It doesn't need mudflaps...

 

Do they all come with these tires? I remember the 4RX we were interested in came with something else. I insisted them to swap out for Michelin or I wouldn't buy it. They did. Fortunately the dude that did it didn't know which wheels go where, he gave us the luxury wheels along with the Michelin. Looks like your lease went up to 750. Good tires are well worth it though.

 

Haha, yeah all the ones I saw had those tires

 

That seems to be the way that the assembly-line process works. Unless the vehicle is designed by the manufacturer for a specific brand and type of tire, as was the case with some Corvettes, what usually happens is that the manufacturer will contract with certain tire companies to provide X number of tires, at a negotiated cost, for the factory, in the size(s) the vehicle requires. A certain batch of the production-line will use tires of one brand...the next run might have another brand, etc.....sometimes, if they run out of one brand early, they will use whatever is available at any given moment at the factory and fits the vehicle. Steve just happened to get one of a production-run that was built with a bunch of those Nexen brand tires.

I've had two Buicks with Continental Contipro-Contacts and, IMO, that was an excellent tire.....as good as the Michelins I've had. This Encore GX I have now, as do many of them, came with Korean Hankooks (not surprising, since it is built in Korea)...they are OK, but not as good as the Continentals.

 

Yeah every car I have bought they come with an assortment of tires and it’s kind of luck of the draw what you get.

 

Look what I found! Archive 1988 Lincoln Conti Car and Driver article since that car gets brought up a lot on here lol:

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews...y-the-numbers/

 

I will never get tired of seeing your magnificent LC.

Sreve, congratulations on the van (?)

Glad you have it and the ordeal is over. May your next vehicle purchase or lease go more smoothly.

 

Yep, at least it’s over!

 

Hoping for a full review thread.

We only got teaser pics of the interior.
Plus, I'm interested in how the low range ev works and how practical it actually is.

Inquiring minds want to know. Lol

The Lincoln Conti was a nice car for it's time.

Ditto, it really is a looker.

 

On some cars mudflaps are a must. My Durango needed them badly and so does my Tesla. The Tesla is so bad it flings stuff all over the side of the car and is a pain to get off when washing. Almost all owners of the refresh get some sort of mudflaps because of it.

My Michelins on my Tesla are loud for about 1,000 miles and then quiet down. I just replaced my front tires last week and they are annoyingly loud so may they will quiet down over time. I will say I’m not one to skimp on tires so if the reviews on those tires suck, they would be gone tomorrow, not just for noise but for everything else too like bad weather traction, etc.

 

For a special car with such a nice paint job I would PPF the whole thing too. Two of my cars are fully wrapped and it’s nice not having to worry about paint swirls or my kids accidentally scratching it.

 

They might quiet down before you spend that money on tires, remember how mine did when I swapped rims. At first I was like WTF.

I might give it a month, or whatever. Congrats, it looks sharp!

 

the giant "XPEL" logos on the wheel covers are a hint.

i would never take off mudflaps already on a vehicle. may not really 'need' them but they do lessen dirt/stones flung up onto the body or even wheel arches to lessen noise.

 

Yes, totally agree.
Nice. This car deserves it. Looks like it's in a right place for the work. Are those white reflection from neon lights on ceilings? I've seen many places have this reflection. Must provide nice lighting for them to see.

 

Oh I will, going to clean it up and all today and will post a bunch of pics and do a thread on it tonight.
Not an issue on this vehicle, I've had two of them without mudflaps alreadty. If they were nice molded painted ones I would leave them, but these are ugly black ones that say "CHRYSLER" on them

The other thing I thought of is we are primarily driving it in full EV mode so there is no engine noise to cancel the tire noise out...

I'm kind of a tire snob lol

Not necessarily. Most shops carry multiple lines of PPF, and it could be that the shop just has those tire covers that were provided as a perk from Xpel. Those covers are for polishing anyways not for PPF installation.

These are really ugly. I will post a pic.