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Originally Posted by Ohio Enthusiast
I'm surprised at how quickly they responded, but completely unsurprised at the lack of an actual answer. Fingers crossed someone ran both 260TW and 200TW in close sizes and can comment further.
I did find the post I was talking about. @ BlueWhelan looks like you're still around, do you have some more insight on this perhaps?
Sounds like the 235/40R17 size (in 200TW) wore out faster and didn't handle abuse as well as the 225/45R17 (260TW). |
I’ve had 3 sets of Sx2.
225/45/17 (200 tw) wore fine, consistent grip up to wear bar.
225/45/17 (260 tw) wore fine, consistent grip up to when I pulled them (2mm tread depth). Performance was pretty much the same to the 200tw.
235/40/17 (200 tw) wore fine like the rest up until 3mm tread depth, then fell off a cliff…in the middle of spring in SoCal. I can’t remember what date code they were…this was around 2018 so may have been old stock.
A current date code tire should be 260 tw, and should consistent across the range of SX2s. I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s possible I drove the tire when it wasn’t properly brought up from low temperature. This can affect the tire negatively, and since I daily drive that tire it definitely saw temps in the 40-30s. However, that wasn’t any different from the other sets I had either…
YMMV
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