That's funny, I needed a spare tyre back in Oct 2007 (nail thru the side wall) and at the time was informed by more than one store that the RE040 in 225/45R17 had been discontinued. So I ended up getting one RE001 and sticking it in the boot as an odd spare with the intention of getting another when the time came to get new tyres.

After reading the posts above I got back onto the Bridgestone website and low and behold there lists a 225/45/17 in the RE040 range.

Did they ever discontinue that tyre for a short period of time or did I just get dud information?