Tires (Summer/Winter/All-Season)

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.

 

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.

 

"kooks"

 

Can we call Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company "Muricas" since Hankook/Hangook is Korea?

Maybe Continental AG could be "Pruzzys" (Prussian) being established in 1871.

 

Nah, Goodyear could be Goodies.
Not on my car, though.

My 'kooks are off, my knockies are on.

 

We’ll stick with “Hakkas” though, mkay?

 

You can. Mine are wrg4, not hakkapellittas, so I'm sticking with knockies.

 

I know how you feel

 

Yesterday, I exchanged my summer kooks for my winter bibs.
(As guide.michelin.com explains: "mascot's name is actually Bibendum (or Bib for short)")

 

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.

 

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.

 

All mounted up and ready for when the car shows up.

 

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.

 

Basil with his new winter boots. Nokian WRG4.
That’s the amount of snow that shut down Vancouver

 

I saw video clips of the snow...glad you didn't get stuck!

 

My friend was out in his Wrx hooning

 

Not with those tires!

 

Ok, A) great picture, B) love those Loop Spoke wheels, and C) yeah that’s not a lot of snow.