Originally Posted by sixshooter
I have ran the stock michliens on the front since I bought the car. The goodyear eagles have been on since I wore out the rears. Tire rack customer service as well as the president of the local track stated different brands from front to rear would not hurt a thing. They both stated that the only concern is puting mismathced tires on the rear (meaning one kind on one side and another brand on the other side). I have ran 6 track events with the goodyear on the rear and the michliens on the front with very good results. Again the Firestone firehawk wide ovals were an emergency purchase only. I do now see that both Tirerack and 1010 tires list them as the #2 highest rated tire in the Ultra performance series.
Your 100% right, as long as the tires on the same axle match on a rwd car, no problems at all!! And Firestone sells a fine tire, they got a bad rap from ford with the explorers because of **** poor engineering on fords behalf, they did not fail on other vehicles. Ford should have specified a different spec for their explorer. They where also on rangers, no rangers flipped!