Jonathan Zmuda
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- Car
- FX50
- Name
- Jonathan Zmuda
Previously I’ve run the 265/45 Michelin Latitude Touring HP - “fine” tire, at best, and in oem size, but poor tread life.
Then I bought a set of OEM sized Pirelli P Zero summers simply because they were on sale for half price on tire rack and I wanted to experience at least once what a summer tire would be like on the FX. The P Zeros looked great and they handled well, but unless you were really pushing it, you actually couldn’t tell that much of a difference between the Michelin latitudes and the P zeros surprisingly. I guess the all wheel drive and driving dynamics are so good that it canceled out some of the tire performance differences except at the limits. The P Zeros wore woefully - I was practically at the wear bars in about 10,000 miles and then got a small nail in the front passenger and just decided to go ahead and replace them. Never had tires wear so fast, and that was with 5000 mile rotations.
So, I ended up like many others with the 295/40/21 Continental Extreme Contact DWS 06 Plus and overall I will say that I’m extremely satisfied with the look and feel and have zero regrets. I swore to myself that my next set of tires was going to be the Michelin pilot sport AS but after reading all of the reviews between these two tires with the Contis coming out on top, and the more aggressive tread pattern of the continentals, I decided to give them a shot. Also cheaper by about 50$ per tire.
Long story short, so far so good day 1. Once again it’s hard to tell a tremendous amount of difference - the car still drives great and hopefully this will keep me out of a ditch if we ever get our normal winter weather and should hopefully get me about three years worth of service.
Then I bought a set of OEM sized Pirelli P Zero summers simply because they were on sale for half price on tire rack and I wanted to experience at least once what a summer tire would be like on the FX. The P Zeros looked great and they handled well, but unless you were really pushing it, you actually couldn’t tell that much of a difference between the Michelin latitudes and the P zeros surprisingly. I guess the all wheel drive and driving dynamics are so good that it canceled out some of the tire performance differences except at the limits. The P Zeros wore woefully - I was practically at the wear bars in about 10,000 miles and then got a small nail in the front passenger and just decided to go ahead and replace them. Never had tires wear so fast, and that was with 5000 mile rotations.
So, I ended up like many others with the 295/40/21 Continental Extreme Contact DWS 06 Plus and overall I will say that I’m extremely satisfied with the look and feel and have zero regrets. I swore to myself that my next set of tires was going to be the Michelin pilot sport AS but after reading all of the reviews between these two tires with the Contis coming out on top, and the more aggressive tread pattern of the continentals, I decided to give them a shot. Also cheaper by about 50$ per tire.
Long story short, so far so good day 1. Once again it’s hard to tell a tremendous amount of difference - the car still drives great and hopefully this will keep me out of a ditch if we ever get our normal winter weather and should hopefully get me about three years worth of service.
. Plus, the selection of tires in the 265 size is terrible - moving up to 295 gives a world of additional choices.
