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dirty skirt -- thanks for comment. I would note that Michelin mxv8 is a passenger tyre, and thus is purposed for snappy handling and tight cornering. The "road" tyres for SUVs have an "off-road" component to them (typically a 90%/10% split), which is provided by chunkier tread blocks with larger dis...

I guess I am going to do micro-updates. Over two days, I put in maybe 100 km. The tyres were really soft... softer than I expected. This gave a soft ride and wallowing of the car when turning. I thought the problem could be in low pressure in the tyres. The recommended pressure on the label on the c...

I narrowed my selection down to: Michelin Latitude Tour HP Cooper CS4 Touring BF Goodrich Long Trail T/A Tour Curiously, this is the list of tyres going down in their quality of "premiumness". By the end of the day, I decided that Michelin was too expensive (RRP $265, but I found a shop at $240 a po...

Geez... I often hear on this forum or on another: "Talk to your tyre shop, they are the specialists and they will advise you a tyre according to your need". I have always been vary of such suggestions due to my negative experience, but today I decided to give it a shot. I went to the local Bob Jane ...

The OP may also want to consider buying the newly-released tyre Pirelli Scorpion Verde All-Season . The picture of the tyre is here. It looks like a replacement of the Scorpion STR model, which was an on-road tyre. "Verde" is green in Italian, which signifies that less energy was spent for manufactu...

I did a lot of search of a tyre for my Outback as one could see from another thread; I evaluated the passenger (=on-road) tyres as well. It came out from my search for people's opinions that the best-handling best-bang-for-buck passenger tyres which would fit my car (205/70R15) would be Michelin Ene...

My next tyres that I'm going for is Cooper CS4 tyres, I got a price while back for $186ea for 17". Where did you get such a price ? I've contacted a couple of Torque Tyres shops and a Cooper office, their price for 205/70R15 is $206. The Tyre Power chain sells it for $225 :shock: It appears that th...

ORX, what do you mean, "grandtreks wear like motherf..." ? Are they too soft, and wear out too quickly ? Or they are too hard, and you could never wear out that bloody rubber ? At the moment, I am looking for the road tyre which would not chip when I drive over the unsealed road (somewhere in the na...

Nearly forgot , Michelin is god in my book . They won't be top of the list in any of the tyre testers test but are often the best overall in class . I read that BF Goodrich is the daughter company of Michelin, and Michelin designs tyres for them. So, the tyre BF Goodrich Long Trail T/A Tour should ...

Just to finish off the discussion :-) Here is an older, but quite detailed review of tyres... admittedly, mostly All-Terrain (50% off-road, 50% on-road) as opposed to the Highway-Terrain tyres (10% off-road, 90% on-road), http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/tips_tyres.php And here is an opinion of the guy ...

I've already made my mind up, My next tyres that I'm going for is Cooper CS4 tyres, First of all, many thanks for reply. Have you spoken to the people who have driven their SUVs with Cooper CS4 on them ? Did they tell you it steers better (or whatever) than the run-of-the-mill Bridgestone Dueller o...

Hi there, I used to drive Subaru Impreza with Yokohama A.drive tyres on it (and was very satisfied -- a very soft tyre), but recently I got another car, Subaru Outback with Pirelli Scorpion STR (205/70R15) tyres on it. Straight away I noticed that the grip in dry and rain was good, however cornering...