After a bit of thought, and some serious research on here (MASSIVE thanks to Top_Fuel and Mark especially) I decided that the stock sized tires weren't for me. As a refresher, I got my 2019 from Carvana and they paid to replace the worn down Dunlops with new Bridgestone Potenza RE92's. To be completely honest, I hated the RE92's just as much as the Dunlops....both were very squirrelly on even the slightest curves and in my opinion not so great in the rain either. So I decided a major-ish change was in order.
After the aforementioned massive research, I boiled it down to 2 ways of doing this. The first was to copy the excellent formula Top_Fuel did with converting to 15x6.5's + the nice Bridgestone tires combined with Konig Helium rims. What turned me off to this combo was the Helium's real reputation for not being all that stout. As I live in one of the pothole capitols of the world (The Bronx, NY...not to mention most all of NYC really...)Those rims wouldn't hold up too well. Strike one.
I then went with just slightly wider 14x6" Primax 772 Machined Wheel (14 x 6. inches /4 x 100 mm, 38 mm Offset, 5" Backspace) with a tire I've used many times on my older Toyota Corolla's 175 65R 14 Westlake RP18 tires. These tires have proven to me to be long wearing, great in rain and snow and pretty quite in operation all for $45.00 each. Time will tell on actual performance from gas mileage to wear, but I'm confident it will work out fine. Total weight for the combo is 32.4 pounds, 16.4 for the rims + 16 for the tires. Total cost to me including all the necessary bits like Hub centric rings, lug nuts and new TPMS stems as well as tire install on the rims at Mavis Tire in the Bronx was a pretty great $589.00, tax included
Wish me luck, all of this is getting done in less than 6 days
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For the record, here are the links to this combo if anyone's actually interested in it:
Rims:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Tires:
https://www.amazon.com/Westlake-Seas...2J8ZF0DA03BQJB
Some pics for you as well: