Howdy! Just bought my first Prius!

Welcome!

 

Perfect!

 

Gratz, an welcome

 

I definitely recommend doing a little research on what LRR tires are available before pulling the trigger there. The prius seems to be pretty sensitive to losing MPG if you put the wrong type of tires on it.

On this forums we see a lot of people disappointed and complaining that their Prius is barely getting 40 MPG whereas others here are easily hitting 50+. In 99% of these cases they've got an undesirable tire choice.

There are choices out there where you can get a wider high performance tire and only lose 1 or 2 MPG, but if you just go for one at random you could lose 6 to 8 MPG. I recommend getting used to driving your Prius and establishing what sort of MPG you're getting before upgrading the tires.

BTW. 195/55/15 is a little too small (rolling circumference), it will make your speedo read too high. In Australia and much of Europe 195/160/15 is the standard size and within about 1% of the US standard 185/65/15 tire.

I'm running 195/60/15 in Bridgestone Ecopia EP100, these give good performance and really excellent fuel economy (actually better than the stock tires). This one is a "summer tire" because it's always hot here, use the Ecopia EP422 for an all seasons equivalent.

 

Sounds like a heck of a deal. Enjoy the ride and welcome to PC

 

Very good deal! Congrats!

 

I am running Kumho KR21's. This is not a LRR tire. Runs great and still avg 47. Was avg 48 so took a 1 mpg hit.
But got such a good deal I couldn't pass them by. Kumho makes a very nice tire.

 

Dam good deal im new also welcome.

 

I remember years ago when I first considered the Prius, I set down and figured the pay back amount vs price of fuel.

Of course the Prius was a few dollars cheaper, but it wasn't that long ago. What I figured was that if gas was $3.00 @ gallon, the Prius would pay for the difference of overall cost within four years of time versus a small non hybrid car. I did not figure any maintenance, just fuel cost's and used 40 MPG for the base line.

As we well know, gas here is well over $3.00 @ gallon in the states, and higher elsewhere. If you think the U.S. has expensive gas, go to Europe. It is really high over there.

 

Small correction to Uart's post, in Europe the standard tyre is 195/55/16 but for improved stability go to 205/55/16 or 205/50/16. There is also a bigger choice of tyres at 205/55/16 than the OEM size and they are also about 25% cheaper.

 

Ok that's interesting. Since most of the region specific stuff is the same in Australia as the UK I thought the tyres would be the same too. Here in Australia the standard wheel/tyre on the Gen2 is 195/60/15.

BTW. I'm pretty sure the standard Prius in US has 15" rims.

 

Yes the US rims are 15 inch, but I believe they run 185 section tyre,s as OEM so no wounder they complain of bad handling.

I run 205/55/16 tyres.