I bought some Mickey Thompson Street Comps 305/35r20 for the rear of my 2012 5.0 and thought I'd share my experience from July until I had to take them off for Winter/Cold weather.
First of all they are a fantastic looking tire with very deep tread and tear it up in the rain. Funny quick story when I went to get them mounted it was raining and the tire tech was either really dumb or trying to sell me tires b/c he goes hope you live close and don't have to drive on the highway b/c you will crash with these tires. I go why, they should be great in rain and he goes no they won't at all they are Mickey Thompsons! Anyways rain = great. Looks = great. Also I noticed a significant improvement in straight line traction on the street. I can almost go from a dig and hook my tuned, OR exhaust automatic car. I mashed it several times right after about a half throttle take off and it stuck all the way through the shift into 2nd. A much improved hook over the 245 General GMax tires if the temp is about about 70 degrees. Now here is the bad. If the temp is under I'd say 60 then these things absolutely suck. That's why I'll wait until like mid March or after before I put them back on. Also I noticed going around a round about kind of hard it started slipping pretty easily. I thought the tire was really low on pressure or just maybe because they were still pretty new but I've found they just don't like sideways action. It would be easy to do donuts in them if you want so maybe that's a positive
Well that's about it. Just to repeat the straight line traction on these is really good if you ask me for a street tire and rain is fantastic along with their good looks. Pic for reference. Let me know if you have any questions. Good budget tire
First of all they are a fantastic looking tire with very deep tread and tear it up in the rain. Funny quick story when I went to get them mounted it was raining and the tire tech was either really dumb or trying to sell me tires b/c he goes hope you live close and don't have to drive on the highway b/c you will crash with these tires. I go why, they should be great in rain and he goes no they won't at all they are Mickey Thompsons! Anyways rain = great. Looks = great. Also I noticed a significant improvement in straight line traction on the street. I can almost go from a dig and hook my tuned, OR exhaust automatic car. I mashed it several times right after about a half throttle take off and it stuck all the way through the shift into 2nd. A much improved hook over the 245 General GMax tires if the temp is about about 70 degrees. Now here is the bad. If the temp is under I'd say 60 then these things absolutely suck. That's why I'll wait until like mid March or after before I put them back on. Also I noticed going around a round about kind of hard it started slipping pretty easily. I thought the tire was really low on pressure or just maybe because they were still pretty new but I've found they just don't like sideways action. It would be easy to do donuts in them if you want so maybe that's a positive
Well that's about it. Just to repeat the straight line traction on these is really good if you ask me for a street tire and rain is fantastic along with their good looks. Pic for reference. Let me know if you have any questions. Good budget tire
