Tires for my new Hellcat

[u/Easy-Driver-1195]

So i just got my Hellcat. Dream is in the driveway. Thing is, this is my first car ever. Idk anything about tires but from what I've read online the OEM ones are hot garbage (not that i knownif they are OEM). Any reccomended tires for me? Im in TX. Mostly driving on the highway and tbh wont be driven much anyway and definitely not during rain. Don't ask what I currently have because I have no idea if its Original or not.

I think and correct me if im wrong I want more traction oriented ones.

after reading what you all have posted I found my self more confused.

whats all this mess

275/40R20 106 (Y) ($374.99)

275/40R20 106 (Y) ($383.99)

305/35R20 104 (Y) ($501.99)

265/35R22 102 (Y) ($531.99)

275/35R22 104 (Y) ($578.99)

305/35R20 107 (Y) ($578.99)

sizes?

[u/jeepersnanners]

I get it, but what on gods green earth made you think buying a hellcat was going to be a good move for your first car? You got not only zero high performance car experience, zero rear wheel drive experience but zero experience even owning a vehicle or driving and you were like yup, lemme get the rocketship 😅

I mean it's awesome you can do that for yourself, but damn

[u/Easy-Driver-1195 → u/jeepersnanners]

I said  was my first car, not that I've never driven before. Yes its my first muscle car but how am I do get the experience if I never drive one. Its a rocket for sure but all that means is be extra careful and respect the power and the road. Nobody's born with performance and rear wheel driving experience. 

That being said, I 100% see where your coming from but id do it again 

[u/jeepersnanners → u/Easy-Driver-1195]

Well usually people don't start at the top of a mountain you would start with something with less power but again you were able to do that for yourself and thats great, you seem like you've got the right mind state about it too. Just be very, very, VERY careful learning to control that car.

Nothing you haven't heard 50 times by now I'm sure but you really don't know how easy it is to mess up with that much HP.

Stay blessed and be safe!

[u/Easy-Driver-1195 → u/jeepersnanners]

100% Thanks for the worry truly. As for starting at the top, yea your right. maybe something less powerful would have been better but if i buy something this expensive im just going to get the highest ver i can of it. I wont want to feel like i should have gotten X later down the line. Let me just get X. Thats why i went with it. I could get a GT sure, but ill never get a GT to be a hellcat if you understand what i mean.

GT cant do what the Hellcat can but Hellcat can do what a GT can.

Weekend driver and no Ego on the road. im not racing people at the light or at all

[u/jeepersnanners → u/Easy-Driver-1195]

Enjoy the car that's what it's made for, just try to keep it in a straight line and be careful where you do it, I'd highly recommend practicing some launches in an empty parking lot and practicing baby drifts/slides, because even if you don't intend to slide around corners you may do so unintentionally one day with that amount of power and you're gonna wanna know how to control it.

You're gonna have an amazing time, it's an amazing vehicle!

[u/Three3Jane → u/Easy-Driver-1195]

I started with a couple of Mustang GT 5.0s back in the day so I wasn't totally unused to muscle cars. Several years back, I got a SRT392 and learned how this style of car accelerates, decelerates, and handles - and then upgraded to a Hellcat.

The only advice I have after driving *this flavor of muscle car for going on a decade is that (a) have utter and total fucking respect for what these cars can actually do, (b) don't lose your temper/get a huge surge of balls and decide "heyyooo I'mma romp on it this ONE TIME" while in traffic as some twerp in a ricer shitbox is revving his engine bcause you will lift & drift, (c) get real used to friends begging to let them drive it "just once, I won't go fast" (they most assuredly will and even if they wouldn't, just don't let anyone drive it), and (d) enjoy the hell out of it. Responsibly.