tires for 02 protege es

[aw76]

so i just bought a 02 protege es today, and it needs new tires...im sure u all know that the size is fairly mazda specific as when i call tire shops and mention the size, they usually say "mazda, eh?"

as much as i would love to drive it like a sports car and put the expensive z rated tires on it, i do not want to spend that kind of money just to have them wear out after 30 or 40 000 kms...

have found 2 tire places that have h rated tires in the size(195/50/16) that will supposedly get better life...

the choices at present are

toyo proxie tpt or falkens (cant remember model)

anyone on here familiar with the 2 brands and share some insight as to which would be the better one to go with?

any other advice for a particular tire to look for in that size that will give me some longer life?

thanks for your input

s

 

[Outlawstar98]

Falken's.

 

[JM1Protege]

man you can fit a 205/55/16 on our wheels! if you would bump up to this tire size there are a cupple more options available. Other tires to look into would be the BF Goodwrench gforces and Kumho ecstas

 

[Outlawstar98]

BF Goodrich***


LoL I will tell people to get BF Goodrich over anything else

 

[TTBadDog]

Any chance these would fit?
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/CompareTires.jsp?removeIndex=0|155HR6TTA&width=215/&ratio=55&diameter=16

 

[poison]

Try these:

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/d...c=33860&counter=3&ar=45&rd=16&sw=false&cs=215

And stay away fro Falken 512's. 912's are better.

 

[R-X-R]

does 205/50/16 fit on that rim? any idea?

 

[blueprotegelx]

i just bought 2 tires (195/55R/16) off ebay for 55 bucks shipped and they have about 85% tread left.

 

[el_Don]

I had Kumho's, nice but the tread life wasn't that great (<2 years)
right now I have Falken's. They're nice, we'll see how the tread life is

 

[MaxPower]

With pretty mild driving, I got about 25,000miles out of both the Falken Ziex ZE-912 and ZE-512. The Falken's are known to have a relatively poor tread life.

Consider 205/45R16, also (Miata size). The selection is far more extensive with that size and the difference in odometer is 1.7%. With 215/45R16 it's only 0.2%.