Midlife Crisis talking about tires for your Chevrolet C6 Corvette and cars in general

Hello, welcome everyone to another edition of the

midlife

crisis

. Your host, Leo, is fine, so today's special we're going to talk about is

tires

. Okay, look guys. Everyone likes

tires

that wear out. I don't want to spend a lot of money because they just swear you drive them and they get dirty, well yeah you're right, they do and they get dirty, they wear out, but you gotta get the right tires. Let me explain why cheap tires will cost you a lot more money in the future. Long term, let me explain: you buy cheap tires for

your

Corvette or any high performance car or motorcycle, cheap tires, this is what's going to happen, they won't have grip.

It's okay, it will be cold outside and they will slide a little. they take a long time to warm up, they are a harder compound, because you looked at that rating and it said you're going to get 60,000 miles, you're not going to get 60,000 miles out of a high performance tire the higher the mileage the manufacturer guarantees it will be fine the harder it is Whatever the tire needs to be to achieve that mileage, a softer tire will get less mileage, but here's the thing: if the tire is softer, it will have better grip, for years and years.

I owned a motorcycle shop a while back and I enjoy it when the guys come in on their racing bikes with their Suzuki gsxrs and Honda cbrs and Yamaha r1s and R6S and say they are ninjas right next to Cali. and they say, "I just want cheap tires, I don't want to spend a lot of time and money on tires and I tell them okay, cheap tires when you're in a camber period and you're not leaning much and if you give it gas and you're going fast, it just goes they'll come up from underneath, you lose grip, you'll crash and it'll cost you a lot more to fix that bike if you don't total it, okay?

Same thing with

cars

they're fine, these

cars

have a lot of power, rear wheel drive, fiberglass, they don't weigh anything. compared to other cars, okay, so what's going to happen? Cheap tires are not going to grip. You're going to hit the gas because what you want is just a sports car you feel like Rush, you're just going to smoke the tires. and hopefully that's all you do, you just smoke the tires, take off the gas and continue on

your

way Worst case scenario, you're going to smoke the tires, the rear is You're going to go sideways and you're going to. shooting into a tree on a curve towards a railing after being banned from jumping off a cliff, okay so let's not be stingy now, that being said, you don't have to spend a lot of money when it comes to buying. tires that I have on this car, they come with them Michelin Pilot Sports, okay, Michelin Pilot Sports, they are very good traction tires, okay, you have the 245 uh 4018s 285 35 19s in the rear, they are really great tires, now My tires come with the car.

They have a little bit of dry rot on them, they still have a lot of tread, but they are starting to rot a little bit just from sitting because you don't drive these cars much, so you'll find that you could replace your tires more frequently because to dry rot because they are cracking, drying out and separating and becoming unsafe than you because you are wearing down the tread. I now value these tires as new from a reputable company due to their purchase. power has the least expensive prices, the cheapest prices on the exact same name brand tires that would cost you more money elsewhere and it still cost me $1648 for all four tires mounted and balanced on the car that doesn't even include an alignment .

Every time you do four tires, you want to get an alignment to make sure you get the most out of those tires because you hit bumps and your alignment goes a little crazy and off center and stuff, that's a lot of money, now I know them. They are saying look, you just told us that you have to spend the money you have to get the good things you can't buy the cheap things here there is a bit of work ladies and gentlemen we have the Internet are you looking at me on the Internet there are There are many other ways to shop on Online, you can get a great set of wheels, rims, and rims, even slightly used, for a fraction of the price of what four new tires will cost you.

For example, I went to Marketplace and searched for something local. For me, I found the gentleman who was selling four tires with 10,000 miles on them, they could be 30, 35,000 mile tires with 10,000 miles on them, you say, well, you know, a third of the life is gone, yeah. but I paid a third of the price so it came with four rims and four rims, instead of paying $1648 for four new tires I paid five hundred dollars for four rims with four chrome rims mounted balanced and ready to go on the car included with the TPMS sensors for the car to read what the tire pressure is in each tire come here yeah that's me so these tires are in great shape they are Michelin Pilot Sport as3 they are run flat tires so yeah you get a However, they will run without air, so it's a hard sidewall, okay.

I know some guys put on no-flat tires, just regular performance tires, but not with the run-flat characteristics because the sidewalls are a little bit softer so you can ride a little bit smoother in these cars because they're pretty cars. rigid don't do that they don't come with a spare that's okay because the front wheels don't match the rear wheels so they don't give you a spare for these cars so if you don't get a flat tire and you blow a tire , you could destroy the tire, it could be destroyed before you can even stop because there is a very low profile on the side of the tire with the Run Flats, you blow a tire, it will get a little wavy, you will have to breastfeed at home, take it easy when going home, but it will still get you home within a reasonable distance, okay?

Or at least you'll be able to do it. side and get a flatbed truck to tow you home if you don't feel comfortable driving on it, which is fine, you can do whatever works for you, but like I said, I have these four tires with TPMS tire sensors bounced and ready to go. five hundred dollars I didn't have to spend sixteen hundred and forty-eight dollars, I will get a lot of use out of them and if they are different tires than the ones I have and if I wanted I can go and pay to put these tires on my own rims and then I could just sell these tires or I could just put these rims on my car and sew the ones on my car to even get some of the money back now I will reveal that the rims on the rims you would buy me use, I would only have four rotten new rims, but maybe someone just needs the rims because they break, okay and you give them a good deal so I spent 500 on these four maybe throw in my friends for 400 the best deal and I'll take three hundred dollars three hundred dollars for four wheels Corvette is a bargain so I'm helping someone.

I'm getting money back and then I ended up getting tires for 200 dollars and they are good tires. I don't get cheap tires, okay look at me personally, I'm a Pirelli and Michelin man, okay those two brands are great. I'm not a Dunlop fan personally, years and years ago when I had the bike shop, I left in 2008, hopefully, from them. So far, it's 2023, they've improved their product, but on motorcycles, at least even the ones that came with Suzuki's factory dunlops, they just didn't have grip, took forever to warm up, wanted a higher mileage tire and didn't. they did it. handle the high performance riding that I used to do on my racing motorcycles, okay, I used to have a Suzuki GSXR 600, I had a Yamaha R1, I had a Suzuki Hayabusa, which is a 1300, technically it's okay, 1299 cubic centimeters in the four online, okay, a very powerful motorcycle.

I mean, I put Buffy at 185 miles per hour and it wasn't even spraying nitrous, so you really want good tires when I got up to that speed. She was on Pirellis. I wouldn't have trusted anything else, okay, my friends, some of them like Ramparelli. I, some of them ran Michelin, those are two big names, great quality, performance tires. I hope Dunlop has upped their game and is on point. I know they only race slick track bikes as Dunlop is great, but Street Tire with Tourette not so much. It's 2008, now it's 2023. I don't know what those tires are like today, but I can tell you one thing.

The excellent Pirelli and Michelin urban performance tires, having been around for at least over two and three decades, can't go wrong. I love them, they're great, they're the as3 versus the regular Michelin Sports, so what's going to happen is the tread is a little different, it actually has more contact patch, the Michelin Sports, not the as3, the that are in this current car. a little better for the rain, but it is a convertible. I won't be taking it out in the rain and if I get stuck in some rain you know I'm going to baby at home so I'm happy with these tires and recommend them.

You guys do some online shopping, do some homework before you just walk in somewhere, throw away the credit card and suddenly go into a ton of debt, you don't need them, that's fine, so try to save some money. before you go buy something new for this car, being a 2008, it's 2023. I mean, this car is 15 years old, right? So do I really want to spend a huge, all-consuming amount of money? No 15 year old car looks great, I love it. It runs fantastic, it's beautiful, I enjoy driving it, but I don't want to go broke for it, that's fine, so I hope I've helped you a little.

You will do some homework. Make sure you do some homework on your car. Make sure. you try to get a good deal share them, okay there are a lot of thefts out there, sometimes people buy something and then get rid of the car and buy new tires. There was a guy who had new rear tires. 250 dollars. Talking about 500 a tire and it sells for 240 dollars, it was reduced from 300 to 240 dollars for two new Michelin sports cars, but the guy was three hours away from me, which means I have to drive three hours there and three hours back and I would return. in my Dodge Ram truck that gets you 16 miles per gallon and the way I drive a little less on average so you just want to evaluate, keep your eyes open when you start to notice that your vehicle might mean something or that If you want something, start searching, that way you give yourself time to find it because you may search and it may not be available.

Okay, you might be able to get us a rear spoiler or a front splitter, a side skirt, some wheels, an exhaust or some kind of interior accessory or steering wheel, whatever it is, you can find it if you just look and take your time and don't You're in a hurry when you're in a hurry, hurry means expensive, that means you're going to pay for it, okay? so take your time, put on good tires, okay, don't go out and start putting on Continental. Well, I realized. I'll give you another little advice. C7s 20-inch wheels for the rear and 19-inch wheels for the front will fit this car. fill the wheel well a little more, but they will fit fine.

The gentleman who sold me these actually bought the C7 wheels for himself, which is why he was selling them. He now he knows what else is needed for a 20 inch tire that is as wide as Lamborghini Murcielago Corvettes okay, so what happens? Those guys change tires all the time. Oh, it's been sitting, let me change the tire. You can get Kumo tires. High performance Kumo tires for little money. $300 to fix $400 for tires. I mean, it is. incredible offers, just look, take your time and you will find something that will benefit you. I just don't want to see you guys, you know you're hurting, I can't do the next project, I can't move on to the next car.

Meet you can't spend money on super unleaded for your Corvette because you can't put regular on these things because you spend so much money on tires or any other parts you may need shop around, you'll be surprised what you'll find good and I'll make sure, No matter what you do, have fun. You have to have fun. You don't have fun. No good. It's okay, you have to have fun. You have to enjoy your toy. Otherwise, get rid of it. Thank you so much. This is Leo signing. off