HELP me find tires (T1-S's or S-03's)
 

I am still looking for Toyo T1-S's or Bridgestone S-03's in 275/35/19 and 245/35/19 sizes. I have yet to find a place that has either in stock, or can get them in a timely manner.

I know someone wants to see all my mods on (tires are holding me back), so someone help me out....

You ain't the only one looking for those damn sizes... but I want something less expensive than T1S's.

so did I, I suspect that in a year or so, there will be MANY more, less expensive tires out there (nittos, kumhos, etc) and the market will bring the prices down. I bet by the time I replace my current tires, these very same tires will be less $ and other alternatives will be up to $100 less/tire. This is what happened when my wife needed new 225/40/18 a few years ago, compared to now (back then that was sort of a big and new tire size).

"looks" like http://onlinetires.com has the T1 your after, give them a buzz to check for sure.

I got mine from depotire, aka kaufman tire. but their online prices are much better. I paid about 800 for toyo and goodyear tires(front and rear) nitto 555 is the cheapest tire I would put onto the car tho.

I ordered some from my local Discount Tire store yesterday. I'm not sure what distributor they called , but they had them in stock and sold them to me cheaper than onlinetires.com I'll have them by the end of the week.

Check treaddepot.com for Toyo T1-S. Cheaper, but not as cheap as other places, but they do have them in stock and I got mine in 2 days.

ares, got a web address for kaufman tire?

kaufman tire is a tire store, I *think* its local to the south east right now. but they run the online store www.treadepot.com. to compete with online places. it was nice for me, went to their warehouse, picked them up at online cost, no shipping charges, and they mounted them onto the rim.

then later I brought the car in to kaufman, and they give a big discount, unmounted all 4 tires, and all 4 of the stock tires, put TPM in and remounted the tires, all for like 60$. not bad.

Thanks for the replies, I already ordered once from onlinetires.com, and they wanted to cancel the order because they could not get the tires. I called again today, they should get back with me.

I will check out some of the other places mentioned.


Hey ZZtopp, what tires did you get from discount tire, the only tire they told me they had were Yokohama AVS sports?

I walked in and showed them a print out with prices from onlinetires.com for Toyo T1-S's, 245/35/19, and 275/35/19.

The manager made a few phone calls to distributors, found them in stock (exactly where I'm not sure), and matched the internet price. I don't know if all Discount Tire stores use the same distributors, so that may be the problem.

Cool.... thanks

It must depend on who you talk to, because I called the same discount tire today, and the guy told me he could get either the S-03's or the T1-S's, so we will see....

OK, still no tires.... Discount tire said they were both back ordered. So far I have tried:

www.treaddepot.com
www.tirerack.com
www.1010tires.com
www.onlinetires.com
...and also some local shops in the DFW area.

At this point I don't even care what kind of tires I get, I just want tires, my S-tune setup is here, and I wanted to install the brakes wheels and suspension all at the same time....

If I do not get the T1-S's or S-03's I would like to go cheaper though (I can find Perrelli's or Michilens, but they are higher priced).

Any other suggestions?

Have you considered 275/30 or 285/30 for the rears? Tirerack.com shows "Low Stock" on the 275 and "In Stock" on the 285, both Potenza SO3's. They also have Dunlop Sport S9000. I'm running the Dunlops right now on my 19's. At first I didn't care for them, especially compared to my 18" SO3's, but after wearing them in for a couple of hundred miles they feel fine. Hope this helps.

Hmmm.... I would like to stay away from 275/30, just too much of a difference from stock and it will cause problems with the TCS. I had not considered 285/30 (which would be a little closer). I have a 10" rear wheels so that may work.

I had decided to go with the 9000's, but now the 275/35 is out of stock on that also.

Good points, thanks.... I will consider.

285/35 is alot closer than 285/30... just ask N74DV, he's running those in the back without a problem.

agree, but around here and most other avg streets a 30 series tire is pretty scary!!! well same with a 35 but alittle more is better than nothing! I will be running 285/35/20 when my seven mods come in

The difference between sidewall heights of a 285/35 tire and a 275/35 tire are almost negligible. I think within .1 inch. Too lazy to check.

especially in houston, our roads are HORRIBLE ... ive pretty much told myself that im not allowed to drive on certain streets once i mount my 19s.