moosestang

After reading many, many, many reviews of different tires. I've finally decided on the General grabbers in a 255/50/17. Anyone on here use these tires? There are a few chargers drivers and other performance oriented car owners with reviews on tirerack.com and they are all good. They are only .1 inch shorter than the stock pirellis, according to the manufacturers specs.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....e1=yes&place=4

I have over 25,000 miles on the pirellis and they are down to the outer wear bars (I assume those are wear bars on the outer tread blocks).

Nuke

Without comparing the construction to other, non-truck designed summer performance tires I'd say they sound pretty good. My only concern would be how the construction would affect handling as compared to that of a tire designed more towards the sedan/coupe.

moosestang

They do have a higher max load rating by 200lbs and they are 3 lbs heavier than the stock 235/55/17's. So they are beefy tires to say the least.

Xeno

i'd think they would ride/handle fine, and might be a little quieter. the sport truck tires i had (it was on a truck, though) had a very comfortable, quiet ride and still handled better than the stockers

kpaulhus

I just had Nexen HP Plus tires installed on my rears and they are no louder than the Kuhmos I had on there before. I wanted the beefy look but a sport truck tire was all I could find. THe tread doesnt look bad either.

whtcanbrwnd04u

Dude... your on stock tires? With a whipple? How? Do you NEVER go wot? ...

moosestang

I have drag radials as well, but they proved not to be a good street option. I'm pretty good at feathering the throttle in 1st and 2nd. From a 3rd gear roll my traction was fine, but you could tell it was on the verge of spinning and now at 25k miles the tires are loosing their grip.

A 275/45/17 would be nice, if such a tire existed.

5SPD07GT

my buddy has dunlop 9000s on the rear of his car. they are for a lightning i think. they look mean and he loves them

Legion5

based on relative tire width advantage, tread compound, tread design, price, the weight of the tires and the intend weight for their maximum performance, and other factors all taken from outside the tirerack website the General Grabbers will:

- Perform worse than the thinner stock Pirellis
- Wear Quicker than the stock Pirellis
- Cost More than the stock Pirellis

Using a tire that's not intended for it's purpose is just not very good. Chargers would use them because they don't have $78 Prielli tires.

If I were in your position I'd upgrade to some 18" wheels because actually the tire selection for the mustang's size range of tire in 17" diameter is terrible for a whippled car, there's almost no wider tires there.


Also tire rack reviews have been statistically proven by others and verified by myself and confirmed by others to be a lot of bull****. Because tire rack actually compiles the reviews into a statistical analysis you can compare that statistical analysis to scientific analysis from magziness who know what's what and almost a third of the time their reviews are opposed to reality. In fact the statistical best tire in all categories on tire rack is rated the 4th worst at everything. Reviews are a good starting point but they're not a reliable way of making wacky or serious decisions especially about this subject.

VistaGT

How it took you this long to get aftermarket tires with a whipple is ridiculous