Question by Ruth: How to decide which tire to buy if reviews are mixed for each of them?
I want to get good 195/65/15 tires for my car. When I read the reviews of each tire, they are mixed. Some people criticize the tire a lot and some praise it a lot. So how can you know if its good or bad? Some of the reviews even say “dangerous tire” while some say, “lasted 70,000 miles without problem”. What’s going on? The tire manufacturer always praises their tire and so does the tire dealer salesman. For example, I can’t spend more than $ 82 on a tire and there are lots of brands which fall into this price range. So how can I know which brand of tire to buy? Besides the price of tire, what else can you know?
or should i not pay any attention to the online reviews and grades and just buy the cheapest or best price? in this case it happens to be bridgestone tire for $ 63. However 12 online reviews harshly criticized this brand.
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Answer by Pat
I bought a set of Bridgestones and the price was fair and thus far it has been
and excelent tire..
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Personally I wouldn’t buy a tire that didn’t do well in Consumer Reports testing. I might not buy the best tires but they need to be the best available in my price range. You could visit your local library to get the actual test results of the hundreds of tires they tested.
Normally it is difficult to decide for a common man who is not an engineer or a material scientist.
As you rightly said, many of the tyre companies, employ professionals to write good about their own brands.
Let me tell you how I choose a tyre.
(i) Go for a reputed brand that specifies an expiry date
(ii) When you go for a tyre that claims very high mileage, that means the tyre rubber compound is hard will provide lesser grip. so go for a softer compound tyre.
This means, it should have a medium service rating and required speed rating.
These characteristics can be found on the tyre itself (see url)
(iii) I’ll look for a tread that i feel will give more contact with the road and at the same time will have voids inbetween to trap water
All the best
Finally you should get the feel factor that helps you in deciding.
Well, on the plus side P195/65R15 (or 195/65R15 if your car is European in origin) is just about the most popular tire size on the planet which means you are limited to just a few hundred different tire options. Adn the other good news is that most of them are at least pretty good althoug certainly some are better than others. User review comments on places like http://www.tirerack.com should be taken with a huge grain of salt as they are often (usually) written by imbeciles with no knowledge of tires whatsoever. I have seen countless cases of people writing reviews on what was clearly the wrong tire, blaming the tire when a road hazard or mechanical problem with their car was clearly at fault and so on. Consumer Reports is not immune to getting it completely wrong either. Case in point, the Falken Ziex 512, Falken Ziex 912, Dunlop D60A2, Pirelli P-Zero Nero, or the Dayton Timberline AT or the…. but I digress.
The best tire for you is going to be highly dependent upon what kind of vehicle you have, how and where you drive and what your budget is, only the latter of which you have provided. Tires I would recommend for someone living in say southern California would be quite different than what I would recommend to someone living in Minnesota. My recommendations would also be different if you have a car like say a Volkswagon or Audi which requires a H speed rated tire vs. say a Toyota Corolla where only a S speed rating is required.
If your vehicle requires only a S or T speed rated tire the Pirelli P4 Four Season, Yokohama AVID TRZ, Firestone Premier Touring, General Altimax RT (in roughly that order) are all brilliant and within your budget. The Yokohama has been the class leader for years but the Pirelli in my eperience is the superior all-around tire – and I do have extensive experience driving on all of these in every kind of weather. If you live where it doesn’t rain a lot or snow at all the Kuhmo Solus KR-21 would be a great value as it is cheap and long wearing but gives up a bit of bad weather traction to the others.
If you need an H-rated tire your choices change substantially to stay in your budget. You are lucky in that the Yokohama AVID TRZ is now available in an H speed rating and at only $ 73 at Tire Rack is an incredible value – actually cheaper than the T-rated version. It is a better tire and better value than anything else out there at the moment in your budget. I’d snap these up before they realize their mistake. Yokohama’s AVID ENVigor is a great choice if you want a sportier tire and don’t ever see snow. The General Altimax HP will work wherever you live and keep the budget down.
Stay away from private-label brands. For the same money you get the best technology from 10 years ago. No thanks.
Consumer Reports is your best bet.
Btw, paying more often doesnt get you more. Lookit CR’s ratings.
“You get what you pay for” is a con that sellers run on buyers that exploits their ignorance.