Yes, and they usually came with whitewalls!
2001 Buick 20-year old spare tire... Hard to find!
- Thread starter JGmazda
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Yes, and they usually came with whitewalls!
Looking stylish. I like the rims. The sidewalls will feel better too.
Ha! I remember those days... Cars were so much simpler to maintain in many ways. Love the tires. (Back when tires were tires and not rubber bands.
)But the size common 15” rubber won’t fit inside your wheelwells
A 165/65r14 actually is very similar outer diameter to the original tires.
but there's not a lot available in that size... GF 's '14 Mirage just blew out a tire on her way home from work yesterday(maybe she just had a flat when she came out to her car..i didn't notice anything when i parked next to her....) and that's the OE size.
Discount lists exactly 4 options in that size.
Khumo Solus TA31 $68/ea
Falken Sincera SN250A A/S $82/ea
Nokian Nordman 7(Winter tire) $94/ea
Dunlop Ensave(The Mirage OE Tire) for $187/ea
When I asked about the blown tire "Hopefully it's patchable?" she said it was from a crack/split in the sidewall... she got home safely on the Donut, will hit Discount on Friday (right in front of where we work, that's the next time she's working... lives 45 min away)
Meh, the best tire ever made for small economy cars is in that list
Thanks for posting this. The photos prove that this failure is strictly due to age. It's so good I am including it on my webpage about tire aging!
The spare in my 1999 Taurus looked like that. Maxxis tire made in China I believe. Just picked up this one from from a 1998 in the junkyard yesterday for $20. Uniroyal. Not worried about the age.
