Originally Posted By: bigjl
Originally Posted By: UltrafanUK
Originally Posted By: slacktide_bitog
If only you were shopping last week! Because you just missed the labor day sales.
That said, there are some good affordable choices for you:
Cooper Discoverer M+S
Falken Wildpeak HT
Falken Wildpeak AT3W
Hankook Dynapro HT RH12
General Grabber HTS (or the newer HTS60)
Cooper Discoverer HTP
The Yokohama Geolandar HT G056 has a 70k warranty, the longest for a tire in your size.
Looks like the latest list of tyres that won't stop you well in the wet!
Top of the range Michellin tyres have a good reputation for low wear figures and good stopping distance figures, although Goodyear vector all seasons are a tough act to beat if you want minimum stopping figures.
Better still switch to using winter and summer tyres IF you live in an area that gets cold in winter. Then it's a case of using top of the range Conti's or Dunlops.
You do realise that many tyres from so called "inferior" manufacturers outperform Continentals and Dunlops.
When ever I have had Continentals they have worn prematurely and the replacements have been better. Specifically on our old Clio Dci. It could knock out a set of Conti Contacts in less than 12k miles, on the inside and outside edge.
Hankooks lasted well without the uneven wear, Dunlops also wore quickly on the inside and outside edges. The best tyre as far as wear and performance goes were the Kumho KinergyEco tyres.
And the car had regular alignments, though the mk3 Clio Dci is known for heavy front tyre wear.
Tire that can last long time is not a tire, it is a pice of plastic.
On my cars I had Continental Conti Sport 3, TS790, 810, 830 and 850. None of them exerted premature wear on cars OPEL Vectra B 2.0 16V, Lancia Lybra 2.4 jtd, Skoda Octavia A5 1.9tdi and LCI Octavia A5 1.9TDI.
However, the worst winter tire I have ever owned was Hankook W300, and generally worst tire I have ever owned was Kumho Ecsta Platinum LX.
Originally Posted By: UltrafanUK
Originally Posted By: slacktide_bitog
If only you were shopping last week! Because you just missed the labor day sales.
That said, there are some good affordable choices for you:
Cooper Discoverer M+S
Falken Wildpeak HT
Falken Wildpeak AT3W
Hankook Dynapro HT RH12
General Grabber HTS (or the newer HTS60)
Cooper Discoverer HTP
The Yokohama Geolandar HT G056 has a 70k warranty, the longest for a tire in your size.
Looks like the latest list of tyres that won't stop you well in the wet!
Top of the range Michellin tyres have a good reputation for low wear figures and good stopping distance figures, although Goodyear vector all seasons are a tough act to beat if you want minimum stopping figures.
Better still switch to using winter and summer tyres IF you live in an area that gets cold in winter. Then it's a case of using top of the range Conti's or Dunlops.
You do realise that many tyres from so called "inferior" manufacturers outperform Continentals and Dunlops.
When ever I have had Continentals they have worn prematurely and the replacements have been better. Specifically on our old Clio Dci. It could knock out a set of Conti Contacts in less than 12k miles, on the inside and outside edge.
Hankooks lasted well without the uneven wear, Dunlops also wore quickly on the inside and outside edges. The best tyre as far as wear and performance goes were the Kumho KinergyEco tyres.
And the car had regular alignments, though the mk3 Clio Dci is known for heavy front tyre wear.
Tire that can last long time is not a tire, it is a pice of plastic.
On my cars I had Continental Conti Sport 3, TS790, 810, 830 and 850. None of them exerted premature wear on cars OPEL Vectra B 2.0 16V, Lancia Lybra 2.4 jtd, Skoda Octavia A5 1.9tdi and LCI Octavia A5 1.9TDI.
However, the worst winter tire I have ever owned was Hankook W300, and generally worst tire I have ever owned was Kumho Ecsta Platinum LX.
