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help, please: I'm researching new tires, and a guy at a tire store just told me that my car should have "v" rated ones..

Posted by b. (aka starrynit) Apr 24 '12, 11:07

google tells me:
This tire has a speed rating of V, which means 149 mph (240 km/h) is the maximum speed that can be sustained for 10 minutes. A higher speed becomes dangerous.

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since I seldom go 149 (stoopid commute traffic!), is there anything else involved with the letter rating? these (michelin primacy) are ~$20 more each, not including tax, etc., and are warrantied 60K vs. 90 for the tires I was originally checking (michelin hydroedge).

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in Switzerland you have to have tires that go up to your car's max speed. -- nm - marcel Apr 24, 11:13 1
- alas, the odds of most people here (football players with police escorts aside) actually going their top speed are slim. -- nm - b. Apr 24, 11:16
now that y'all have gotten that out of your systems, any actual help? someone? anyone? -- nm - b. Apr 24, 11:12
V is massively inappropriate unless you have a high performance sports car.R or S is fine. -- nm - colin Apr 24, 11:12 4
- *mwah* how about T? -- nm - b. Apr 24, 11:13 2
  - they'll be a better tire, so sure. as long as they're not super expensive. - colin Apr 24, 11:18 1
    - thank you very much! they're in the middle of price and have good enough reviews. what bugged me the most is that - b. Apr 24, 11:20
- *marks this as the new thing I learned today* -- nm - oblique Apr 24, 11:13
they are Vagina rated tires. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 11:11
get the ones that look coolest -- nm - pixitude Apr 24, 11:11 5
- unrelated: the hubcaps on my Cobalt are very tinny when I go over bumps because they are not clipped on at the rim but in the center - oblique Apr 24, 11:12 4
  - just take 'em off. if you had nice rims, you wouldn't need hubcaps. -- nm - colin Apr 24, 11:13 1
    - and what would I be looking at cost wise comparatively? I agree it would be silly to buy hubcaps if rims were about the same price -- nm - oblique Apr 24, 11:14
  - get some spinners. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 24, 11:13 1
    - that's what I was thinking. They make them with neon, right? -- nm - oblique Apr 24, 11:13
I think the guy in the tire store is trying to get into your v rating -- nm - oblique Apr 24, 11:09
Well, it also stands for Victory! - Stephen Apr 24, 11:08 1
- Alien. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 24, 11:10

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