Tires for our Honda Odyssey

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250SD_54V8

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Time for new tires on our 2014 Odyssey Touring size 235/60R18. This is primarily our hiway road trip vehicle. 75 to 80% of usage is on road trips in spring and summer. My main focus is a quiet good riding tire with good wet traction. I can get tires through my work at wholesale so here are my primary choices.
Nokian One All Season
Cooper Endeavor Plus
GoodYear Assurance Comfort Drive
Continental True Contact Tour 54
Of these tires what would be the recommendations for a comfortable quiet HiWay Tire.
 
Id say either the Continental or the Goodyear from that list depending on price. I got the Continental tct non-54 (clearance to make room for the 54s) and my mom has those Goodyears on her Ascent and Fusion; both seem pretty similar imo.
 
Our tire rep is recommending the Nokians. They just recently started handling them and he said the feedback has been really good. Interesting thing is the sidewalls on the Nokians have a kevlar ply. Not many reviews on them but they all seem good.
 
Cooper Endeavor Plus. I have had two sets and my son also had a set of Endeavor Plus on his 2016 Odyssey. VG tire for the money. Quiet and good wet traction. Average tread life. Got a nice proration for missing the mileage rating on a set of Cooper CS5 on my Mitsubishi. DT adjusted and so I bought another set of Coopers. They stand behind their tire warranty. My Ford Edge is wearing a set right now.
 
250SD_54V8 said:
Our tire rep is recommending the Nokians. They just recently started handling them and he said the feedback has been really good. Interesting thing is the sidewalls on the Nokians have a kevlar ply. Not many reviews on them but they all seem good.
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I don’t think there is an actual ply of Kevlar/aramid. I think they mix aramid fibers into the rubber- per some esoteric video I saw on the Nokian all terrain.

Excluding the Nokian, Goodyear will likely have the best ride. Rain traction may decrease more with the GY than the others. Continental has excellent rain characteristics, and if it wasn’t for the Nokians I’d say conti would have the best of the bunch. Cooper tends to make very good products, but I tend to find something that excels a bit farther than cooper when shopping.

At one point @edyvw mentioned having problems with Nokian quality (out of round), but that may have been prior to their Tennessee mfr facility. I’ve not heard any bad things about Nokian in more recent reviews. I may personally give them a try with my next tire purchase.
 
I have GoodYear comfort drive in that size on my Sienna, Almost 1 year on them and they don't seem to be wearing much. They are quiet and seem good in rain or snow.
 
250SD_54V8 said:
Time for new tires on our 2014 Odyssey Touring size 235/60R18. This is primarily our hiway road trip vehicle. 75 to 80% of usage is on road trips in spring and summer. My main focus is a quiet good riding tire with good wet traction. I can get tires through my work at wholesale so here are my primary choices.
Nokian One All Season
Cooper Endeavor Plus
GoodYear Assurance Comfort Drive
Continental True Contact Tour 54
Of these tires what would be the recommendations for a comfortable quiet HiWay Tire.
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Is snow an issue?
I would go Continental, then Nokian if snow is not an issue.
 
Whichever one also has an XL rating. All stories I read include the heavyweight of the minivans and tire wear.

@john_pifer has the Continental TrueContact Tour 54 on his Odyssey IIRC.

I have the older TrueContact Tour on my son's Forte. Work well so far. I don't run them in winter if that matters. X-ice snow currently has that duty.
 
The Cooper Pro Control may be worth a look. It does have the XL load rating. The Cooper Endeavor Plus also has the XL load rating.
 
Just turned over 10,000 miles on the Tour54’s and rotated them for the 2nd time.

No complaints at all.

Noticed that traction was just fine when driving in the cold & wet over the winter and a little bit of snow.

Suggest watching some of Tire Rack’s review videos. They have a few very detailed ones on this class of tire.
 
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