We've got these tires on 2 vehicles now. I was on the fence about purchasing the Primacy MXV4, the General Altimax, the Cooper CS4, and the Goodyear Assurance.
After doing plenty of research online, reading reviews, Tire Rack surveys, and making a thread when it came down to the Primacy or the CS4, I finally popped on the Primacys.
The first vehicle to swap into Primacys was our 2002 Malibu with (at the time) about 110,000 miles. The previous tires were Kumho 732 Touring Plus all-season tires that lasted about 50,000 miles before they were nearing 2/32" to 3/32" and were fairly abysmal overall (loud, difficult to balance).
It's been about a year and 10,000 miles on the Primacy with the Malibu. I took measurements of tread depth this past weekend to see how they're wearing.
When the tires were new, the center measured 10/32" tread depth and the sides were 9/32" deep. At 9,500 miles (when I rotated them for the first time) the measurements came:
Front left: 9/32" 9/32" 9/32" (outer, middle, inner)
Front right: 9/32" 9/32" 9/32"
Rear left: 9/32" 10/32" 9/32"
Rear right: 9/32" 10/32" 9/32"
I rounded down to the next closest 1/32" of an inch (a tire that measured somewhere between 9/32" and 10/32" at any given point would be rounded down to 9/32"
At this wear rate (which I do not presume will continue linearly) the tires should easily last beyond their 60,000 mile treadlife warranty.
The noise levels with the Primacys have been fantastic. We just put them on our 2003 Accord which has had 2 sets of Energy MXV4's up to this point, and the sound difference again was fantastic. The Energy MXV4 is a fairly bad tire. The ones we took off had about 40,000 miles on them and had plenty of tread (between 4/32" and 5/32") but were getting increasingly noisy and traction in snow/ice had been terrible from day one).
Snow and ice traction seem good to me (my personal vehicles have snow tires in winter) and have good directional control and a predictable limit. The rain traction seems excellent as well, probably the best "in the rain" tires I've used on a car. They seem quiet, they balanced well and as I mentioned before, the wear seems very good.
Overall, I can see why people like these tires so much. If there are drawbacks with these tires, I haven't noticed yet.
After doing plenty of research online, reading reviews, Tire Rack surveys, and making a thread when it came down to the Primacy or the CS4, I finally popped on the Primacys.
The first vehicle to swap into Primacys was our 2002 Malibu with (at the time) about 110,000 miles. The previous tires were Kumho 732 Touring Plus all-season tires that lasted about 50,000 miles before they were nearing 2/32" to 3/32" and were fairly abysmal overall (loud, difficult to balance).
It's been about a year and 10,000 miles on the Primacy with the Malibu. I took measurements of tread depth this past weekend to see how they're wearing.
When the tires were new, the center measured 10/32" tread depth and the sides were 9/32" deep. At 9,500 miles (when I rotated them for the first time) the measurements came:
Front left: 9/32" 9/32" 9/32" (outer, middle, inner)
Front right: 9/32" 9/32" 9/32"
Rear left: 9/32" 10/32" 9/32"
Rear right: 9/32" 10/32" 9/32"
I rounded down to the next closest 1/32" of an inch (a tire that measured somewhere between 9/32" and 10/32" at any given point would be rounded down to 9/32"
At this wear rate (which I do not presume will continue linearly) the tires should easily last beyond their 60,000 mile treadlife warranty.
The noise levels with the Primacys have been fantastic. We just put them on our 2003 Accord which has had 2 sets of Energy MXV4's up to this point, and the sound difference again was fantastic. The Energy MXV4 is a fairly bad tire. The ones we took off had about 40,000 miles on them and had plenty of tread (between 4/32" and 5/32") but were getting increasingly noisy and traction in snow/ice had been terrible from day one).
Snow and ice traction seem good to me (my personal vehicles have snow tires in winter) and have good directional control and a predictable limit. The rain traction seems excellent as well, probably the best "in the rain" tires I've used on a car. They seem quiet, they balanced well and as I mentioned before, the wear seems very good.
Overall, I can see why people like these tires so much. If there are drawbacks with these tires, I haven't noticed yet.
