Worst Tires Ever?

[mzugg]

Worst ever (after bias plies) Bridgestone Insignia. Average grip when dry, ZERO grip on damp pavement. They came to me new on a used sedan (car dealers always buy nothing but the best

). I took them off and replaced them with Bridgestone Turanza LSVs. The LSVs are awesome, wet and dry.

I see that Bridgestone has a new version of the Insignia now, with "improved wet traction." I hope so! They were downright dangerous. Maybe the problem is solved now.

[ January 08, 2005, 01:09 AM: Message edited by: mzugg ]

 

[74 Laguna]

Our worst tires would be Yokohama Avid Touring tires. Might be good for a smaller car but did not hold up on a Town Car. With less than 5,000 miles on them Yokohama said 3 of them had gone bad but refunded money for all four, not what we paid but did rufund some. We put Michelin Symmetrys back on and it rides much better and quieter.

 

[malibu jimbo]

Since the question was, "What was the the worst tires you EVER owned," I can't put any radial tire as worst. I have to go back about 43 years ago, when I bought a pair of Atlas Bucrons for the rear wheels of my 56 Chevy. Supposed to be street drag racing tires I believe - super soft, wore out in nothing flat and suicide on wet roads.

 

[malibu jimbo]

Since the question was, "What was the the worst tires you EVER owned," I can't put any radial tire as worst. I have to go back about 43 years ago, when I bought a pair of Atlas Bucrons for the rear wheels of my 56 Chevy. Supposed to be street drag racing tires I believe - super soft, wore out in nothing flat and suicide on wet roads. Don't ask me to remember what I replaced them with!

 

[JeepZJ4.0]

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Originally posted by srivett:
If you guys could find a set of Bridgestone Turanza T tires to try you'd change your minds about the worst tires around. I have a featherweight 1992 Golf Diesel that puts out a whopping 52 HP when new and I can break these tires loose in 5th gear. Add a dash of snow, salt, sand, or slush and hold on tight! You'll never see me running Bridgestones again as I never forget the name of a company that rips me off. I smoke them without regret whenever I get stuck so if I'm lucky they'll be gone soon. There was one time I had them spinning for 3 minutes straight wide open in 2nd gear but they just won't die!

Cheers, Steve

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Bridgestone Turanza LS-T? That's a first I've heard about those being really bad. We had those on our Windstar and it made the van drive great.

 

[srivett]

The Turanza T is the predecessor to the LS-T. My winter tires are doing quite a bit better thankfully. I have gotten into some problems with them on glare ice but I'm quite happy with them. A couple days ago I blew a red light with them and I had a cop behind me too. I bet he heard my tires howling on the ice, I heard them over my radio so I decided not to bother stopping. I would have ended up wearing the cop car as a diaper.

Cheers, Steve

 

[buster]

Worst tires- Dunlop SPA2 Wore out quick and very uneven tire wear.

Best Tires- Michellin

 

[rpn453]

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Originally posted by 4DSC:
The last OEM tires I've experienced were Goodyear Invicta GA (Caravan) and RS-A (Mazda 3) weren't "terrible",

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I really, really hope you aren't right. My Mazda3 has no traction and wheel hops constantly (even under very little power - dry, wet, or snowy/icy) with my factory RS-A's. I haven't experienced wheel hop once since I put my winter tires on: they either grip or spin. I used the RS-A's for one season and I'm probably going to toss them and put on new tires this spring. Well, I'll probably just try changing the fronts first. I really hope that those RS-A's are in fact terrible, or else I might be shopping for a different car instead.

 

[k1xv]

The Infiniti FX-45 in our family came with OEM 265/50VR20 Goodyear RS-A tires, and I am not impressed with them either. Handling seems rather notchy. We put on some Bridgestone Blizzaks (admittedly, a different size and cross section) and the FX45 significantly improved its road manners.

And here I thought it was the 20 inch wheels.

After we wear these Goodyears out, will definitely not replace with the same.

 

[wavinwayne]

The Monarchs on my GTI at the moment. They were on it when I bought it used 15 months ago & are the definition of awful.

I will be replacing them very soon. What do you guys think I should get for all-highway, non-aggressive driving? I do 80 mile round-trips to work every day.

[ February 15, 2005, 09:35 PM: Message edited by: wavinwayne ]

 

[k1xv]

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Originally posted by wavinwayne:
What do you guys think I should get for all-highway, non-aggressive driving? I do 80 mile round-trips to work every day. [/QB]

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I would go for a reasonable high performance all season tire such as the Goodrich Traction T/A. Given your location, I assume snow performance is not a big priority.

If you go over to www.tirerack.com you can check them out. I see they were user rated first out of 17 tires in the same performance category (high performance all season)

 

[Mister Ed]

The worst tires I ever had came on my wife`s 2000 Toyota Camry.We bought the car new and it came with Dunlops.I don`t remember the name.They lasted less than 13000 miles.You could run your hand over the tread and get stuck with sharp wire sticking out of the tread.

 

[Audi Junkie]

Just a nod for the SP A2 actually being good. We did have a blow-out with a nearly new one, but no other a/s tire gives me the snow traction it does. (except Conti Extreme) I probally owned 20 of them. On my mom's, mother-n-law's, cousins and a few others right now. I kinda wish I got them again over my G-009s based on snow grip. I'm sorry, but Bridgestone does not have a good all-season compound. A new set of Potenza RE 950s were so slick they almost cost me my brand-new Audi. I think Pirellis are sucky for name-brand tires. They always get bubbles and produce no cold wet grip. Michelin? Only interested in XGTs. I hear a lot of complaints about Pilots on AudiWorld. Everyone says get Toyo.

 

[Pablo]

BF Goodrich HR's.

sorta sneaky bad

 

[Huhwhye]

Mr Ed sounds like the stock Bridgestones on my Grandma's '01 Toyota Solara. They were toast at 20k, and that's Grandma driving. They had even wear and all 4 wore the same. Alignment was good and rotations were done. I complained to Toyota and they pointed the finger at Bridgestone. Bridestone tech guy told me that OEM tires wear faster so the tires grip better. Then he said, doesn't it handle good? I laughed and told him that Solara handles like a truck.

Then I bought Grandma a set of crappy Goodyear Eagle HP's, my mistake. I can't get them to balance. They are cupping at all 4 corners. Alignment was redone. And they were rebalanced. They still suck. She doesn't drive much and doesn't notice. But everytime I drive that car those tires **** me off.

Factory Continentals on my 04 Ranger suck pretty hard too. They put a car tire on a truck. The first time I hit a dirt road I put a stick thru the sidewall. Had 8000 miles on the truck. So rather than replace the 1 punctured tires I tossed all 4 and I put a set of real truck tires on my truck, Some BFG AT KOs

[ March 15, 2005, 03:17 AM: Message edited by: Huhwhye ]

 

[andrews]

Bridgestone Duelers H/T....absolutely the worst garbage on the planet!! Road roar remins me of the Niagara Falls. Grip? What's that? Cornering....yeah, like hard plastic tricycle tires. Slips in rain like it's made out of banana peels. Best use for them? Stack them up and make a planter out of them!!

 

[Cadude]

Worse tires for me were the Firestone 721s. A better name for them would have been Maypops.

I had a set of Goodyear Vectors on my last car and they were super.

My new car came with Michelin Symetrys. I have less than 7k on them so it is too early to judge but at least they are quiet and have good traction.

 

[MarkC]

Worst? Goodyear Wrangler AP. Might as well have ballet slippers on.

 

[MarkC]

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Originally posted by lyle:
It's another Michelin basher.. only this time my vote goes for the Cross Terrain SUV, way over-priced and way-underperforming.

Although they were OK in the dry, these things were dangerous in slush and snow. They had NO traction, even with 4hi on an Expedition engaged. When everyone else was stopping normally and gradually, I was into the ABS and hoping something would grab. Cars with any semblance of tread on their tires would pull away from me at stop lights like I had slicks on.

Oh, and for you "treadwear is outstanding on Michelin" guys, I got a grand total of 19000 miles out of my set before I hit the wear bars. Michelin said sorry, some tires wear faster than others. They offered me $100 off of my next set of Michelins, which will be in my next life.

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Maybe your Expedtion is just too heavy for these tires. I've got them om my Cherokee and have almost 35K on them. They stick in the dry, the Seattle rain, the Snoqualmie ice and snow, I have no complaints.

 

[srivett]

Winter is over so I went back to my Turanza tires mentioned earlier and OMG what a rough ride. It feels like the tires are made of concrete! The winter tires were sooo much better.

Steve