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tidester, host
SUVs and Smart Shopper
Goodyear Assurance ComforTred, and
Michelin X-Radial (= Harmony) from Costco.
The total Costco package is certainly less expensive than the Goodyear store. Spread out over 80,000 (or even 50,000) miles, the price difference is relatively insignificant.
Do you have any advice or experience regarding these 2 tires?
Please advise? Thanks.
And, of course, Honda recommends monthly pressure checks anyway, which makes the system useful (if working properly) only as an early warning of a leak.
To be fair, TPMS is a new mandate. It's reliability will improve with time. Until then, all your comments about how little time it takes to check tire pressure should be in printed in bold type in every owner's manual.
Even if it were the only sentence in the OWNER's MANUAL it wouldn't do any good since majority of people don't even open the OWNER's MANUAL. There are just way too many people who "already know everything and don't need to read no stincking manual" :mad:
In all seriousness, is this REALLY a safety feature, or just a tire pressure monitor which is what I expect -- meaning that I could go with 16's and forego the sensors and really have a safe winter...
In all seriousness, is this REALLY a safety feature, or just a tire pressure monitor which is what I expect -- meaning that I could go with 16's and forego the sensors and really have a safe winter...
I am not sure if it is true or not, but the OWNER's MANUAL should shed some light on the issue of VSA not working when TPMS light is on.
Also, OWNER's MANUAL should have revealed the existence of these sensors prior to the visit to the dealership. :P
The Bridgestones are horrible tires - noisy, rough riding and mediocre traction (at best). Treadlife is simply not acceptable.
I am disappointed that Honda chose such cheap OEM tires.
I am looking at Goodyear Fortera tripletreads or Cooper CS4 tires as a replacement.
Any thoughts/recomendations/suggestions????
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I bought the Goodyear Fortera tripletread at Sam's Club. They are great tires, your handling will improve and they are great in snow. I just so happen to try them this weekend in the snow storms we just had in Rhode Island. By the way I drive a 2007 2wd CRV and I had no problems with going through the snow here in Rhode Island
Tell me about these:
noise?
wear?
any decreased fuel economy?
Thanks in advance.
tidester, host
SUVs and Smart Shopper
The ones that came with our CRV are Rated 66 with a 1.8 rating (out
of 10) on Would you buy again and our answer is NO
You can go to this web site for test results:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/surveyresults/surveydisplay.jsp?type=HAS
I don't thing they are noisey, but the CRV is not a Quite car as stated
by Consumer Report & Edmunds in there review of the CRV. It's not
bad but, it's not Quite either.
I only had the tires for 1,200 miles, they are rated for 60,000 miles
I still get between 28 - 30 mpg on the highway and Avg 24.6 all around
I have not seen any milage differents. Mind you I just got these and
really have not taken any trips with them yet.
I currently have a 2008 awd CRV with Nokians, they also appear to be great in the storm that you had (but in Massachusetts), can't decide which is better.
They say the tread life is not so great on the Goodyear tripletreds but I did not have them longer enough as I traded the Escape.
There are a lot of factors to consider in selecting chains. Your owner's manual (if you have) may provide some guidance but I think Snow/Ice winter tires would be a good place to ask. We had a discussion specific to the CR-V in Honda CR-V Winter Driving but that hasn't been very active (yet?).
I found a good overview of tire chains here and you can use Snow/Ice winter tires topic for specifics.
I hope that helps.
tidester, host
SUVs and Smart Shopper
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!
Yokohama just introduced their Parada Spec-X product in Gen3 OEM size. It is still kind of hard to find, but my initial experience in snow with this product, is nothing short of amazing. Load 102/Speed H/Temp A/Traction A and treadware at 420, all within Gen3 OEM specs. Usually you can find this tire in stock in at least one of the five tirerack.com distribution centers. At $107/tire it's price competitive with most of the other options out there.
Bridge Stones # _______ or Continentals # _________?
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalcold.html
I have had a number of Potenza line of tires, and they have been excellent.
www.tirerack.com
I checked out the tire rack reviews for this tire and they seemed pretty positive. Wal-mart had 4 of the other Duelers (the Bridgestone Dueler H/T), but they were reviewed pretty badly. I'm guessing/hoping that is what all these negative comments are in response to.
I wanted to lean towards the Michelins because both the Latitude/Crossover tires were well reviewed and you could do some crazy cash back with them - esp if you bought from Costco (Secret $60 Michelin Tire Rebate - Up to $190 discount off 4 tires purchased before May 31st (YMMV): http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=100363&t=1331105 ) but Costco didn't have any in stock that I could work with and if I ordered them from online, the price they were at were already more expensive than Tirerack.coms.
Anyways, if anyone is interested, Firestone had these tires at $154 a tire and matched tirerack.com's $144 price. All 4 tires w/ fees came out to $617.96.
I then took them to walmart to mount/balance for $50 even to have the lifetime rotation and balance.
I'm curious to know if any of the cheaper, $100ish tires, are good. I could have saved somewhere around $200 if I was to find something close to $100 but I just assumed that everything around $150 is what I would want.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Although not widely available at B&M outfits, but readily available online at tirerack and discount tire, Yokohama Avid Touring are a great tire at a sub-$100 pricetag.
I do need to replace all 4 tires in our family's blue 2004 Accord sedan 4-cyl. Maybe I should look into these for that car if they are the cheapest.