I'm the very last person to recommend Firestone/Bridgestone anything BUT I got the Exedra 204/55/16 for under a hundered out of a Utah shop on line just to try it. 3k on a metzler was just not right. I'm at 7k and still going. The 6' Johnstone screwdriver through the tread and out the sidewall in the first hundred miles without leaking to this day ... Gremlin bell or tire construction -just sayin'. Until they screw the program(I have faith) I'll go Exedra again