Tire life question on 19" wheels

I am not completely sure what you are asking here.

If you like the wheels that are on your car and the tires for that sized rim are reasonable, just stick with the rims you have. Have had fair results with uniroyal tiger paw touring tires on the 17 inch factory wheels that came on our 2012 lt, and the tires are not quite as expensive as what 18's or 19's would be. Only issue I would note is that factory aluminum rims are not made to take potholes, they will easily bend and even can break/crack, don't think that is gonna change with size.

12 lt said:

I am not completely sure what you are asking here.

If you like the wheels that are on your car and the tires for that sized rim are reasonable, just stick with the rims you have. Have had fair results with uniroyal tiger paw touring tires on the 17 inch factory wheels that came on our 2012 lt, and the tires are not quite as expensive as what 18's or 19's would be. Only issue I would note is that factory aluminum rims are not made to take potholes, they will easily bend and even can break/crack, don't think that is gonna change with size.

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I do not care what size wheels come on my next car. My only concern is tire life.
Can I easily change wheel diameters to buy tires with much better life?

Tire and Wheel diameter do not determine tire life. Tire life is dependent on the design of the tire. There are plenty of 19" tires that provide good life upwards of 70,000, just look at Tire Rack, they show the Continental Pure Contact warranted for 70,000 in the Impala 19" Size, Same for Cooper and Michelin and others. Just about all brands offer a 70K tire with everything in between. I can find just as many 17" and 18" that do not have great tire life. It is not wheel or size dependent. I am not sure how these Myths even get started.

If you shoot for the 18" like the ones on the 1LT 4 or 6 cylinders the General altimax gt's cost me mid to upper 500's for a complete set and had 65k mile rating. Since you are down in the south, you could stick with the o.e. Firestones which are a great three season tire, not so good in the snow up here. The will set you back around the $700 area and have a 60K mile rating.

Pat

Bowtie396 said:

Tire and Wheel diameter do not determine tire life. Tire life is dependent on the design of the tire. There are plenty of 19" tires that provide good life upwards of 70,000, just look at Tire Rack, they show the Continental Pure Contact warranted for 70,000 in the Impala 19" Size, Same for Cooper and Michelin and others. Just about all brands offer a 70K tire with everything in between. I can find just as many 17" and 18" that do not have great tire life. It is not wheel or size dependent. I am not sure how these Myths even get started.

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Tire life is also dependent upon maintaining proper air pressure, tire rotation according to manufactuer’s recommendation, and driving habits of the driver.

Not listening to any myths. When I look at tire sizes, the "19 seems to have shorter lifespans. I am glad there are acceptable tires in all sizes.




Thanks to everyone for your replies. I feel better buying a newer car and not having to worry about tire life, regardless of the wheel diameters.


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Fwiw, the uniroyals I have been running on our 12 are on 17's. They are economical have a 70,000 mile tread warranty and they ride pretty nice. Those tires are $91 a piece right now at walmart, for the set with tax and tires mounted and balanced with life of the tire free rotation and balancing, around $450 total. In 18's for the same tire it is about $10 more per tire. I looked for the same tire in 19's and was unable to find them.

With that being said the cost of buying another set of wheels to get a little cheaper tires would likely be a wash over a lengthy enough period of time.

keep in mind as well, you get what you pay for. i was putting the cheap goodyear viva 2/3's ($85-ish/tire at walmart) on my 16 inch wheels and they were ok-ish in the snow but kinda bad on take-off with wet roads. i switched to a bfg advantage t/a sport ($125/tire-ish) and snow/rain travel was much improved. yes i paid more, but after living with a much better tire, i can never go back to the cheap tires again unless i wasn't planning on keeping the car long.

from what i have noticed in wheel size trends 19" wheels may be an odd ball size. that might drive the price up a bit as well since there won't be as many manufacturers offering tires for 19's since it may not be common with car manufacturers. supply and demand come into play then. of course i may be wrong and the 19's could be common these days, someone else would have to chime in to confirm my theory.

Joes74challenger said:

keep in mind as well, you get what you pay for. i was putting the cheap goodyear viva 2/3's ($85-ish/tire at walmart) on my 16 inch wheels and they were ok-ish in the snow but kinda bad on take-off with wet roads. i switched to a bfg advantage t/a sport ($125/tire-ish) and snow/rain travel was much improved. yes i paid more, but after living with a much better tire, i can never go back to the cheap tires again unless i wasn't planning on keeping the car long.

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Not sure what year model the op is looking at, but anything is improvement over the stock junk goodyear tires that came on the 12/13 models. Really is no comparing with the all season uniroyals I have been running to the goodyear tires that came on our car new. Much better ride and performance. Don't get a lot of snow in west TN, but plenty of rain and the occasional ice and had zero issues with the uniroyals. Not sure what the newer models came from the factory with.

Imo goodyear in this day and age = junk. The set of $700+ goodyears I put on my 3/4 ton truck wore waaaay too prematurely too, got less than 25000 miles and about 3 years out of them, before having to replace them. I am sold on nexen 10 ply truck tires.

pirelli p7 do last 70K if you can afford them and excellent in rain, which i believe is in all 50 states. full confidence in them!

Generally speaking if I want a tire that gives me good durability I go with the "GTAS" aka Grand Touring All Season Tires specification. That means top of the line Passenger, any grade higher than GTAS goes into performance and you don't want that. GTAS tires last a long time, you do want to shop around because they're not cheap but they also perform well.
Grand Touring All Season
GTAS

Well, I can tell you that my car has about 84,000 miles and I'm on already on my third set of the stock 19" Goodyear Eagle RS-A2's.

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Well, I can tell you that my car has about 84,000 miles and I'm on already on my third set of the stock 19" Goodyear Eagle RS-A2's.

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why would you keep getting the same junk? those tires scared me so much in rain i ditched them before they wore out.

p7s will last you 80K and i feel they are far superior than most other tires.

Tire life question on 19" wheels

luckydriver said:

why would you keep getting the same junk? those tires scared me so much in rain i ditched them before they wore out.



p7s will last you 80K and i feel they are far superior than most other tires.

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Yeah, everytime I said I was going to get better ones but decided to go less expensive and needed them immediately. I’ll probably go with better ones next time.


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if you can find cheaper continentals that would be a better option as well.