Exactly!
Which leads back to my premise:
Correct tire pressure for the vehicle the tires installed on, plus good alignment = a safe handling car!
Iāve had decent luck with Uniroyal, which Iāve had a few times
They wore evenly, tracked straight, lasted a long time, and so forth
They certainly arenāt the best tires, but theyāre also not the garbage some people say they are
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I have had 2 cars that came with Pirellis. Eh, they were OK. They aged out faster than they wore out but the same could be said of Goodyears and my last set of Toyos. All 3 brands rode and handled well but became so hard they were unsafe before the tread reached the wear bars.
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I have a friend that grew up in Saigon in the 1950s-1970s and she spoke French. Very common she said.
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Back in high school, a buddy of mine bought a used Caravelle convertible from a used car lot. It looked great on the outside, but had a rusted undercarriage.
The rust was apparently pretty bad. Within a week of buying it, the car suddenly began to fold in half, in a āVā shape, where the front seat area was nearly on the ground.
The country was French colony until 1954 with Hanoi as the capital so speaking French would make sense.
My Vietnamese coworker born in the late 50s knew a little French but more Englishā¦and ALL the swear words! He escaped the communists in the mid 70s via a river boat that sailed to the ocean and ended up on a small islandā¦ not sure which Fiji maybeā¦ where he stayed until he could come to the US.
ā¦ and that is why baguette-type French bread is still popular with the Vietnamese, and why Vietnam is the only Asian country with a significant number of coffee drinkers. I still recall from my childrhood years hearing news coverage about āFrench Indochinaā, which is the old name for that nation.
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Oooh, yeah, really good strong coffee with sweet cream!
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Mine was close: hit the brakes, front frame collapsed, rusted out.
My favorite 13" tires, which we had on our 1988 Corolla and 1991 Tercel were the Goodyear Corsa II. I forget when those tires were sold new, but we owned those cars in the 1990s to early 2000s. In fact, that body style has aged well. I still see 1988-1992 Corollas on the road here, though they are becoming somewhat rare due to age and mileage.
In fact, this lovely car was recently posted on Craigslist here.
If it had less than 200,000 miles, Iād consider buying it, as I remember how comfortable this model was, and how much fun it was to drive. Unfortunately, at 270,000 miles, it is probably used up, and the price of nearly $3k is just too dear for a car with this many miles.
Cochinchina/Vietnam was part of French Indochina from the mid-1800s up to mid-20th century, so hardly its original name.
I donāt know about their coffee. Off base, I only drank Ba Muoi Ba, we pronounced it bamy ba, Vietnamese Beer, insisted it be served with the cap on the bottle.
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Iām biased, but Iāve always thought that Corolla era boasts the modelās most visually appealing body style. The automatic transmission version is underpowered, but the manual transmission version is quite perky. $3k used for a 270k miles version seems too pricey to consider, unless perhaps the engine has been rebuilt and it sports a manual transmission.
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Since youāre selling your 1992 Corolla, whatās going to replace it? 
The only other body styles that compare in styling excellence imho is BMW 3-series sedanās. BMW definitely got that styling spot on. But no plans to sell the Corolla, just got it back on the road a few weeks ago, enjoying having it again.
I have a question. Are the original tires on new cars the same as that model of replacement tires?
The Contental tires that were on my Nissan Versa when I bought it new in 2018 were down to the wear bars at 31,000 miles. Seems like a pretty short life on such a light car. One of them also had a slow leak that I could never find, about 1 lb per week. Replaced them with Michelin and all is well. Barely worn at 25,000 miles.
No, they are usually not exactly the same.
Doesnāt seem like a good way to sell replacement tires. Didnāt even consider replacing them with the same type tires.
Dealerships often sell numerous different brands. Definitely will change to a tire with more wet traction than on the car when delivered. Then, when taking your vehicle in for an oil change, rotation is free.
The manufacturer doesnāt sell tires so they have no skin in the game and the dealers are independent sellers so theyāll sell you whatever makes them money.
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