Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
For a top 3 summer tire the best deal is the Ventus V12 from Hankook. This tire almost won the last comparo in C&D! I've got about 10k miles on my set and have found them to be a very surprisingly good tire for the money.
We had a set of the Hankook Ventus V12 tires on our Mazda6, and they were, indeed, excellent tires. One rarely mentioned virtue is that, for whatever reason, they leaked air less that any other tires we have had over the years. All tires will lose some air pressure over time, but the Hankooks were exceptionally good in that regard.
The suspension geometry of some cars, especially cars with Macpherson strut front suspensions, causes tires to wear unevenly between inside and outside, and directional tread tires like the Ventus V12 cannot be as easily rotated to reduce the effects of that wear pattern as nondirectional tread tires can; fortunately, the Mazda6, with a double wishbone front suspension, wore the Ventus V12 tires evenly. We probably would have been less happy with the Vemtus V12s on the Nissan Maxima that we formerly had that wore its front tires very unevenly.
When it came time to replace them, we switched to Dunlop SP Sport Maxx TT tires. The Dunlops are still relatively new, so a comparison between how the Dunlops perform and the roughly 25,000 miles that we put on the Hankooks would be incomplete, but, so far, the Dunlops seem to be the better tires.
For a top 3 summer tire the best deal is the Ventus V12 from Hankook. This tire almost won the last comparo in C&D! I've got about 10k miles on my set and have found them to be a very surprisingly good tire for the money.
We had a set of the Hankook Ventus V12 tires on our Mazda6, and they were, indeed, excellent tires. One rarely mentioned virtue is that, for whatever reason, they leaked air less that any other tires we have had over the years. All tires will lose some air pressure over time, but the Hankooks were exceptionally good in that regard.
The suspension geometry of some cars, especially cars with Macpherson strut front suspensions, causes tires to wear unevenly between inside and outside, and directional tread tires like the Ventus V12 cannot be as easily rotated to reduce the effects of that wear pattern as nondirectional tread tires can; fortunately, the Mazda6, with a double wishbone front suspension, wore the Ventus V12 tires evenly. We probably would have been less happy with the Vemtus V12s on the Nissan Maxima that we formerly had that wore its front tires very unevenly.
When it came time to replace them, we switched to Dunlop SP Sport Maxx TT tires. The Dunlops are still relatively new, so a comparison between how the Dunlops perform and the roughly 25,000 miles that we put on the Hankooks would be incomplete, but, so far, the Dunlops seem to be the better tires.
