The manufacturers are slowly (or mayby not so slowly) discontinuing tire selections from the 13" range of tires. The reason is that there are very few compact cars that are coming out today that use that size. The ones that are still being produced are econo-boxes and they typically use skinny cheap tires and those are not all that suitable for our needs.
So what to do? You pretty much have to search the internet for choices to see what is available in performance. At last chack,I found the choices extremely limited. I need some more rear tires on my Mk1 Spit and wil be going through the same thing in the next few months. On my other car, I installed Panasport 15: wheels (6" wide) and find that the selection increases dramatically as you go up in diameter. I am using Kumho Ecsta Supra 205-50R15 on them. It is a good aggressive tread design with a very soft compound and is performance tested up to something like 150 mph. On the 13" wheels, I use 175-70R13 Perilli's but the tires I have are no longer being made so I will have to search fora good alternative. Good Luck and let me know what you find. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:02 AM Subject: [Spits] Tire size > Hi list, > > I just received my new 13x5.5 wheels and was wondering what size tires > others with this wheel size and no fender mods are using? > > Thanks, > > James '66 Spitfire > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [email protected] > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires
