tire brands you will/wont buy again?

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ive run through a few brands of tires and although they may differ from model to model they have left a sour/sweet taste in my mouth.

the good:

falken - had st115 and they wore very evenly and well with great traction

kumho - i ran 512's and ast's and both seemed to wear decent with very good traction.

bridgestone - currently running RE050's that stick like glue
but cant comment on wear as ive only had them for 700 miles. they are pricey though.

michelin - great tire with very good characteristics but a bit pricey, i may consider them the best brand out there. mom has the cheapest model as orig. equip on her caddy right now and has 26000 miles on them and they still are looking decent.

uniroyal - these came stock on my moms toronado and they seemed pretty decent, dont know if id buy uniroyal myself though.

the bad:

goodyear - had some RSA's that came stock on my grand prix gtp and within 6000 miles they were out of round and howling badly at highway speeds. my mom also had a set of top of the line double eagle on her caddy that wore the shoulders off quickly.

continential - came as original equipment on my GTI and the sidewalls were way too soft for the application that they were intended for, swapped them out @ 2500 and got some decent money back for them.

toyo - my mom had these for her front wheel drive, pig heavy olds toronado and they wore horribly uneven and short.



i would like to hear of some of your experiences.
 
i dont like the no bane brands, douglas, rocky mountain, cooper, etc. have has too many bad expierences.

i stick to brand names, goodyear, michelin, falken, etc.
 
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i dont like the no bane brands, douglas, rocky mountain, cooper, etc. have has too many bad expierences.

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I'm assuming you meant "no name" brands
and since when has Cooper been a no name brand????
news to me...
 
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kumho - i ran 512's and ast's

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I thought the 512 was a Falken tire model. Did Kumho make one with the same name as well?

As for me:

Dunlop - after my current flatspotting issues with the Maxx and Dunlop/Goodyear's unwillingness to ackowledge that it is a defect and not a feature, I think I'm done with them.

Conti - I actually liked their CSC2 for the great blend of performance and comfort, and will most likely buy the CSC3 when I finally wear out the Maxx

Bridgestone - great performance-wise; the S03 PP stuck like glue in all road conditions (excluding snow of course)

Michelin - overpriced, mediocre performance, at least in their low and mid-grade tires. I've heard good things about their top of the line Pilot Sports though, but again, very very expensive. The OEM MXV4+ Energy were #@$%!, so were the Pilot Alpin winter tires.

Yokohama - I had the Avid H4S on the company car - not a bad economy tire.
 
I've had good experiences with the following brands and would lean toward them: Cooper, BFG, Michelin, Goodyear, and Hankook.
 
I've always been satisfied with Michelins, rarely with no-names. I don't mind paying a little more for something that I only replace every 4-5 years and means so much to the enjoyment of driving the car.
 
I used to buy Goodyear exclusively but now I'm looking at Bridgestones for replacements. When Goodyear didn't have a half-way decent tire in my car's size, I tried the Bridgestone Expedia S-01 and these tires are awesome!! I plan on replacing the Eagle ZR60s on my wife's car with Potenza RE750s in a couple months. The old Pirelli P-700Zs on the Porsche will be replaced with Potenza RE-01Rs or RE-050A PPs this year too.
 
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i dont like the no bane brands, douglas, rocky mountain, cooper, etc. have has too many bad expierences.

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I'm assuming you meant "no name" brands
and since when has Cooper been a no name brand????
news to me...

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yeah. im dyslexic. no bane meant name. i normally poorf read my stuff before clicking reply but its ofetn hard for a dyslexic to poorf read anything and not miss something.
thats why i decided not to edit "proof" and "often".
 
The Good:

Bridgestone (Dueler AT REVO) - Best AT tire I've owned hands down. I got more than promised wear (50 k treadlife warranty - now over 60,000 miles), relatively quiet and excellent traction.

Michelin- (LTX AT) Wear like iron and extremely quiet on my Jeep Cherokee. Good all around traction, with ice being my one complaint.

Bad:

Goodyear: Wrangler RTS, several variations of smaller economy car tires: Each batch was noisy and had terrible snow/ice traction. The RTS tires were downright scary in snow. Threw a belt in the RTS and one of the ecomy tires.

Firestone: Wilderness AT and HT. Need I say more...

I've used several other brands, including BFG, Uniroyal, Hankook, Cooper, and General. Nothing great or terrible about any of them.
 
firestone,sumitomo,michelin,goodyear - the ones i prolly won't put first on my shopping list. but who knows...
 
Goodyear has sucked for me as of late. RSA's on my Grand Am.......forget about ice and snow; Assurance Comfortreads........forget about ice and snow and they handled like craap, but rode very nice.
 
Tires I have good luck with and seem to hold up Bridgestones and Michelins. Problem tires I had are Goodyear (sidewall weak) and of course Firestone.
 
Bad;
firestone wilderness a/t, they had really soft sidewalls and they would get sticks stuck in them very easily.

Good;
goodyear wrangler m/t, just about the toughest m/t available.
 
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can you tell more about this tire? thinking about putting it on my shopping list. thanks.

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I think it's just a good combination of performance characteristics for the money. I wouldn't necessarily use them on my e39, but for the Sentra they were great - good grip in wet and dry, relatively quiet and comfy. Sidewalls are on the soft side, but again, it's an H-rated tire, not meant for aggressive cornering, so you can't expect that type of performance. All in all, good tire for a commuter car. I have not used it in snow conditions, and from the reviews I've read on TireRack, it's not that great in that department. Then again, serious winter conditions call for dedicated winter tires, IMO.
 
I had bad luck with a set of firestone destination LE tires for my f150.

They say its a 50k tire, mine are near the wear bars at 35k miles.

I'll buy a high mileage warranty michelin next time, and spend the extra money.
 
I had bad luck with Kumho's. They were out of round and induced a shake in the car. Kumho swaped several tires and the problem followed the tires when they were switched. We measured the tires and you could see where they were out of round. Trouble was that replacement tires were also out of round. After a lot of trouble and five sways, Kumho gave up and offered me a pro-rated refund, saying that I had gotton about 5k miles worth of use and would not budge. I filed in Small Claims and when they were served I got my full amount including sales tax back on the same day. They said that I should look elsewhere for tires and that's the first time we both agreed on something. I bought some Yokohoma Avid TRZ's and am very happy with them, and they have an 80k warranty.
 
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