[npritchard777]

Thanks for the positive comments all. I'm pretty happy with them, even the Summitomo tires (at least for the price). The car had been sitting for six months or more with maybe a quick drive to the gas station at some point in there.

I finally got around to replacing the radiator, all the brake rotors & pads, and these wheels. When I fired it up after replacing the radiator I kept hearing a knock or a rattle coming from under the car somewhere. I got it up on jack stands and traced it back to the heat shield on the passenger side cat. Looks like a tack weld had broken or something but the heat shield was loose. So then I dug out the Corsa cat-back I've had sitting in the box for more a few years and took it to my local exhaust shop. When he cut the original exhaust from the passenger side cat, a couple nice big chunks of catalytic converter came out too. We checked the driver side, which was intact but really black. So I've got a couple new cats on order and should get them installed Thursday. Maybe I'll actually pass that CA emissions test this time...

-Nate