z06 in the warm months of the year but I suspect that people that want all season tires, intend to drive their Corvette in possibly poor weather. That's when I want a tire that I can drive on for up to fifty miles without getting out in bad weather, resting in a prone position on the wet cold ground while trying to plug a hole I can't see with a car sitting just 3 inches off the ground, with my feet extending out in the highway(if my flat is on the drivers side).
Like I said, it's more than simply convenience having run flat tires.












I guess I qualify as poor as I have to choose which one of my two corvettes each day will have to get wet!!!