It's Tire Time and I need your opinion

[jlam86]

What about the toyo stII? Reviews are good but anyone with experience with them personally here?

[rh71]

Originally Posted by jlam86

What about the toyo stII? Reviews are good but anyone with experience with them personally here?

plenty have the 20" STII... they are extremely durable and noise level is low.

[Lubehead]

I replaced the RFT Michelin Lattitudes with the non RFT version. As far as I'm concerned, there is no equal with regard to tread life.

[soldmystang]

i'm on my second set of 19" Proxes STIIs. got 50K out of the first set.

great dry traction, great wet traction especially standing water. can't speak for snow.

[rcasey]

Originally Posted by Lubehead

I replaced the RFT Michelin Lattitudes with the non RFT version. As far as I'm concerned, there is no equal with regard to tread life.

Are you saying, the RFT gave better tread life?

Ciao,
Dick

[1HOT BMR]

Pirelli*Scorpion Verde All Season

IMO this is the best all season tire for the X5 right now. Smooth riding, sharp steering response, excellent traction in all conditions, quiet, long lasting with a wear rating of 600. I've got 7K miles on them and they look like I installed them yesterday. It will feel like a completely different and much nicer car when you replace your RFTs with these

[ard]

Originally Posted by Lubehead

I replaced the RFT Michelin Lattitudes with the non RFT version. As far as I'm concerned, there is no equal with regard to tread life.

Interested to hear about the differences...of course it is hard to recall what the new tires were like, the most acute reference is the old worn out tire to the new ones...but given the complaining about RFTs, there are vurtually NO comparisons of the same tire, same everything- comparing just RFT to Std.

[Lubehead]

Can't speak for tread life on the present non RFT's versus the RFT's but the everyday living with the non RFT's is vastly superior. I'm assuming that I will most likely do as well as the Lattitude RFTs that were on my '08. They got to around 40k if memory serves so evidently the Proxes outperform that, but it doesn't matter to me, I wouldn't buy them.

I've got 19's on my '10 35d and the slamming harshness experienced with the RFT's is gone.Yes, there is a bit of loss of turn in response and a bit more body roll, but these characteristics are not that important to me for this vehicle which is my rolling office, now at 62k miles.