LONG story Cliffnotes version.
Got Conti Terraincontact AT for a REALLY super price $420 all in after rebates/ selling OEM tires with 35k miles on them etc.
They wobbled going down the road like a drunk in high heel, had odd vibrations and steering wheel shake.. would come and go.
sometimes smooth at 75-80, othertimes feel like I was going to bounce out of my lane even at 60-65.
rebalance didnt help.
Note my size was hecho en mexico maybe I should have went +1 and that was a USA size (didnt know until afterwards)
Discussed options with Discount tire. They ordered me a second set.
Went to have them swapped out and they had some help from other stores there.. The reason I mention this is they were seeing quite a few complaints on the contis at their respective DT stores.
Decided to pass on second set and move on.
Traded them back for toyo open country at III @-$53
new total cost $367
Toyos are Much more aggressive(slightly more than I really wanted), louder, feel planted, well balanced, round , firm on expansion joints but not the kidney kicker double bounce I was feeling with the contis.
Tread pattern is more BFG vs standard 5block type design.
So far they seem very acceptable in all ways will report back in 500-1000 miles.
Pics below of special note is the size of the tread voids between blocks the contis look like normal car tires but they were definitely mild AT tires in person
Toyos are not mud terrains but look like they would do extremely well in mud for an AT.. they also have molded in rock ejectors.
Another interesting feature is on the contis the "noise blockers" the little rubber strips that block off the outer tread blocks.. I'd expect them to not evacuate water as effectively but maybe this doesnt matter esp with decent tread depth.
Contis that went back
Toyos
EDIT:
I dont have a good stock tire pic but here is the cough cough "AT" tread pattern. They wore like steel 2/32 worn in almost 35k miles.
Got Conti Terraincontact AT for a REALLY super price $420 all in after rebates/ selling OEM tires with 35k miles on them etc.
They wobbled going down the road like a drunk in high heel, had odd vibrations and steering wheel shake.. would come and go.
sometimes smooth at 75-80, othertimes feel like I was going to bounce out of my lane even at 60-65.
rebalance didnt help.
Note my size was hecho en mexico maybe I should have went +1 and that was a USA size (didnt know until afterwards)
Discussed options with Discount tire. They ordered me a second set.
Went to have them swapped out and they had some help from other stores there.. The reason I mention this is they were seeing quite a few complaints on the contis at their respective DT stores.
Decided to pass on second set and move on.
Traded them back for toyo open country at III @-$53
new total cost $367
Toyos are Much more aggressive(slightly more than I really wanted), louder, feel planted, well balanced, round , firm on expansion joints but not the kidney kicker double bounce I was feeling with the contis.
Tread pattern is more BFG vs standard 5block type design.
So far they seem very acceptable in all ways will report back in 500-1000 miles.
Pics below of special note is the size of the tread voids between blocks the contis look like normal car tires but they were definitely mild AT tires in person
Toyos are not mud terrains but look like they would do extremely well in mud for an AT.. they also have molded in rock ejectors.
Another interesting feature is on the contis the "noise blockers" the little rubber strips that block off the outer tread blocks.. I'd expect them to not evacuate water as effectively but maybe this doesnt matter esp with decent tread depth.
Contis that went back
Toyos
EDIT:
I dont have a good stock tire pic but here is the cough cough "AT" tread pattern. They wore like steel 2/32 worn in almost 35k miles.
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