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04-04-2012, 12:46

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What are your favorite SUV Tires

For one of the most common and important consumer items, tire buying is not simple.

First you have to decide what you want because tire design is a compromise. You can have quiet, wet grip, heat resistance, high-speed stability, rolling resistance, smoothness, ice traction, snow traction, cornering grip, etc., but not all together because generally if a tire gives more of one characteristic it has to give less of another.

Then there's cost. Has anybody in history paid list price for one? Tire shopping is like going to an oriental bazzar.

Then there's sizing. When I got replacements for my first car there was one size for the 53 Chev. Now it's a major research project to get the optimal dimensions for what you want.

Installation? In the old days when the tread wore (and they sure did) the only question was reuse or replace the tube. Now I expect to have to revisit the installer because it's leaking at the rim or the kid didn't know about directional installation or how to handle wide mags.

Sorry I can't give you an answer rather than some grumpy generalizations but an easy and safe decision is to get what the factory put on.

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04-06-2012, 08:40

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What are your favorite SUV Tires

I wooda thunk. Like batteries, the best in one size is usually a different best brand in another. Some Continentals did test low, but by far the best snow traction was from a Continental winter model.

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