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Stingraynut:
Hi everyone, it's many years since I was active on this forum!
I live in Cairns, bought my C4 in 2003 and I had great help from members here in the early days, I hope you can help me again.
Due to ill health my vette has sat idle and the Nexen tyres are now 15 years old.
It seems that our 275/40/ZR17 tyres are very hard to get.

Unfortunately I have to sell the car and so I don't want to put very expensive tyres on it.
I have found 3 brands in this size - Maxtrek M1, Federal ST1 and Kumho Ecsta Pa51
But the speed ratings are all R not ZR - will that cause problems for insurance or passing Roadworthy?

Does anyone have any recommendations or bad review for the above or something else?

thanks

Rob
http://robhealey.com.au/Corvette/

Stingraynut:
I've bought four Kumho Ecsta PA51 from Tyresales.com.au.
They're rated W98 which is 270kph.
$1224 shipped to Bridgestones  a local Cairns tyre depot, fitted and balanced.
In case it helps anyone

Vettech:
I replaced C4 90 back before Covid.

A member up in NCLE recommended these as they handled wet & dry, did Not have high road noise and were good wearing.

I got Kumho Ecsta 4X - 275/40 ZR17 98W

I asked an aquaintance at Minto TyrePro to get me a set and quote for supply, fit, bal & align. (Plus disposal fee)
BUT i advised him I would reject tyres if older than 6 months, they turned up after a few weeks, fresh only 3 months old

And from memory under $800. These handle well, they will light up if pushed, but are quiet and feel great in the wet.

Made in Korea - so far so good.

David12345:
Wow! I can't seem to find any match with mine in my country. sneak a peek at this site

gtc:

--- Quote from: David12345 on September 08, 2022, 10:19:24 PM ---Wow! I can't seem to find any match with mine in my country. sneak a peek at this site

--- End quote ---

Which then begs the question: what country is that?

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