Just ordered my Nitto 555's 235/40/18
 

$650 mounted and balanced, allignment and taxes out the door price, is this good?

also, can you current/previous Nitto 555 owners comment on them? good or bad? thanks.

Dunno about the pricing, but I recently did a search for Nitto 555 and the feedback was pretty good. I'm getting a set of wheels in a week or so and they will have 555's on them, so I can provide more feedback then.

Nitto 555's are awesome for the price. I was just quoted $553 for 235/40/18's installed. I heard that I could push and get them installed for less than that though.

I was thinking about getting Falken 512's but I heard that they suffer quality issues... How do you compare Nitto 555 to Falken 512's?

thx.

Nitto 555 awesome summer tires. Horrible on snow.

Falken 512s are good all season tires.

I had Nitto 555s and 450s for summer and Michelin Alpine snow tires for winter. Love Nittos.

I have the Nitto 450's which are a step below the 555's. I drove with them in the snow and they weren't that bad. They have more tread than the 555's. They are excellent in the rain and pretty sticky when launching on dry pavement.

What shop did you get that quote from? That seems like an awesome deal.

Local Discount tire in Raleigh NC.

The NT 555 is a great tire. I have 26k on mine and close to half the tread is still there. The 512 falls short of the Nitto.

I got 225/50/17's on my stock 01 rims. I love them. The only tire I would have gotten instead would have been the Yoko AVS ES100's. Iv'e got them on the civic and they are bad a$$.

I paid $95/tire from www.tirerack.com order 4 and no shipping. $12 per tire to mount at a local tire kingdom. $428 total.

My Yoko's were 195/50/15 $53/tire. Same as before buy 4 no shipping.

i'm ordering a set of rims and tires and i have a few choices of tires, there are 225/40, 235/40 and 245/40-18's. the 200-numbers represent tread with but what does that mean and how does it translate into performance? is 245 a better performing tire than a 235 or 225?

Just to update this post, I have been running the Nitto 555s for around 1 month now and loved every minute. I dont see myself buying anything else but them for the rest of my car owning life. For the price, they are unbeatable, I can stick my fingernail in to the thread they are so sticky. They also look very nice and shine like none other when you hit them with meguiars gel shine.

Nitto 555 ownage!

i just got some nitto 555 245/35/20 on my car... so far i LOVE them.... this coming from the stock re92s.... heh...im in atlanta so not much worry for snow.... but on dry and wet ground... they are perfect.... handles so much better and there is no increase in noise.....

somebody correct me if i'm wrong... but the 200s number is the width of the tire... the middle number is the profile size (as a percentage of width)... and the last number is the diameter..... hope this helps...
i dont think it has anything to do with the tread.... just how wide the tire is...

Interesting thread for me. I have nitto 555 (18's) and I don't know if i need something better or if I just have to live with what I have.

My max is 5 speed supercharged, and i can't get traction in 1st with these tires. The thing is i don't know if that would change no matter what tires i had on.

You guys all seem to think its wonderful. Besides launching how does it hold in the corner? Always feels to me like it wants to break loose....

Interesting thread for me. I have nitto 555 (18's) and I don't know if i need something better or if I just have to live with what I have.

My max is 5 speed supercharged, and i can't get traction in 1st with these tires. The thing is i don't know if that would change no matter what tires i had on.

You guys all seem to think its wonderful. Besides launching how does it hold in the corner? Always feels to me like it wants to break loose....

hrm.. well i been coming from the stock re92s, so the nitto's were a great improvement in all areas....they handle perfect for me in corners..there probably are better tires, but they will probably cost more.... i've heard some good things about the new toyo proxes4.... if u wanna maybe look into that...

I've got 555s right now because I didn't have the money to buy another set of T1-Ss right now. I'd classify them as 'good' they have performed well in wet and dry, not as well as the T1-Ss do, but then again they are a bunch cheaper too. I've got no real complaints about them, they just aren't as awesome as I'm used to with my T1-S.