Best all season tires?

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elkinm

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The title says most of it. I am looking for good all season tires. I want good wet and dry traction but snow traction is also extremely important. The size is 195/65-15 for an Infinity G20.

I am looking for more of the best tire and not as much for the cheepest tire. I've spent a lot of time reading info and reviews at TireTrack.com and the best I found seems to be the Brigestone Turanza LS for $89 each.

I was wondering if anyone can suggest a good tire or a good site that has tests of many tires in dry/wet and snow enviroments.

Thanks
 
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BZeto

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I have had the best service ordering from Whalentire.com. Cant recommend a tire, but you should check Whalentire for great prices.
 
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Those Bridgestones have the UNI-T AQII. Excellent choice. I have the Potenza RE-950 version and am quite happy with them.
 
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Originally posted by: elkinm
The title says most of it. I am looking for good all season tires. I want good wet and dry traction but snow traction is also extremely important. The size is 195/65-15 for an Infinity G20.

I am looking for more of the best tire and not as much for the cheepest tire. I've spent a lot of time reading info and reviews at TireTrack.com and the best I found seems to be the Brigestone Turanza LS for $89 each.

I was wondering if anyone can suggest a good tire or a good site that has tests of many tires in dry/wet and snow enviroments.

Thanks
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I still prefer Michelin for great all-season tires. Can't go wrong with a baby sitting in a tire, commercial.
 
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civad

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I got a set (of 4) of Cooper Trendsetters today. The mechanic that I go to get my car back in shape (after over 3000 miles of hard driving every month :)) would NOT want me to install any other tires for my '98 Mazda Protege. I asked him about Bridgestone/Michelin, but he looked at me as if I was crazy.
 
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elkinm

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Thanks everyone,

freejack, i've been considerng the 950s as well but I read that they loose lots of traction as it gets colder and in the snow. How sould you rate them in snow or ice traction?

Iron, Michelins are expensive in general and I would think that they were very good but the tiretrack review and tests don't show them in a very good light lately. Are the ones you use realy good, espetialy in the snow? And also which specific tire do you have?

civad, I don't know about Cooper though. The ones I had a while ago were not to impressive. Good treadwear but bad traction. Any more information about the Trendsetters, maybe they are better.

Thanks
Any more suggestions are welcome.
 
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Originally posted by: elkinm
Thanks everyone,

freejack, i've been considerng the 950s as well but I read that they loose lots of traction as it gets colder and in the snow. How sould you rate them in snow or ice traction?

Iron, Michelins are expensive in general and I would think that they were very good but the tiretrack review and tests don't show them in a very good light lately. Are the ones you use realy good, espetialy in the snow? And also which specific tire do you have?

civad, I don't know about Cooper though. The ones I had a while ago were not to impressive. Good treadwear but bad traction. Any more information about the Trendsetters, maybe they are better.

Thanks
Any more suggestions are welcome.
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I use snow tires because of where I live. I have all-seasons in front. My snows are Michelin Artic Alpins (p225 70 15) and nothing is better in the snow except studded snow tires.

Cooper makes great tires too. They are actually an old tire manufacturer. They do have a website to check out.
 
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Aquaman

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I have the Dunlop SP Sport A2 for the last two sets of tires I have on my 90' Civic Si.

Great tires & a good value.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
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STOP THIS THREAD-- MICHELLIN PILOT SPORT A/S

IS THE ONLY GOOD ALL SEASON TIRE
 
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elkinm

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The pilot sport a/s sounds very good but it is not available in my size. And looking that the micheling website specs, i think I would prefer the MXM4 or the Energy MXV4 S8 or Plus dew to better and more balanced traction. Most, other then the MXV4 Plus are not available in my size either and form the tirerack test results I like the Turenza more dew to wet traction scores.

I have the Dunlop SP Sport A2 tires on my Corola. They are good, but definetly not in the same league as the brigestones mentioned. They offer great value for the money, but in this case I want a better tire even if for ore money.

Thanks again.
 
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m2kewl

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just got dunlop sp 5000s - supposedly very good in snow. already put 150 miles on it and wet/dry drip is very good.
 
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cavemanmoron

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you have 195/65/"R"15

you could go to 185/70/r15,and prob get a less expensive tire;

Buy a Snow tire if it snows where you live.

tirerack.com is good,

Sears used to make a nice snow tire,but,I have not looked there in a long time.

Nokia is a good tire too,but,not super cheap.
 
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walmart..goodyear viva2 tires @ ~$35/each. 60k miles, Traction = A

btw-all season tires do ok in light snow, but if u really want to drive in heavy snow conditions, switch to snow tires.

no all-season tire can give u the traction in snow compared to snow tires
 
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The tires i got had Treadwear of 700 Traction A Temperature B.

i paid $129.00 a piece for them, probably a bit high, but it's just too much hassle mail ordering them, carrying them around untill i find someone to put em on for me etc etc. so i just bought them at STS Tire.

oh ya, they were Toyo's.
 
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T2T III

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Originally posted by: JEDI
walmart..goodyear viva2 tires @ ~$35/each. 60k miles, Traction = A

btw-all season tires do ok in light snow, but if u really want to drive in heavy snow conditions, switch to snow tires.

no all-season tire can give u the traction in snow compared to snow tires
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Actually, I have these on my Taurus. They are not very good wet weather tires ... not nearly as good as the Michelin MXV4 tires on my other vehicle. The Viva 2 tires are cheap, but I'm afraid to puch my car in certain conditions. Since I just had them installed this past spring, I don't know how they'll perform during the snowy season ... time will tell.

 
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I didn't see if you said what kind of car you had, so I guess it's a car. If it's an SUV, though, I am gonna suggest Bridgestone Dueler A/T REVOs for it...VERY VERY good tire.


Oops, just caught that you had a G20. Disregard my post!
 
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WinkOsmosis

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Get bigger wheels and put Dunlop FM901s on them, and put SNOW TIRES on the stock econobox wheels. Why compromise when you want the "best"?
 
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Originally posted by: LordSegan
STOP THIS THREAD-- MICHELLIN PILOT SPORT A/S

IS THE ONLY GOOD ALL SEASON TIRE
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Stop shouting man.

Also, Michelin = not all it's cracked up to be.



 
Iron Woode

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: CFster
Originally posted by: LordSegan
STOP THIS THREAD-- MICHELLIN PILOT SPORT A/S

IS THE ONLY GOOD ALL SEASON TIRE
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Stop shouting man.

Also, Michelin = not all it's cracked up to be.
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Yeah, right.

Thats is why Michelin is used on most performance cars and bikes in Europe.

Michelin makes great tires and has a great reputation. Unlike, say, Firestone. ;)

 
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CFster

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Nothing but bad experiences in my line of work - and among other things, I'm in the tire business.

 
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elkinm

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We have a corola with Dunlop SA2s, a new Accord with Michelin with MXV4 Plus. Both sets are OK but nothing to great. And the tests at tirerack show Turanza LS being better in wet conditions. I whent to just tire to check out what they have asking for the best snow and wet traction from an all season tire and they recomended the Dunlop SA2 or a new GoodYear Eagle GT HR but it seems new as tiretrack has no tests and no reviews for it. They did not have Brigestones but they said that the the GT HR is beter then the Michelin in wet and snow which isn't much as Michelin is lacking in that department (MXV4 Plus).

Anybody have the GTs and can coment on them? I don't like the idea of drectional treads as it may leed to uneven wear on one side but they have better traction in general.

Also, can anyone explain what the categories of High performance, performance, touring, or grand touring mean and which one should be better for snow?

Thanks again
 
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