Hi Scotty, are forceum octa high performance radial tires any good? I was thinking about putting them on my 2003 crown Vic
thanks
I would upgrade to Goodyear or Michelins for that car.
What’s the price difference with other name brand tyres?
The ones he’s looking at are about 100$ Each Goodyear’s are about 130 each an coopers are about 150 each
I’d spend the extra $120 for 4 new Goodyears.. Are the Forceum tyres made in the USA? Or are they imported from Asia (or worse, China)?
They are made in Indonesia not sure on their quality
I am seeing a lot of new tires with odd names I don't recognize. I would bet that many of them are made in China. I think it all comes down to what kind of warranty comes with the tires, good or bad, USA or China.
I mean from my experience not all tires made outside of the US are bad,
like the Continentals on my Volvo made in Germany. {pear}:laugh:
The ones he’s looking at are from Indonesia an kumho are from South Korea, Goodyear mostly made in Canada and turkey, cooper usa mainly
Sure why not, I use kumho tires on my crown Vic an my tires are cheaper than those tires you’re looking at, however high performance tires you shouldn’t cheap out if you’re planning on doing things other than just driving normally, if you are planning on doing other things I’d suggest Goodyear eagles high performance not the best brand but good or cooper tires if you got money
Since you have a crown Vic, I was wanting to take the back two cats off, do you have any advice?
You could but you’d have to cut them off on these and weld a straight on, or replace the whole exhaust system, I’m not sure what you’re trying to do to your Vic are you trying to make more power? but that’s how you’d do that
Is the welding necessary? Could I just use an exhaust clamp or something like that. I want it to be louder.
You don’t need to weld it but that’s what I do just so that there’s no risk of exhaust leak of course weld them together when it’s off the car, but you can clamp it together just make sure they fit together snug before you clamp it down so take measurements and cut the pipe to size there are videos on YouTube with crown Vics to do so correctly, also just one tip, don’t add a cold air intake on these cars they damage these cars worse then most in short time a lot of guys say they hurt the intake manifold aka the money pit on these cars, all the cold air intakes do is make noise no real horsepower from them unless you tune it