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Tires Laufenn or WEST LAKE
I’m not convinced that Chinese tires are terrible, it depends on the brand. ZC tires, who make Westlake and Arisun, I think makes a good product, and have arguably the most advanced automated tire manufacturing for any consumer tires. If you handed me that list and said, you need tires today, these are the brands we have in stock, I’d go with Westlake.
Pros: good product, advanced manufacturing
I've always mounted/balanced westlake winter tires onto used cars at my dealer. They're cheap and readily available.
Pros: cheap, readily available
I worked as a tyre fitter and wheel alignment mechanic for quite a number of years and those Laufenn would be by far the best and are actually quite good tyres. Have them on my BMW.
Pros: quite good tires
Vehicle:
BMW
Laufenn if you can afford it, these use the old patterns from Hankook and are essentially a sister company to them. I deal with tyres daily and would rate these above any of the other options you've been pushed towards.
Pros: above other options
Pretty much all of those tyres are decent, I use Laufenn Z and S series (which are made by Hankook) on the back of 2 of my high performance cars as I was getting sick of paying pilot sport or eagle money too regularly and they are honestly comparable.
Pros: comparable to pilot sport
Cons: paying pilot sport money
They were awesome and very, very grippy when thick (and warmed up). But once you wear half of the thread, the grip changes considerably. And it becomes dangerous below that.
Pros: very grippy when thick
Cons: grip changes considerably
Tried westlake once, good first couple of months, by the end of the first year the wet grip degraded a fair bit.
Pros: good first months
Cons: wet grip degraded
I,d trust a Laufen over an arroyo based on the overall treads, though typically the arroyos will last a little bit longer.
Pros: trust Laufen, overall treads
Cons: arroyos last longer
You got majorly scammed. These are trash china westlake tires. They are poor braking, poor handling tires.
Cons: poor braking, poor handling
Vehicle:
Nissan Sentra
Westlakes are garbage.
Cons: are garbage
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