Same is true about the Goodyear Assurance Maxlife tires I bought for my daughter's Infiniti QX50. When I ask her how she liked them she said something like, "Oh I don't even think about them because they are so smooth and quiet. That's compared to her OE run-flats, whatever brand they were.
Continental Extreme Contact DWS 06 Plus
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I had a set of turanzas years ago. At 70,000 they still had almost half of their tread and original weights, a total of 7 plugs across all 4 and drove like glass, and I drove them hard. However, they became ice skates in the wet. Their practical value faded before the tread was close. Great tires, solidly and well built.
They really are great tires. I wasn't looking for bridgestone but walmart had them @$150 a tire for 19", so it was deal I couldn't pass up! Dead quiet, absolutely no vibration on any surface and are on track to make it 50-60k.
I ran the Tourenza serenity plus on a 10' Impala way back when, they were impressively good on wet roads and standing water; but driving on 441 to Gatlinburg we hit a snow patch that had melted off a tree and fallen on the cleared road, they were significantly less impressive and had us sliding into the thankfully clear oncoming lane. They also surpassed their road warranty so it doesn't surprise me they're wearing like iron for D1dad.
Correction: I should have said Goodyear Assurance ComfortDrive, not Maxlife.
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The warranty is 50k, if I’m not mistaken. I’d never run a tire to their warranty, usually. But, I just may be able to on these. I treat tires like shoes. When they start looking bad I replace them. Usually around 50-60%. I raised 2 boys who cost me more in shoes for their feet than shoes for my car cost on an annual basis.
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FWIW: one thing I've found with some very high-end tires is that they're usable all the way down to the wear bars, and this gives them longer usable tread lives than lower-performance tires that take longer to get to the wear bars. E.g., a set of Michelin Pilot Sport 4S will be practically bald after 30k miles, whereas a more mainstream tire might take 50k to get to that point – but the mainstream tire will start out with mediocre grip and get sketchy by 20k-25k, whereas the 4S will grip hard (even in rain!) until it's bald.
So far, almost every tire I've seen play this trick has been a Michelin (one was a Bridgestone that specifically advertised this feature). I have yet to see a single "bang for the buck" tire that could come close in this department. I'm watching with interest to see if the DWS 06+ can do it, too.
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The Michelin PSS I had cut water better at 3/32 than any cheap tire I ever had at 7-8/32.
My son has a set of the DWS06+ on his Audi S3 and just recently bought new wheels/summer tires (ECS02s) so these are off/in the garage. Comparing to my "winter" tires the Michelin PSAS4, it's interesting and should explain why the DWS06 has typically shown better snow performance than the Michelin in testing and the Michelin has shown better dry performance. While both being UHP all seasons, you can see the differences of focus here. The DWS06+ is just an overall blockier tire to me which will induce more squirm and yield less dry perfomrnace braking/cornering. The PSAS4 is more similar to a summer tire with more sipes.
