{"id":8436,"date":"2010-06-11T06:31:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2010-06-11T06:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:31:05","slug":"2011-cadillac-cts-summer-tires-vs-new-all-season-performance-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/2011-cadillac-cts-summer-tires-vs-new-all-season-performance-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Cadillac CTS Summer Tires vs New All-Season Performance Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlighted New Features for the 2011 Cadillac CTS Sedan is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(FE5) 19&#8243; All-Season Tire Package<\/li>\n<li>(Q2B) P245\/45R19 all season blackwall tires. Included and only available in (FE5) 19&#8243; All-Season Tire Package.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at exactly what that entails.\u00a0 It is intriguing that RPO code FE5 was selected, since this would suggest even higher performance.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"95%\" bordercolor=\"#999999\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5%\"><strong>FE5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"5%\"><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">NEW! <\/span><strong>19&#8243; (48.3 cm) All-Season Tire  Package<\/strong><br \/>\n1 &#8211; Requires (Y42) 18&#8243; All-Season  Tire Performance Package. Includes (KB7) steering wheel mounted Paddle Shift  controls. (Q2B) P245\/45R19 all-season blackwall tires replace (QKE) P235\/50R18  V-rated all-season blackwall tires. (PJ2) 19&#8243; x 8.5&#8243; polished wheels replace  either (P75) 18&#8243; x 8&#8243; aluminum wheels with premium multi-coat painted finish or  (P63) 18&#8243; x 8&#8243; aluminum wheels with high-polished finish. Not available with  (Y43) 19&#8243; Summer Tire Performance Package, (MN6) 6-speed manual transmission,  (W2E) Recaro performance seats or (SE4) LPO, 18&#8243; chrome wheels.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So it is an option that pushes the 3.6L DI CTS to 19&#8243; all weather tires, and 245\/45 versus 235\/50 stock tires.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"95%\" bordercolor=\"#999999\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5%\"><strong>Y43<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"5%\"><\/td>\n<td><strong>Performance Package<\/strong>, 19&#8243; (48.3 cm) Summer Tire,  includes (T4F) HID headlamps, (KB7) steering wheel mounted paddle shift controls  (MX0 6-speed automatic transmission only), (T3U) fog lamps, (PJ2) 19&#8243; x 8.5&#8243;  polished wheels, (Q0M) P245\/45ZR19 Y-rated performance summer tires, (V03)  performance cooling system (MX0 6-speed automatic transmission RWD only), (FE3)  sport performance suspension, (G80) limited slip differential and (J55)  performance brakes<br \/>\n1 &#8211; Model 6DP69 only. Not  available with (Y42) 18&#8243; All-Season Tire Performance Package or (FE5) 19&#8243;  All-Season Tire Package (Model 6DP69 or 6DH69).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Summer Tire package has 245\/45 tires also, but includes other performance bits as well.\u00a0 So the FE5 gives the cornering advantage of the 19&#8243; wheels and all-weather benefit of all-season tires at the expense of the ultimate performance of the Performance Package Summer Setup.\u00a0 In other words, the FE5 option is a good approach to performance if you want more sport but know you will be driving in weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlighted New Features for the 2011 Cadillac CTS Sedan is (FE5) 19&#8243; All-Season Tire Package (Q2B) P245\/45R19 all season blackwall tires. Included and only available in (FE5) 19&#8243; All-Season Tire Package. Let&#8217;s look at exactly what that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/2011-cadillac-cts-summer-tires-vs-new-all-season-performance-tires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,6],"tags":[651,650,649],"class_list":["post-8436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cts-cadillac-models","category-site-info-news","tag-2011-cadillac-cts","tag-cadillac-cts-wheels-and-tires","tag-fe5-all-season-tire-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}