Dunlop Signature CS

[Mau]

How are these tires?

Looking at All Seasons for the RDX, and got a good deal on these. Tire size 235/55/18 (hard to get!) but I got quoted 750 on the road (taxes, installation and balancing included).

I'm just looking for good wet traction and I need the rubber to be quiet which in my research this tire is decent at. Of course its no winter tire but we've managed with All seasons on the RDX the past few winters so I don't see a reason to go to winters for them.

My other cars however do have winters on.

 

[HWEaton]

Go Goodyear Assurance Comfortread.

 

[nthach]

Meh, I have a bad opinion on Dunlop. Go with the Goodyear Assurance Fuelmax CS/ComfortTred/TripleTred or it's Fortera brother, the Michelin Cross Terrain or Latitude Tour series, or the Bridgestone Dueler Alenza.

 

[Hokiefyd]

Tire Rack tested them and was not all that impressed. Interestingly, wet traction is what really plagued this tire.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=127

I think you have a few decent choices in the 235/55R18 size:

Bridgestone Dueler H/L Alenza
Continental ContiProContact
Continental ExtremeContact DWS
Kumho Road Venture APT KL51
Yokohama Avid ENVigor

 

[tdpark]

Bridgestone Potenza RE960s i have them and i love thme. Great in the rain and for a performance tire did pretty good in sno.

 

[Mau]

Continental ExtremeContact DWS is what I want but man it's pricey. 300 bucks more for the set compared to Dunlop.

I can get the Goodyear Assurance Fuelmax CS for 100 bucks more but reviews don't look that great.

 

[Hokiefyd]

Originally Posted By: Mau
Continental ExtremeContact DWS is what I want but man it's pricey. 300 bucks more for the set compared to Dunlop.

I can get the Goodyear Assurance Fuelmax CS for 100 bucks more but reviews don't look that great.


I always say, buy the best tires you can afford. Of course, that's easy advice to give someone else, spending their own money, but I've second-guessed a cheap purchase before, enough to really wish I'd spent the money on the tires that looked like they'd fit my needs.

$300 spread over the 4 years that you'll likely own them is 20 cents a day. That's the difference between the cheap tires and the tires you really want. I'm willing to wager that if you buy the Dunlops, knowing you really want the Continentals, that 20 cents a day will truly seem like pocket change in about a month, or God forbid, after an accident on wet pavement on which you MIGHT have been able to handle or stop better if you didn't have the Dunlops.

I'm not here to bash the Dunlops, but given the pretty clear results that Tire Rack got, and given that wet traction is your highest priority, they just don't seem like a good match for you.

 

[Mau]

Looks like I may go for the yokohoma envigors. Can get them for a decent price and have good reviews too...

 

[Tortured_Soul]

AVID ENVigor. That's what I'm getting. Thanks to BITOG!

 

[daves87rs]

Nice!