wanderfalke

Flat tires on a porsche are such a hard issue. I have a tire that loses about one psi a week the car is so low and the clearance above the wheel is so tight it is very hard to check for a nail or screw when it is sitting in my garage. Makes me wonder what i would do at night on the road if I had a flat with a tire plug kit.

How did the OP receive a new car with goodyears I thought it was zero's all the way.

Porsche_nuts

I dread the day I get a flat.

CSK 911 C4S

I noticed that there were quite a few 911's with Goodyears but the wide body cars that require the 305 on the rear still getting the PO's.

mtbscott

I have replaced 3 rear tires total on my C2 with 19's (one pair from wear, one that got a nail then bubbled from running low). From TireRack I got them for around $335 each (Yikes! I see they're now listed for $396 each!). They have a warehouse in Shreveport, LA so regular UPS is overnight to my house.
Local tire shop I use mounts and balances them for $25 each so much, much cheaper than what OP paid.

As far as suing someone because you had a flat and didn't have a spare? Good luck with that, really silly. The first car I owned with summer performance tires and no spare was a an E46 M3. Since then I've had another 9 cars without spares, it's just the way it is nowadays. I've only had to call for help once, I'll take my chances.

lunarx

Base models, with the 19"wheels get Goodyears.

mcipseric

joys of driving...

Larry Cable

A good reason not to get a base model ...

brad@tirerack.com

It sure would be nice to see car manufacturers put spares in the car again. I get SO many calls from frustrated customers looking for the spare that they thought was the there when they bought the car.

Feel free to call me in the future. I had those OEM Goodyears in stock. Delivery would have likely been overnight, and for a heck of a lot less than a dealership!

mtbscott

Damon, if you saw my post, I mentioned having bought 3 of the OEM rears from you for around $335, now they're $396! Why the huge price hike?

brad@tirerack.com

Our prices go up or down all the time based on the market cost to us on the tire. Market may have gone up a bit on these. I show past pricing to be be pretty consistent at $396 each.

Gofishracing

Damon includes an eggroll with each order- The shipments come that fast!!

chuck911

I've been buying tires from Tire Rack since before the internet. I want to say since they were advertising in the back of R&T in the 1980's. Anyway, long time. Always great service, great prices, and most importantly, they always had the info to help pick the best tires. They have the volume, so you're always getting nice sticky smooth-riding fresh tires, not ones losing grip sitting in someone's shop six months or longer. Nowaday's they are so big they have warehouses across the country and drop-ship to thousands of installers. Maybe the OP's answer is to just carry Damon's Tire Rack business card in his wallet?

Tapeworm

I wish Porsche would actually design the car for run flats for exactly this reason. A GTR was designed from the start for run flats, so the suspension is tuned for the stiffer sidewall and the tires work really well - ask any GT3 owner who has tried to keep up with a GTR on a track - and the tires are carrying so much more weight.

BMW owners on the other hand can't wait to get rid of the stock run flats, I put this down to the suspension not being designed for them and basically they were a marketing driven option, not an engineering decision.

Anyone who doesn't like run flats really should try a GTR to see what they can do - I never had any complaints when I had one....

TSpyder

Uh, more like 3k mi on the rears due to the original ('91) toe specs. The running joke was that you changed tires as frequently as oil

Arson gave way to legal action. Subsequent class-action suit got me several free sets of rear tires. And, changed rear toe specs got tread life up to 6k mi. Hence the 9k mi I got out of the OEM's on the 991 looks pretty good to me

Spyder

todd92

I got rid of the run flats on my GT-R as fast as I could. They sucked and rode like Flintstone wheels. Run flats are an abomination on any car. As for designing the suspension for them, good luck. At least MB and Porsche haven't drunk the Kool-Aide like BMW did. It's one reason I don't consider BMW's anymore.