My Review of the Michelin Latitude Tour HP Tires

[DCC]

Anybody cross shop these with the continentals DWS?

[HuskerX5]

Purchased a new set of staggered 19" Latitude Tour HP's and have two summers on them, including a 2500 mile 7 day trip from Lincoln, Nebraska, thru New Mexico up to the four corners, Durango, Colorado then thru Estes Park, CO and back across Nebraska. This trip included a wide variety of road surfaces from smooth interstate to unevenly paved back roads to 100+ miles of gravel and deep sandy wash outs. Weather encountered was rainy for the first 350miles to hot desert in NM, to near freezing crossing mountain passes in Colorado on Trail Ridge Road. The tires performed perfectly in every situation, remained quiet, surefooted and delivered good mileage with little wear noticed. Speeds on the open roads of the desert in NM and up to Four Corners was often at 90-100mph and never felt anything other than confident. The compound is harder than the Diamaris 4x4's and tread pattern more siped so the inner tread wear "cupping" issue common with the Diamaris that is caused by the negative camber is greatly reduced. I do, however, still swap the tires side to side, reversing the direction, every 7500 miles which evens out the wear and extends the life.

I have driven these in the snow and ice when I got caught in a surprise early snowstorm. I would say for me, they were "acceptable". I am spoiled, and perhaps biased, because I run Nokian Hakkapillitta R2 SUV Studless snow tires on 18" wheels for the winter season. Once you have a set of quality snow tires, there really is no comparison, and even the best all season tire falls short by comparison. That said, these Lattitude tires are by far the BEST tire for the X5 I've experienced. I was able to find a matching set of staggered 19in sizes searching online. These are NOT an inexpensive tire, but I feel they are worth the investment and a better all around option than the Diamaris 4x4's.
Happy New Year and safe travels to you all !!!

[TiAgX5]

Michelin discontinued the 285 45 19 size. No more rears for sport pkg 4.4s.

[StephenVA]

Wanted to provide an update to this posting as we are facing winter once again. I install the Michelin Latitude Tour HP on the 4.8is last December. Over the last 5,000 miles they have been GREAT.
Dry driving (braking, cornering, etc) handling is on par with the OE summer only tires until you hit 90% race mode. Had the chance to run a 2,700 mile summer vacation run up to New England as a summer test. Hwy speeds up to 90+ totally predicable handling with no noise. High speed braking was again predicable without drama.

Snow slush heavy rain driving: Performed great as an all season tire no challenges and on heavy acceleration puts out 6 foot rooster tails of snow from the rears. Handled 3" to 6" without any challenges using a S L O W take off process.
Noise level: LOW
Not effected by temp swings hot or cold. The OE summer tires turn into rocks when temps hit 40F.

In a non snow belt area I would recommend them highly, as they perform as designed and marketed. In the frozen wasteland up north, I would only recommend a dedicated snow tire for winter use, as your daily driving is snow covered streets. Here in the Wash DC area we have wet snow followed by salt melting slush and patches of morning ICE!

Note: Not all tire sizes are available so check first on the official Michelin tire site. Then check with all the normal suppliers like Tire Rack. I picked up mine from Tire Rack and found them on my front door two days later.

Option 2: Continental Extreme Contact DWS (Ultra High Performance All-Season) Lower price per tire.

[BMWOO7]

Awesome review, didn't realize how old this was at first...

In regards to the Michelin Latitude Tour HP Tires, we have had them on both our 2011 X5 and now on our 2013 X5. Had about 25K miles on the 2011 and at about 12.5K miles on the 2013 now.

Being my wife's car and our daily driver, I was originally going to go with dedicated snow tires, and while I'll won't say they may provide some value (I've never owned a set, ever), the Michelin tires have been absolutely flawless in performance.

We live just North of Chicago, along the lake and have had some serious snow falls and Black ice conditions since we purchased our 2011 when they first came out in July of 2010.

These tires have performed exactly as the original post here. Traction on snow and ice has been outstanding for both braking, lane changes, acceleration etc... You have to push them to get them to actually lose traction.

These are outstanding tires (not cheep) but when you consider they are the only thing between you and the road and the quality, they are well worth the cost.

Tread wear has also been outstanding, When we traded in our 2011 with 25K miles on it, the tires were still at 7/32nd's.

These tires coupled with BMW's X-Drive are a complete win-win set up.