I've really enjoyed my Firestone Indy 500s. Plenty of grip and they give confidence in the rain.
Pros: plenty of grip
Cons: confidence in rain
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I'm waiting on my factory tires to get a little more wear on them before I replace them. However, when I do I know I'm going with a much better set of Firestone tires then what the factory put.
Pros: much better set
I replaced my great condition hankook run flats with cheapo firestone weathergrips and they are better in every way. Warm weather, cold weather, rain, snow.. Better traction and ride comfort across the board.
Pros: better traction, ride comfort
I like firestone firehawk indy 500. summer tire. sticky. reminds me of the old yokohama S.Drive. Plenty of grip wet or dry, and in dry it's the only one that's let me put down full power coming out of a corner without going all spastic or lighting the traction control lamp.
Pros: plenty of grip, sticky
Cons: lasts relatively OK
Vehicle:
MINI
Put Firestone Destination AT2s on mine. Great tire and good meaty look. The positive is that fuel economy only went down by 2 to 24.7 from 26.7.
Pros: good meaty look
Cons: fuel economy decrease
Vehicle:
Hyundai
I have had the Winterforce ones for a couple years now. They seem to be good tires.
Pros: good tires
2013 cooper s bought new. Came with conti all season runflats, couldn't put down power. No grip. Harsh.
Not a month later went to Michelin A/S pilot sport all-seasons.. better, but still couldn't mash the gas coming out of a corner.
5 years later went to the ones I still run today, the Firestone Indy 500. Posh ride, great grip, and I can put full power in 2nd coming out of a corner. Behaves identical to the Yokohama S.Drives I used to have on my Rx-8. Where I live it doesn't even get down to 45\*F so I don't worry about all-seasons anymore. These do magnificent in the wet, too.
Pros: posh ride, great grip
Cons: no grip, harsh
Vehicle:
MINI
The Firestone FT140 are annoyingly loud.
Cons: annoyingly loud
Vehicle:
Toyota Camry
I wanted to write this because there are almost no reviews on this tire online. Firestone claims it's a big improvement over the previous generation. Traction is good on wet and dry roads. Slippage prediction is also decent. Road noise is fine. Ride comfort (in terms of feeling the road) is really good. Steering responsiveness is ABYSMAL. It's like driving an aquarium on top of a trampoline. Due to the fact the sidewall seems to be made of marshmallows, it's quite terrifying doing any aggressive driving. Highway driving, making turns specifically, is terrifying. Overall: Do not buy unless it's for rears only, or you're driving a car that is exceptionally light weight. If the steering and body movement responsiveness was fixed, this would be an excellent tire. Sadly the responsiveness is so bad, the tire feels legitimately dangerous.
Pros: good traction, decent slippage prediction
Cons: abysmal steering responsiveness
Vehicle:
Infiniti
i'd pretty much replace all firestone tires with a better brand.
Pros: better brand
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