Reply Seaagie
Hi,
You need to consider the weather conditions in the location where you live before replacing your tires. If where you live snows, you should stay clear from high performance tires, or alternatively you have a set of rims with winter tires just for those cold and snowing months. All season tires have a lot of give-and-take to compensate for changing weather conditions, hence lack top-end, grip- and lateral stability performance. High performance tires are very attractive and excellent in the summer and dry weather, however do not expect to get any decent mileage out of them. I don't pay too much regard to many of the customers' reviews, as a lot of folks complained low mileage and road noise after installing ultra performance tires. Anyone with a bit of car-knowledge would immediately ask, what do you expect? The design of a high performance tire's priority is grip-performance and, concerning and lateral-stability, the rest are just distant second or third. Micheline, Bridegestone and Pirelli have well-designed products, anyone of them is a good choice. Where I live, Pirelli is a bit cheaper so I went with P-Zero 255/40/20 - 101W. Hell, I just had a new set of P-Zero 255/40/20 installed after 10k miles (16k km) on the old ones, as I have plans all along to change new tires every 12 months anyway so to run my car in the best grip-performance period, once grip-performance starts to degrade, it's time to change new tires.
The question is what is it that you want your tire to do for you? Grip-performance? Longevity? Soft/Quiet ride? An important question that you need to know your answer, as your tires are the only part of your car that contacts the ground!
