Found some good cheap tires

[Uber_Otter]

I have 127k miles on my 06 Xa now. I buy tires online and install them myself with a harbor freight manual tire changer (good for steelies only without mods). I drive aggressively, daily. After going through a lot of cheap tires (49$-70$) I usually find out why they are cheap, weak sidewalls, hard compounds, noisy, some would show up with not much tread depth. But I mount them, grind them down and order different. These I happy enough with to post about.

Achilles ATR sports
http://www.onlinetires.com/products/...rt+85v+bw.html

Strong sidwalls, quiet, great tread pattern and depth. Verry grippy, the coumpound is soft, They may only last 25k but at $52 bucks I'm good with that.

I normally buy the stock size 185/60 15 but I went with 195/55 15s this time. 10mm wider and radius decrease of less that 2%. You don't want to increase your diameter and lose torque. I tried 195/60 15s once and the car felt like I was carrying lead in the back.