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'B' rated tires and they have done extremely well and lasted quite a long time
Ewww, nothing is worse than bad tires. Have you even tried something modern and high-quality like Falken, Dunlop or Michelin? Consumer Reports article on tires was quite accurate imo. (had so many different tires myself it is stupid) The bottom of the list was all the crap the tire shops push on sr citizens and housewives..Cooper, Kelly, Uniroyal..junk. If you are comparing a generic tire to those ones, you are missing a whole new world of computer-modeled tires that did not even exist a few years ago.
ps long wear=less grip, the rubber compound in those "cheap" hard-wearing tires gets even harder in the cold..+25 degree wet pavment, yeah I want the rock-hard 80,000 miles tires.
They get even harder with age, as all tires do, and never wear out until dry-rot takes over. Our Conti Extreme Contacts and Falken Ziex 512s are incredible and the cost is peanuts, within 10% price of the "ElDorado" whitewalls. lol, sorry. Turanza, XGT, SP A2s, I was using them before CR's article and they are the top picks, no surprise here.
Henry Ford said "Americans don't care about tires as long as they are black and round".
[ April 26, 2004, 12:55 AM: Message edited by: Audi Junkie ]