Picked up a leftover 2024!

[Cucurú]

I saw this post today in Facebook and was thinking, damn he is asking way too much.

You got a brand new one for less the money

A bit too much. Has about everything but the Performance Pack. If it has that, maybe. There's lots of used 2023 Mach 1s around. I've seen them for 38K to 50K with Recaro seats, and less than 10K miles.

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[Tamadrummer88]

Congrats. I’m interested in your take of how it rides on the 20”tires.
About to research people‘s take on the 20” Goodyears vs the 19” Continentals vs the PP w/Magna & summer tires.

Thank you. I feel like the 20’s in particular are slept on, they are a really nice wheel, reminds me of the S550 Performance Pack wheels, just in a squared setup.

Tire size is a 265/35/20. Sidewall is a little thin for my tastes, but it rides pretty comfortably. Only downside is that size can get expensive to replace, but luckily you can get a slightly cheaper performing tire in that size. Tire Rack has the Goodyears at $350 a tire.

 

[Lwill_SB_Eco]

There are definitely deals to be had out there. Welcome back and enjoy!!

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Thank you. I feel like the 20’s in particular are slept on, they are a really nice wheel, reminds me of the S550 Performance Pack wheels, just in a squared setup.

Tire size is a 265/35/20. Sidewall is a little thin for my tastes, but it rides pretty comfortably. Only downside is that size can get expensive to replace, but luckily you can get a slightly cheaper performing tire in that size. Tire Rack has the Goodyears at $350 a tire.

Those 20s are nice for sure. When I bought my car, I test drove a premium that had them. To my butt dyno they seemed slightly harsher than the 19" contis. But not everyone cares about these things.

 

[mabcim]

Thank you. I feel like the 20’s in particular are slept on, they are a really nice wheel, reminds me of the S550 Performance Pack wheels, just in a squared setup.

Tire size is a 265/35/20. Sidewall is a little thin for my tastes, but it rides pretty comfortably. Only downside is that size can get expensive to replace, but luckily you can get a slightly cheaper performing tire in that size. Tire Rack has the Goodyears at $350 a tire.

The thinner sidewall was what I was wondering about, from a ride perspective. Thanks for the reply.

 

[mabcim]

Those 20s are nice for sure. When I bought my car, I test drove a premium that had them. To my butt dyno they seemed slightly harsher than the 19" contis. But not everyone cares about these things.

That is good info. Actually, that is exactly what I care about.
I also wonder if the contis are good enough tire. The 20s are Goodyear Eagles, which I haven’t been impressed with on previous cars; but they put ‘Eagle‘ on so many tires, so hard to know.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

That is good info. Actually, that is exactly what I care about.
I also wonder if the contis are good enough tire. The 20s are Goodyear Eagles, which I haven’t been impressed with on previous cars; but they put ‘Eagle‘ on so many tires, so hard to know.

40 sidewalls are always going to have a more forgiving ride than 35s. Generally Continentals are great tires. But the all season version that the factory uses on these car are just OK in terms of traction and wear. I personally think they ride nice and are reasonably quiet. But you could bo better. I think they ride nicer than the Eagles for what it's worth

But I'm also swapping them out for the PP wheels with Pirellis this weekend. Supposedly the new P zeros are much improved.

 

[mabcim]

40 sidewalls are always going to have a more forgiving ride than 35s. Generally Continentals are great tires. But the all season version that the factory uses on these car are just OK in terms of traction and wear. I personally think they ride nice and are reasonably quiet. But you could bo better. I think they ride nicer than the Eagles for what it's worth

But I'm also swapping them out for the PP wheels with Pirellis this weekend. Supposedly the new P zeros are much improved.

Agreed about 40 vs 35. The continentals being ‘just OK‘ is actually good to hear; better than them being junk.
Will be interesting to hear how you like the ride of Pirellis; keep me posted.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Agreed about 40 vs 35. The continentals being ‘just OK‘ is actually good to hear; better than them being junk.
Will be interesting to hear how you like the ride of Pirellis; keep me posted.

I used to absolutely hate Pirellis. I always found them very noisy, crappy in the rain and had short tread life.

But the new P zero versions are actually very highly rated. Even better than the factory Continental pro contacts.

 

[mabcim]

I used to absolutely hate Pirellis. I always found them very noisy, crappy in the rain and had short tread life.

But the new P zero versions are actually very highly rated. Even better than the factory Continental pro contacts.

Now I’m even more interested in how you like them.
My 2011 Ecoboost had and the tread life was bad, and they seemed to start to get hard if it was around 45° out,

 

[AZ_Ryan]

My 2011 Ecoboost had and the tread life was bad, and they seemed to start to get hard if it was around 45° out,

Any summer tire will get hard and lose traction around 50°.

The key difference here is we are comparing an all season tire to a summer tire.

 

[mabcim]

Any summer tire will get hard and lose traction around 50°.

The key difference here is we are comparing an all season tire to a summer tire.

Agreed. My 2011 had all season Pirellis (at least claimed to be) and they acted more like a summer tire and wore bad; so agreeing with your comment about older Pirellis not being too great.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Agreed. My 2011 had all season Pirellis (at least claimed to be) and they acted more like a summer tire and wore bad; so agreeing with your comment about older Pirellis not being too great.

Gotcha. I'll let you know what I think. If you go to www.tirerack.com you can look at all the ratings on different tires.

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