That is correct.

 

Thank you much

 

the 555R is dot legal, but the 555R2 is not. dont know why, and can't imagine a cop looking at that. its got the same tread pattern even.

 

Are you sure about that??

http://www.nittotire.com/tires_555r2.asp

Maybe they weren't when they first came out, but have since been approved?

 

Yeah, I'm with the Capn on this one. I know some guys who run around on slicks on the street that are still DOT approved.

 

I think you might have missed blackrat's point though . He's saying that the 555R's (the drag radials) are DOT approved, while the RII's (auto-x tires) are NOT. BFG DR's and Mickey Thompson ET Streets (inc. Street Radials) are both DOT approved as well. There's no argument about that. The tires currently in question are the 555RII's (but the Nitto site says they're DOT approved, so maybe that's something that's recently changed? ).

 

yea i think both the 555R's and the R2's r both now DOT approved.... i plan on getting 555R's for summer DD use.... i want to be able to hook great on the street... if i get caught in a bad rain i will just take it easy i guess :/

 

Good catch, yeah they must have been approved recently or something. I remember when I tried to buy them from a shop the guy was telling me they weren't legal for the street, plus their old description mentioned the non-DOT status of them.

Still wonder what makes them legal/illegal.

 

I don't think it has "just" became DOT approved. The reason I say this is that I have had then on my Z for the last few years, and if they weren't DOT approved, I doubt they would put them on my car and let me drive off on the street without at least mentioning that they weren't street leagal.

 

theyll put them on, they dont really care too much. when i tried to order them through a tire shop they told me they werent legal, but they would still mount them.

 

I've had the RII's for a couple of years, and they have been DOT approved since I bought them.

 

I don't know what to say, I just remember what they said and what I read when I first started buying them a few years ago too. Either way, they are definantly legal now.

 

AFAIK, they were DOT legal since the get go. they are pretty much the same tire as the 555R with a sidewall stiffener.

 

:sigh: Well, this is going to go back and forth. Call me bullheaded, but I know what I dealt with when I first got them.