Need new tires....those Goodyear Eagle LS's are junk!!

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Meghan54

Meghan54

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So, have put about 3K miles on our '03 Nissan Murano, which came with Goodyear Eagle LS 235/65-18 tires, and my assessment of those tires are they're junk. Horrible rain traction, not so good dry traction, noisy, and on and on.

Have a few new brands in consideration......your thoughts on them? My list includes General Grabber HTS, Continental CrossContact LX20, Michelin Latitude Tour HP, and Yokohama Parada Spec-X.

Or am I missing a tire I should seriously consider?
 
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JCH13

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What do you want to get out of the tires? What are your priorities?

Obligatory: DWS
 
Meghan54

Meghan54

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JCH13 said:
What do you want to get out of the tires? What are your priorities?

Obligatory: DWS
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Better everything.....better dry and wet grip, should be able to handle some light snow without acting like it's on ice, better handling. Those Goodyears almost refuse to settle into a turn, almost like they're continually hunting for the right angle or something.

As for grip, as an example, in a curve across a bridge in Conneticut which had steel joints between the sections of concrete, the Goodyears would skitter like they'd hit patches of ice, something the Firestone Firehawks I had on my old Blazer never did. Unnerving behavior. Also, the damned things tramline like hell.

Don't think I could put worse tires on the Murano, well, except some other Goodyears like the Integrity line. Those I lived with for a few months on an older car and they were really worse than the Eagle LS's I've got now.


I've also stumbled across an old brand I used a few years back, some Falken ZE-912's. Liked those tires when I had them on an old Plymouth Acclaim, but the tread life wasn't very good. And I have no idea about how they'd do in snow. I'd buy a set today if I knew how they'd act in snow, tread life be damned......almost.
 
Meghan54

Meghan54

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MotF Bane said:
Are you the person who just moved up to the Cape Cod area? Buy dedicated snow tires.
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Yeah, I'm that Sad Sack. Thought about snows, but then they're useless come March. They say snowfall usually isn't bad on the Cape....they being long time residents. Of course, with my luck, if I follow their conventional wisdom, this winter will have the heaviest snowfall on record. Just my luck lately.
 
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CraigRT

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They are an OE level tire.
IMO they are never any good.
The Eagle RS-A's on my Honda are pretty craptacular too.
Haven't really had a stock tire on a car that was really any good. I always love it when the crap OE tires are due for replacement. Time for something good!
 
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CurseTheSky

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Absolutely no idea if they come in your size, but I just put Continental ExtremeContact DWS's on my Fusion (225/45-18), and Firestone Destination A/T's on the Sport Trac (255/70-16). I've been very happy with both, and I live in Eastern CT.
 
foghorn67

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I have Eagle RSA 2's or RS 2's. I forgot. But they are junk. They will track every part of uneven pavement, every crack, every tar strip. Unnerving.
I am going to look into Cooper tires. Decent tires from what I hear.
 
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ballmode

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wow those eagle LS's are going to be on sale at walmart for black friday. I'm not getting them now!
 
Meghan54

Meghan54

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Well, bought a set of Contis, the CrossContact LX20's. We'll see how they fare. Just gotta be better than those Goodyears.
 
exdeath

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HarryLui said:
I like Nitto and Falken tires, but I have no idea how they are on snow.
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I'm going to guess terrible. Those are performance oriented tires usually. Shallow treads, wide contact bands, stiff sidewalls, soft compounds, etc.
 
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i worked as a tire changer for awhile... pretty easy to tell what brands wear better then others.

eagle tires always suck

cooper tires are always good

michelin is good until they harden up toward the end of their life.

and then you can always gamble with other no name budget brands. i dont know why, but sometimes you can get some cheapo tires like kumho's that are actually pretty awesome. the ones i have on my truck are incredible for what i paid.... but then again my bro tried the same model tires on his a year later and they sucked. i think quality control on cheap tires is severely lacking, and the rubber compounds they use change from batch to batch.... thats why its not a bad thing to pay a little more for cooper tires or the like.
 
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