I found 19" snow tires Oct 2010

[coolerkevin]

Hello all. After 5 days of searching and calling Chrysler I finally found 19" snow tires for my 2009 Journey.

I needed 225 55 R19. I got Falcon 235 55 R19 snow tires ($1258 balanced and installed) from Volco Tires on Bridgeport in Richmond BC. They say that it is a pretty available tire and they had 4 at the store and another 12 in the warehouse.

Now the search:

I tried Kal Tire Surrey and the best they could suggest was buying 17" rims and tires for $1700 +

I tried Chrysler Canada 2 times and got the following (1) 335 55 R19 tires available everywhere. NOT and to wide for the wheel well and will be oversized. (2) drop down to a 17" which are readly available. I even gave my dealership a call and they even suggested dropping down to the 17". I have since informed them that there is a size ( however more expensive ) out there.

Good luck to all on the hunt

[MCS1]

Hello all. After 5 days of searching and calling Chrysler I finally found 19" snow tires for my 2009 Journey.

I needed 225 55 R19. I got Falcon 235 55 R19 snow tires ($1258 balanced and installed) from Volco Tires on Bridgeport in Richmond BC. They say that it is a pretty available tire and they had 4 at the store and another 12 in the warehouse.

Now the search:

I tried Kal Tire Surrey and the best they could suggest was buying 17" rims and tires for $1700 +

I tried Chrysler Canada 2 times and got the following (1) 335 55 R19 tires available everywhere. NOT and to wide for the wheel well and will be oversized. (2) drop down to a 17" which are readly available. I even gave my dealership a call and they even suggested dropping down to the 17". I have since informed them that there is a size ( however more expensive ) out there.

Good luck to all on the hunt

Like everyone else I also couldn't find snows for my 2010 RT out here in the Fraser Valley of BC. However I had a nearly new set of ice radial 18" 235/65 Hakapillata R's off my Jeep Grand Cherokee. My local tire dealer thought he had a cheap set of wheels, actually off an 09 Grand Cherokee, but they didn't clear the brakes. In the end after a couple of false starts we found a wheel from The Wheel Group (TWG) their model MPW in a size MP210-8821B (W18X8-127/6-127 MP210) that just clears the brakes and seems to work perfectly with these tires. At $160/ wheel it was not outrageous and when the crappy 19" Chinese summer tires wear out these wheels may in fact pay for themselves by allowing a fit of a more convensional tire size.By the way the published tire data on the stock Kumo's is incorrect,, showing a loaded radius od 13.6" which would give a diameter of 27". In fact the diameter is more like 28.5" and that is why the 235/65-18 Hak's fit just fine. Even the width is OK as the 235 still fit inside the fender flares. We wouldn't have known that from all the published info out there on the WEB but trial and error proved it works. - Oops correction on the Hak tire size it should have read 235/60R-18 not 65. By the way I checked the speedo reading aginst my GPS and at 100KPH on the GPS the speedo is reading about 98 to 99 so close enough for me. Also as far as the lack of TPS I found that you get a warning light for about 10 seconds when you first start the vehicle but then it goes off and stays off with no audable alerts of any kind - perfect.