How long did YOUR firestones last?
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20,000 miles on mine and still goin pretty good. Trying to wear them out so I have an excuse to get 17's.
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Rep Power: 0 Mine are still in decent shape at 34,000 miles but like everyone says - car handles poorly with them. If I decided not to trade the car they will be replaced with a new set of rims and tires.
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From: anaheim, CA., California, US
Rep Power: 0 I just use them for 2 weeks and bought a new rim! They belong to my garage I never know when I needed them. Like long trip or something use it as a Spare its better to bring two spare tires on long driving specially when your alone.
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they r gonna kill one day... already 16500 on them... rotated once... waiting for some money for new 16"s
they r gonna kill one day... already 16500 on them... rotated once... waiting for some money for new 16"s
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From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Rep Power: 0 Does anyone know WHY Honda uses these cheapass tires for their cars? Really, WHY? Is it just that they're so much cheaper? Is the cars handling and the customer's satisfaction less important than saving some money? I'm wondering if any other car manufacturers equip their cars with worse or similar tires..
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From: Markham, Ontario, Canada
Rep Power: 0 Put it this way...say they save a buck on each tire so that's four dollars per car. Mutiply that by a year's production run (like 80000 cars per year) that's already 320000. It's no small amount of money by any means.
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Rep Power: 0 I still have the Firestones on my EX sedan (14,000 miles) which I'll keep until I absolutely have to change them. Yeah, I'm a cheapo. I'd rather save up the money for laser surgery for my eyes or something else. But I did see some Pirelli tires at discounttiredirect.com that I like, P4000 Super Touring (new) P205/60R-15 91H B.
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Rep Power: 0 10,500 miles on mine and they're about toast. Then again, I have raced alot on these tires and spin the hell out of them to warm them up some. They don't grab worth a darn to begin with, so warming them up is your only choice.
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Rep Power: 0 ok i don't spin the tires and they only lasted 13,000 miles i have 21,000 miles now and they look like race slicks getting new tires tommorow and told honda to shove there tires where the sun don't shine
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Rep Power: 0 << my firestones didnt last very long at all, they got stolen out of my storage unit. >>
Maybe the guy who stole them puts em on his car and slides off a cliff
That would be ironic.... 
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I've only got 36600 km on mine but I swear, I've plugged them like 6 times...so once the tax return comes I'll have to do some research on tires and rims (damn 4 lugs 
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And yeah, Winter performance sucks. Slides over the most insignifigant amount of snow! And I'm a pretty safe driver!
)And yeah, Winter performance sucks. Slides over the most insignifigant amount of snow! And I'm a pretty safe driver!
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Re: How long did YOUR firestones last?
you got lucky, mine were bald at 20k miles with very light driving. they hydroplaned all the time, terrible handling, and felt like i was driving a geo metro. and the tires are not cheap, they go for almost $90 a piece on tirerack and the average rating is 1.5 out of 10 lol. the $50 fuzion tires i have now are night and day difference.
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