At slightly over 34,000 miles one of the Integritys developed a leak. My wife took the car to a tire shop and they told her that the tire was leaking at several points along the tread; she actually saw many small bubbles emerging from many points. With less than 6000 miles left on the treads I decided to get a new set of tires. Since, believe it or not, I was actually very pleased with the stock tires (not available locally), I bought set of Goodyear Viva2 tires. These are Canadian made tires with a 440 tread wear index, and according to a couple of websites, they are LRR certified. Although these tires perform as well as the stock tires, a 2-3 mpg drop has resulted aver the last four tankfulls.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jamarimutt @ Mar 29 2006, 06:03 PM) [snapback]231930[/snapback]</div> You should just about be getting them broken in now, give it a couple more tanks, I experienced the same thing with the HydroEdges but am now doing as well as I ever did with the Integrities.
New tires topic was a recurring item a little over a year ago or so. Tires have to be broken in. The edges on the tread need to be rounded down a little before you will see a return of FE. After that it is smooth sailing.
