Bridgestone RE980.
New all season ultra high performance tire.
Rating 500 AA. A.
I have used over winter and I find them the second best tire I have had next to summer Bridgestone RE-11’s.
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These are the OEM tires for the 2016s that come without the summer tire option.
They are supreme hot trash.
If they are the best tire you've used other than RE-11's you don't get out much.
OP:
The tire size reads like this:
245/35/18
245, is section width in millimeters(how wide the tire is)
So it's 24.5 cm
the SECOND number, is the measure of sidewall. It's a PROFILE ratio. That number is the height of the PROFILE(sidewall). It is obtained by turning that number into a percent and multiplying the SECTION WIDTH(first number).
So in this case it is 0.35 multiplied by 245 equals 85.75 mm.
Last number is literally what size wheel should it be mounted on. In this example it is 18 inches.
As for tire suggestions, it's all about what you're looking for in a tire. I have a set of MPSS's and personally kinda fucking hate them. All the drawbacks of an extreme performance tire(RE-71R, StarSpec ZII) without the performance. If I am going to be cucked into having to wait for a tire to warm up to do something, I better be blown away by performance, and it's plain not there.
I also have expectations. I thought these would just a small step down from the "almost R-comps" and figured I'd get a slightly more "easier to live with" tire for a trade-off in ultimate traction and with the way the fanboys uncontrollably orgasm audibly 'MICHELIN PILOT POWER SSSSSSSUPERSPORTTTTTSSSSSS' every time someone asks about tire suggestions I figured I'd give them a try. Should have stuck with my gut.
You want what most people want I take it? A tire that lasts a long time and isn't super expensive. The wife has a set of Continental ExtremeContactSports for her summer wheels and they're pretty alright IMO. She drives roughly twice as much as I do(plus I split duties between my GTI and my suck10) and they're holding up real well. They're very comparable to the jizzinducing MPSSs that everyone acts like is a gift from the tiregods to man and cheaper. Other bonus that no one typically pays attention to is Continental makes really low weight tires which is a bonus here.
As for size?
If you went out to get a 8.5" wide wheel why would you fist yourself in the anus by getting 235s?
245/40 won't rub unless you're slammed with out the fender screw mod, and my 245/35s(which is a hard as fuck size to find btw) definitely don't rub at all.
For width 225s are good for 7.5" wheels
235s=8"
245=8.5"
And before everyone says "BUT STEDDYBRO U R WRONG BRO, MY BRO, BROSEPH HAS 245s ON HIS ULTRALEGGERAS AND THEY FIT FINE BRO."
They fit, but they're actually ballooned on there and creating a smaller contact patch. So your bro paid more money for more tire that he's not using. That's smart.
If anything, A size "too" small is better than a size "too" big on a wheel.
That's known as stretching.
Anything more than that and you're gonna have a bad time. Driving on your sidewalls is bad. If you want to know what happens, go deflate your tires to like 15 psi and drive around for an hour at highway speeds and see what happens.(Don't do this, you'll ruin your tires and possibly catch a horrible case of the 'deads'. Real bad disease where you become 'unalive'.)
Tires are the only performance item that can shave literal seconds off a lap time with them being the only change. Hell go to a drag strip and watch what cars trapping 110 MPH with grip are getting on their ETs when they put down 1.5s 60' times with traction. That's tires.