'97 Legacy... buy some time or scrap?

Yeah, you know, I never knew about the 1/4" circumference thing?

I always assumed the reason for having 4 matching tires was for the

quality and tread type, meaning matching stickiness to the road, though

now it is immediately obvious about circumference etc.

The best thing to do is check alternate sizes you can use on that miata

site, if the stock size is say 185-XX-XX then I look for that and the 175

(175-70-14) and 195 sizes they tell you, and search ebay religiously for

fools selling their Michelins. Once I got 4 of exactly your size tires of

Michelin Hydroedges (personally, in my opinion the best tire out there)

practically new and delivered for 175 bucks. Then they last 4ever.

I'll even watch for one in my size and buy it and look for another.

But when I had absolutely no money when I moved down here to Houston,

I put all kinds of mix n match of single used tires on here and there after my

old Michelin X-ones wore through the metal to open air, and never had a prob.

But I did buy all 4 at times too.