Tires (Summer/Winter/All-Season)

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My car came with Pirelli P7 summer tires. I just put Continental Extreme Contact AS tires on the original 17" wheels. $1800 or so for winter wheels and tires, and these were about $750, so net maybe $300-$400 depending on what I can sell the Pirellis for. That's a major difference, and our other car has winter tires for those tough days.

The Continentals are much smoother, somewhat quieter and still reasonably crisp turning. Can't speak to traction, except that they feel planted (and the traction control kicked in on either tire when floored!). It looks like I'm getting ~4.4 mi/kwh with either tire.
 
carrrl said:
I believe a few of us have Nokian WR G4 now - curious of anyone has similar experience to me. They are quite loud, which I expected over the stock summers.

That odd part is it gets much worse when accelerating. Sounds as if it’s losing traction or as if I’m driving on a gravel road. Punching it for a little burst does it every time (ex. starting at 20mph hit it until I reach 30mph.) Nice easy acceleration throughout has no issues, but where is the fun in that?
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Mine growled for the first 50miles when I accelerated hard, then went much quieter. Maybe I needed to knock the edges of the sipes off? The car feels a little more nimble. Range is down a little, I'm unsure of the tyre range hit as I also put some roofbars on... Noise, I think they are a bit louder than kooks. But I have extra wind noise clouding things. Roofbars coming back off next week.
In warm and wet, they are notch down in grip from the 'kooks. Dry, they feel pretty good. On my R53, they were great on snow and ice.
 
teslarati97 said:
I think @Puppethead is still looking to replace a punctured Hakka R3. The specific tire dimensions are hard to come by in USA.
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Today I finally found and ordered a pair of replacements R3s (195/55R16), supposed to get them early next week. Then replace the two from the end with the sidewall puncture and keep the non-punctured one as a spare in case this happens again. I still have 9mm of tread depth on my original set, so I think this will work out pretty well.
 
Report: just put on the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s (had about 16k mi on the stock hankooks). Paid $5xx, taking advantage of the Nov deals. Went the long way home yesterday to take a roundabout at the offramp after my normal. Impressive grip, no squealing at all. Can't wait to find more roundabouts on my commute.

Apologies to those in areas w real Winter.
 
ghost said:
Report: just put on the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s (had about 16k mi on the stock hankooks). Paid $5xx, taking advantage of the Nov deals. Went the long way home yesterday to take a roundabout at the offramp after my normal. Impressive grip, no squealing at all. Can't wait to find more roundabouts on my commute.

Apologies to those in areas w real Winter.
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It's a balmy -19F over here!
 
I just swapped to my winter tires Tuesday. Always a different feel/sound I forget about. I go from 17 inch (205) rims to 16 (195) of course we had a warm spell yesterday and today. My car is sidelined until a chip/crack in the windshield is replaced tomorrow. It can officially really snow now.
 
I finally got Continental ExtremeContact DWS Plus tires and so far so good! I don't think this car will ever see snow but I went with all-season tires in case I have to drive it when it drops below freezing.
 
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