My Insight needs a new set of tires. This is understandable after 84,000 miles.
This will be my second replacement set. The first lasted about 42,000 miles (again understandable), and I had a choice of original equipment Bridgestone Potenza RE92s or Michelin MXV4 Energy, and nothing else. I wanted the Michelins but they cost twice as much as the Bridgestones, so I went with the originals even though I regard them to be one of the weakest points on the Insight. Whatever I had selected, however, would have had to be special ordered, and it took me over a week to get them.
Well, now I need new tires again, and there's a major problem. Michelin no longer markets 165/65R14 tires in the U.S., and Bridgestone is back-ordered on the RE92s until (at least) December 5 nationwide. None of the tire stores or discount houses around here are even able to ORDER them at this time, and this is a genuine pain in the tuchus for yours truly.
I've searched the internet and I can find a whole multitude of 165/65R14 tires, in Latvia and Czechoslovakia and Malaysia and just about everywhere else in Eurasia, but NOTHING in the U.S. of A. or even Canada. There are rumors that I could get Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires in this size, but I live in Orlando and that'd be a little strange, don't you think?
Hell, if I lived in the U.K. I could even get Dunlop SP4s.
Hey, in the words of crapshooters the world over, baby needs a new pair of shoes! What's an Insight owner to do?
This will be my second replacement set. The first lasted about 42,000 miles (again understandable), and I had a choice of original equipment Bridgestone Potenza RE92s or Michelin MXV4 Energy, and nothing else. I wanted the Michelins but they cost twice as much as the Bridgestones, so I went with the originals even though I regard them to be one of the weakest points on the Insight. Whatever I had selected, however, would have had to be special ordered, and it took me over a week to get them.
Well, now I need new tires again, and there's a major problem. Michelin no longer markets 165/65R14 tires in the U.S., and Bridgestone is back-ordered on the RE92s until (at least) December 5 nationwide. None of the tire stores or discount houses around here are even able to ORDER them at this time, and this is a genuine pain in the tuchus for yours truly.
I've searched the internet and I can find a whole multitude of 165/65R14 tires, in Latvia and Czechoslovakia and Malaysia and just about everywhere else in Eurasia, but NOTHING in the U.S. of A. or even Canada. There are rumors that I could get Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires in this size, but I live in Orlando and that'd be a little strange, don't you think?
Hell, if I lived in the U.K. I could even get Dunlop SP4s.
Hey, in the words of crapshooters the world over, baby needs a new pair of shoes! What's an Insight owner to do?