Rookie Mistakes When Buying Tires

Tires are something we cannot avoid buying. Tires wear out overtime and they are essential to our vehicles performance, but if you buy the wrong tires, everything can go downhill fast. Today, Alex talks about the rookie mistakes people can make when buying tires.

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[FitmentIndustries]

What are your favorite tires? Comment below! Don’t forget to check out wheels, tires, and suspension over at www.fitmentindustries.com

[chasejones]

Rubber is very important. It can mean the difference of security or 18 years of headaches. Ohhh wait wrong rubber and video 🤣

[vincent]

Driving an AWD car and only replacing the front tires and then wondering why your center diff is so mad at you.

[potatosalad]

🔥If your reading this I hope you get your dream car🔥

[freeweights]

In California, Summer tires is all season tires

[yerrrrray]

I did not understand a single measurement he said.

[ManuelRodriguez-cnsp]

Changing your tires does not affect your alignment. You need to balance so the tire sits evenly but it doesn't affect your alignment

[YouOnlyIiveTwice]

Didn't know jack about tires when wanting to buy my wheels. Spent 3 weeks reading about tire sizes and what all those numbers meant plus going to that Fitment Industries website and looking at exactly what I wanted. Turned out amazing and I didn't have to get embarrassed at the tire shop when getting them installed because it actually looked like I knew what I was doing lol

[vcdrny]

I took 3 months of looking checking, price comparing, reviews reading, etc etc before I ordered a tire wheel set for my Camaro. It was all worth it. I love how they look and I get a lot of compliments on it.

[arifleming]

I made the mistake of getting 205 on a 17x8 thinking I was gonna fit in with all the cool kids. Big surprise I wasn't, since then I'm sticking with 225 since more meat means more ride comfort without much sacrifice to sportiness.

[thewaywardgrape]

It amazes me how many people *don't check and adjust tyre pressure regularly*

[logan]

Rookie mistake when buying anything: Your car parts are all important, don't get cheap car parts. Buy our parts.

[Nick_Tank]

My “TPMS” light is on and I ain’t worried about it. That’s the only light on my dash and I’m happy about it💪🏾😂

[artsohc]

Rookie mistakes when getting your car wrapped.

[PhatMoistDoinks]

5:56 that actually happened to me after I had mounted my TSWs, but then the car stopped being stupid and finally cleared the TPMS light as I had transferred my factory TPMS over to my new wheels instead of having to drop more money for a new set.


As for All Season tires, I live up here in Colorado and I'm always hitting the mountains, but I'm hitting those corners hard and fast in BFGoodwrich Comp 2 A/S tires. I've never ran any other tire because of just how bi polar our weather is. It can be super duper nice out, perfect for hitting the mountains and suddenly your hit by the massive amount of snow or heavy rains the next day, but then the day after it can bright and sunny again or Colorado's most common weather type during everything except Summer: Boost Weather.


All Seasons have never failed me, they stick alot more than you'd think in good weather and grip when they need to during snow. Maybe get a teeny, weenie little wheel spin with them when up in the mountains because I do like to leave my ST without TC and ESC on because I can't be alittle bitch, but when I do leave them on, the car sticks to the ground with those tires.

[blackrogue]

Pro mother-humping tip!

Not every 275/40/17 are all the same as far as how the tire sits on the rim lip.

Some tires sit inside the lip and some sit a little outside.

Found this out the hard way...

[aquaticasmr]

I got a Mk4 golf slammed 205/40/18 all around on 18x8.5s
Perfect amount of stretch

[plorwax]

Buying used tires with plenty of threads while not checking the manufactured date. Slap on my car and it was hockey puck hard and wore out like it was made of chalk.

[videomaniac]

I have a Nissan 370Z sport 6MT and when it came time to replace the OEM Bridgestone Potenza S007 tires, that only got about 15K miles on them, I went with the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S. The upfront cost of the Michelins was higher than most, but the cost per mile over the 35K miles that I ran the tires was actually less than most of the 23 other brands of tires that I had been considering. This tire was a 300tw tire that was warrantied for 30K miles, but was cut in half because I have a staggered fitment that wouldn't allow tire rotations. The tires wore completely uniformly across the tread and even still had a little tread left when I replaced them after 35K miles. As much as I liked the tires, the only drawback for me was the slightly vague steering and lack of high precision, that I attributed to the extremely flexible sidewalls. The replacement tires that I just put on are the Pilot Sport Cup 2(240) connect. They'll probably get less mileage but the steering definitely feels better and the ride quality hasn't suffered noticeably. They won't be as good on wet roads but that is not a problem for me.

The moral to the story is that sometimes there is real value in some of these better tires, even if they are more expensive initially. Do the research on the tires that match your driving style and the road conditions you expect to operate in and don't be afraid to spend a few bucks more for a good tire. You won't be sorry in the long run.

[FSRuziel]

General tire g-max rs 245 40 on 18” wheels for my Acura TL 2012 was the best decision. Take turns at twice the posted speed with no loss of traction