I really liked my Goodyear F1 All Seasons when I was living in Mass. They are an excellent combo for all weather conditions and performance.
The Kumho and the Conti were nearly identical when I had a chance to drive on them. but the Goodyears were a little quieter and should also be a little more durable.
A little late to the thread, but I put on 17" Goodyear UltraGrip Performance on the stock S-Line wheels on my car, and I have to say they've been phenomenal so far. I prefer a performance winter tyre for various reasons but I was right astonished at how good they are even in fairly deep snow. So day and night with the factory ContiCrap all-seasons it's not funny (those tyres will never again go on my car until lease return!). The UltraGrip Performance is apparently a tyre not originally meant/designed for sale in NA but rather Goodyear decided to bring it over from their line in Europe. So while it's a performance winter like the Eagle UltraGrip GW3, it has a totally different design and is the alternate performance winter from Goodyear (I guess it fills in some of the sizes the GW3 doesn't cover like the size that so happens to be on the A3). I got them installed the day of the first real good snow storm we had in the GTA (was supposed to get them earlier but they did not come in on time) and wow were they a God-send that day! I could not even get up the small incline to get into the business plaza where tyre shop was with the ContiPro all-seasons. It was right embarassing and even the EDL couldn't help me make it up! I had to take the side entrance/ramp which was luckily right opposite a street so I backed up down the street and went like 50km/h, hit the incline and just made it up without coming to a halt. Once the winters were on, it was like I was in another world, where snow had not been nearly as deep (though it was actually piling up in reality over the time I was at the tyre shop!). Good thing too because I had to drive to Sudbury that day and without them I never would have made it to Barrie without either dying or calling it quits, lol. 120km/h no problem where most people refused to go over 80; changing lanes to pass people over unplowed/undriven sections between tyre tracks, no problem--car was stable and predictable even at speed and changing lanes over those sections. Very impressed to say the least. Anyway that's my winter tyres story
ya w rated you get the superior handling in dry summer conditions and it also handles and bites extremly well in the snow. It also cuts right threw water with its shutes in the tread design. You should really check this tire out. I couldnt be any more plz with thise tire on my car. I always hated goodyear but they really did make extremly good w rated a/s tire this time.
check out the Goodyear Eagle GT's. $500 a set. 225/45/17 Best new w rated all season tire out there now. Plus there half the price of many others in its category. i love mine.
generally i buy BFG or Michelin, as when i worked in a garage, they were the best wearing, least problematic, and best performing tires for my needs.... Falkens/goodyears/bridgestones wear great tires (assuming they bought the correct tire for their application) but each had their troubles... often times it was customer maintinence, people never aligned, checked pressure, or other random issues... other times it was the tires generally wearing out too damned fast, as seen with most of the newer goodyears, and on a trip to test drive for goodyear, they even told me that they were having some issues with wear... bridgestones just never impressed me for the price, as there was a BFG G-force in the mix that was always as good...
I got the same exact set up on my wife's Jetta. Good tires for all season driving, very sticky with awesome handling in the rain/snow and great handling when dry...
Goodyear Eagle F1's ftw!
I have them on myh '06 and they're not bad as far as traction goes. The only drawback is, mine are half worn and they have gotten noisier than all hell.
I have had this problem too after I got my car back from the shop and had almost new BFGoodrich KDW2's put on. Ever since, the car instantly pulls over to the right to a point where I was always holding the steering wheel a little left everyplace I went. I set the PSI on both sides equally and that helped some, but it still does it so I hope this thread comes up with something. I was just about to go back to the shop and have them re-align it but the guy swears they already did it. Maybe the steering wheel isn't on correctly, they installed a new airbag as well. It makes the car difficult to control around twisties too.
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