best way to get any Federal tires is to order them and expect the fact that the wait may be (1) month out... Tires Direct Warehouse (TDW) is the US distributor for Federal, which then out sources the tire to other tire shop vendors, such as City Tire when they process customers purchases...

What that translates to is that Federal Tires does not over stock the 595RS-r... When their is a slight overstock it is only a few pieces in a not so Evo friendly size...

We can help make the 595RS-R readily available, by showing a greater interest in the tire by willing to purchase them and wait...

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Also be on the look out for a new R-compound tire from Federal, the FZ-201...



-Matt

 

Thanks Matt. That really sucks to hear how hard it is to get them. Will the FZ 201 come in EVO friendly sizes?

Some Video of the FZ 201 in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykIIWoY7Fzw

 

I only waited 2 weeks for my 595 RSR. I dealt with onlinetires.com

 

I tried to order a set of 285/30/18 and they are not in stock. I said "fine, I can wait for them to ship over in the next batch." Then the retailer came back and said that Federal will not ship to TDW the 285/30/18 until a certain minimum orders were in and Federal would not tell them what the minimum orders were.

The problem here is Federal not making themselves available to the US market. Not, the US market not wanting their tire.

 

I was thinking of running the 595rsr's this year again but I heard they changed the compound to something harder, so I will most likely be going back to RS3's or AD08's for this year

 

You got any more info on this?

 

I bought a set of these last week for my Rota P45s.

 

Where did you order your tires from. I heard they are on back order with no eta

 

http://aspecwheels.net/

 

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Hate to burst your bubble but those are Federal 595SS. A tire that has nothing to do with 595 RS-R.

The RS-R pattern looks like this:


So your deal might not have been that good after all :/

 

You are correct. Thanks for letting me know. Let me edit my post.

 

http://www.federaltire.com/download/specFZ201.pdf

looks like some decent sizes. I'd love to try them out.

They also have this FZ-202. only in one size, but it happens to be the stock evo size.
http://www.federaltire.com/download/specFZ202.pdf

The fact that there is very little information on their site makes me wonder a bit.

 

I have had the 595 RS-R's on my stock wheels (VIII) for about 7 months. I give them a thumbs up.

 

Any more reviews out there on this tire?