Tire Recommendations for 06 Vette

[Murlo26]

4/32" is fine for most summer driving conditions, but smart move replacing them before the snow flies.

Yea, like I said that was the best anywhere on the tires, most were 2/32 :(

Tuesday when it was raining all day, 70mph on the freeway and my car was floating on the water, was kinda scary. I had to drive to map going 60mph, took forever!

Yea, I think with snow coming its time to get new tires, these made it almost 30,000 miles, not bad for OEM tires, I think they are 340 wear or something so not sure if that is normal or not but its time to go.

[asshanson]

Useful information here. I need to replace the tires on the Escort, they have been sucking the past year or so. Fortunately we don't put many miles on it, maybe 10k/year, so I don't care too much about treadwear, 40k miles out of a set will be plenty.

[asshanson]

Anybody have experience with these? Tire size is 185/60/15.
General Altimax HP
General AltiMAX RT (and RT43 which is new it looks like)
Hankook Optimo H727
Sumitomo Touring LS T

[dsmghost]

Anybody have experience with these? Tire size is 185/60/15.
General Altimax HP
General AltiMAX RT (and RT43 which is new it looks like)
Hankook Optimo H727
Sumitomo Touring LS T

IMO the general altimax tires are a decent all season tire but suck for winter traction.

[asshanson]

Wow, I should have looked at the tire rack ratings first, they do have horrible snow ratings.
2nd place in All Season Standard Touring is the Firestone Precision Touring at $63/ea, about half the cost of the 1st place Michelin Defender at $114/ea. Looked at the P7 but they don't make it in a 15" wheel.

[Murlo26]

I just got the Pirelli P7's put on last week, loving them so far, comfy, road noise is decent and they still handle well enough for a DD tire.

The real test will come in heavy snow/rain and we will see if they work out. I don't expect snow tire performance, but just the ability to not die :)