A Tire Thread

I need new tired. Luckily my set that got sliced and diced in frisco i paid 120 for the 4 to help a friend out. Gotra buy another set though. Have some winter i wanna save. Last yeat was the first yeat i had winter tired ever lol.

Not 100% sure ill keep living in CA but hoping to lwave ny winters out here and buy a new all season set. Idk. I still have to fix my passanger caliper. Been lazy though.

All 3 are really good tires, it would come down to the deal and dealers that are around to help out with any repairs needed when out on the road. I personally run Goodyear(DuraTrac) on my Tacoma and love them. I got a good deal on them and there is likely a dealer for Goodyear in everytown.

What subie?

Why do you want touring tires? Are you old?

Haven't tried the tires listed, but:

I've been using Continental extreme contact dws 06's on my 2010 A4 and they seem to work really well. I've driven on some real icy roads on the east coast and even in a skid, they're pretty controllable, though that could be partially due to quattro being so predictable? Maybe you'd want something with more grip, but I feel you may want to consider another set of wheels and snow tires if you have the money.

finderHaven't tried the tires listed, but:

I've been using Continental extreme contact dws 06's on my 2010 A4 and they seem to work really well. I've driven on some real icy roads on the east coast and even in a skid, they're pretty controllable, though that could be partially due to quattro being so predictable? Maybe you'd want something with more grip, but I feel you may want to consider another set of wheels and snow tires if you have the money.

I have the same tires on my AllTrack and had a set on my wrx before that. Excellent tires all around.

mystery3What subie?

Why do you want touring tires? Are you old?

Lol what? I drive a legacy and as I said live in Columbus where we get maybe 12" of snow all year and rains a fuck ton so getting dedicated winter tires is pointless and I don't have the cash for that either. Even if I lived in NE Ohio still I wouldn't get winter tires.

The tires I listed happen to be some of the best non-winter tires for snow with good treadlife which is important since I make a lot of trips through snow storms each year and drive about 20k miles a year. Grand touring tires tend to perform better in snow than the ultra high performance and high performance tires. My current tires are just a basic high performance tire that came with the car. They're noticeably weird in anything deeper than a dusting and sometimes hard to predict; they're great in the rain though. All 3 of the above tires are twice as good in snow as my current ones and similar if not better in wet and dry tests.

If you can't tell, snow is a big factor but also rain. I ended up going with the yokohama tires (firestone a close second) because they still performed twice as good as my current tires in snow stopping tests and were best in class for dry and wet driving which is the majority of what I do. I don't need snow tires and can handle anything that's on a roadway unless it's too deep that my car starts floating. IMHO winter driving is all about how you drive. Obviously snow and studded snow tires will allow you to accelerate, turn, and stop more aggressively, but I haven't encountered a situation yet where I have NEEDED snow tires. So unless 5ft drops and they don't plow, I'll be good with GT tires. Even out west with shitty economy rental tires I've been fine in the snow.

So why does this make me old lol?


Edit: I based a majority of my decisions on tire rack tests because while reviews are helpful, these are the most comprehensive reviews with some objective stats that I could find. The yokohama were also about $100 cheaper and in my personal experience on my current tires, the tread lasts forever. Only reason I'm getting new ones is because they've got a broken belt or two and are starting to wear unevenly; was gonna upgrade anyway this fall bacause of their shit snow performance. Otherwise I somehow have 75% of my tread remaining after 65k miles. No fucking clue how.

**This post was edited on Jun 5th 2020 at 2:01:34am

Shop around. The best is getting new used tires. Only issue is usually there are only 3 of them.


But everywhere has rando sales that you don’t know about until you go in and ask. Remember you don’t need your exact size just be within one size each way.

Check out Firestone discovery radials for the hell of it

Damn my old tires sucked. Just got the new ones put on. Like getting new running shoes. Feels great. The tread is awesome

Turd__AuthorityLol what? I drive a legacy and as I said live in Columbus where we get maybe 12" of snow all year and rains a fuck ton so getting dedicated winter tires is pointless and I don't have the cash for that either. Even if I lived in NE Ohio still I wouldn't get winter tires.

So why does this make me old lol?


**This post was edited on Jun 5th 2020 at 2:01:34am

Sacrificing performance for comfort and tread-life makes you sound old. Ultra high performance all seasons are where it's at if you only have one car. If truck something with decent manners on pavement and good performance in mud and snow.

mystery3Sacrificing performance for comfort and tread-life makes you sound old. Ultra high performance all seasons are where it's at if you only have one car. If truck something with decent manners on pavement and good performance in mud and snow.

Ehhh these are better than ultra high performance for snow sooooooooooo. Slightly less as good for rain and dry than ultra high performance but that's not as important. I think you're generalizing a class of tires rather than what they actually do


Edit: ultra high performance actually have better comfort and noise ratings so I'm actually sacrificing comfort for performance.

**This post was edited on Jun 9th 2020 at 3:32:09pm


Edit again: tread life isn't determined by the class (high vs ultra high vs gt). Treads have durability ratings. There's plenty of high and ultra high tires with longer tread life than some of the GT tires I was peeking.

**This post was edited on Jun 9th 2020 at 3:46:24pm

I actually did look at ultra high performance tires including the ones you said you have. As you can see though if you indirectly compare the test ratings, that's why I chose the yokohama. They're better for my intended use. Better than any ultra high performance in the snow (and I looked at a ton), and marginally worse than ultra high performance in everything else. Their snow performance wasn't as great as the other GT tires but their wet and dry performance was significantly better. Considering they're gonna perform at least twice as good as my current tires in the cold, I took the trade off in snow performance as acceptable and went for better wet/dry performance in the class.

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