Sounds like a good plan. As for the tires, I just want some all weather ones. What should I ask the dealer to hook me up with? Did you any of you guys have a hard time asking the dealers to switch out the tires?

 

Only if you mean for free! They'll happily charge you more than any other shop would and add a special handling fee on top of that.

 

I read in some of the forums that people were able to convince the dealer to throw in some better tires in exchange for the stock pairs. I mean, are the stock tires really that bad? I'm not going to be racing all the time, but I do want some good all season tires. Any recommendations?

 

They didn't get them for free, still had to pay for the new tires. One tire that many seem to like as far as all-season's go are the Toyo Proxes 4.

 

I would check out the gallant ralli art thats due out in 06 with the 3.8l mivec that may be the next big thing.