I am now after 25,000 miles need new tires for my 01 Lightning. I need help deciding between Nitto 555 or go with Goodyear eagle f1. I need all four. and where would be the best to get them cheap. Thank you for you help guys!

 

Discount tire has them for 209 each, shipped to your door.

 

Go nitto 555s in the front, and 555rs in the back. FTW.

31C

 

+1. That is what I did. $895 shipped I believe from discount tire direct.

-Mark

 

That's the setup I'm going with next month.

 

Same combo here...love em.

 

svtjulian,

You wouldn't happen to be here in South Florida. I just bought 2 today for $440. $440 included 7% tax, mounting and static balancing. I'm mounting them on Monday and having fun smoking my F1's until then.

Cesar

 

500 even for 2 F1's and certs....Discount tire.

I might have found some one that will sell me F1's for cost, I'll find out monday......... My guess for cost is around 150.00

 

same combo her but im not to sure that the 555R are necessary but the 555 are much better than the F1's in my opinion

 

I agree. I did notice that the Nitto's grab marginally better and last longer. That suprised me.

 

The if you think the 555s grab better then you will love the 555R. But they wont last very long at all.

31C

 

I have 555RII on the back of my 01 and F1's on the front. When the time is right I will go to 555 all around... I will not complain it works, good handling etc. The front one's were shot so Ford put the F1's on when I bought it... I am not seeing any where on the Nitto's yet and I have 8 thousand on them right now... I am sticking with Nitto...

Jeramie,

 

I own a set of 555r drag radials. I'm just comparing apples to apples.

 

Last I read on the board here, folks were having good luck with these.. Wonder if there was any updates from folks that had them. I notice that Hankooks seem to score a bit better than Toyos on tests (generally diff size from ours though).
GL - Jer

 

If I'm not mistaken the Car and Driver SHOW on spike, did a tire comparo with a bunch of diffrent tires and guess which tire won?
The Eagle F1's were the leader of the bunch...stay the same as when they come from the factory. There is a reason ford and I think chevy (corvettes) put these rubbers on thier performers.