My favorite tire for the typical forester/outback suburb crowd I see at work is still the Continental contiprocontact series. Decent wear, decent performance, easy to install, easy to patch, balance is usually good.
Damn they look good too. MPG hasn't changed, no more road noise than before, and speedo is still accurate (according to Google maps.)
I've always had good performance out of Conti GPs. I've tried other brands but keep coming back to them.
Im currently running falken wildpeak AT3s there kinda heavy and harder to balance than the Toyo open country at3. I got 70k out of my Toyo’s amazing tire better in sloppy conditions than the falkens for sure.
I did Falken wild peak 275/60r20 (but I have 20” wheels). 33s work well
Falken Wildpeak AT3 or the Mickey Thompson Baja Boss are pretty decent tires for your buck.
Wild peaks all dayyyyy
I wanted to post my thoughts after a first winter drive with these Contis. They are stock 19" tires on my R and came with the vehicle. The VikingContact 7s have been more than excellent. Compared to the Conti TS830s, I definitely do not feel like I am at times running a summer tire in the winter. For this winter I feel completely confident in bad conditions like the X Ice 3 was. However, the HUGE plus is on dry conditions which happens a lot during winter here. I always felt the slight sponginess of the X Ice 3 (18s would have made a difference for sure), but these VikingContact 7s in dry are spectacular. They truly do everything in winter extremely well, and I would never think of buying another tire again...they are that good.
Michelin MXV4 to Continental DWS
DWS superior in everyway except getting bubbles. It would bubble at every pothole. Went to Michelin Premier A/S it was a downgrade in everything except bubbling still better than MXV4
I think the ProContacts are known to be junk. I upgraded to Continental DWS. If those fail, I'm switching brands for life.
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