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Paul, you are lucky I guess......my opinion with the cheaper not really off brand, but lower budgeted tires gave my X-5 a load roar. I went with the kumhos as well, it was like a 4 x 4 off road tire it roared so much. I wound up buying another set of stock wheels and had some michelins mounted on them......no road noise now period. I got right at 57,000 miles on the original michelins, you'll go thru two sets of kumhos and coopers in that mileage range. I will say the kumhos did seem to hook better than the michelins in turns and all, but the wife hated the road noise. So....it comes to a couple of different justifications for you.

1. Buy the Michelin replacement now and spend the money all at one time, taking care of them will get you 55-60K miles with every day driving styles, no road noise, no roar, and a good all around tire.

2. Buy kumhos, cooper, other brands and pay a little more than half the cost of the michelins, but get half the tread wear also....these tires aren't bad and will work, you'll just wind up spending the same money in the long run.

Yokohama Geolander HS on the 17" rims. Great all rounder and will replace them with another set. After 4 years of driving in everything from 12" of snow to downpours I would not put anything else on the rims.

Avons on tire rack 100/each. nice ride. nice tread. quiet.

way cheaper than over priced mich's

Kumho KL17 ???
anyone?

Pcotangco one year later... what is your impression about the kumho?

Regards,

Flavio

Been runnin' cooper cs4's for approx 10 thou and really like them. Had been through two sets of michelin energy's

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Originally Posted by bcb1 (Post 564681)

I've been looking at replacing my tires on my X5 sometime later this year. Both Cooper and Kumho have very attractive prices, and I was wondering if any of you guys have tried them on your X5?

Specifically, the Cooper Discoverer HT Plus at $111.00 per tire, and the Kumho Road Venture at $128 per tire looks pretty good.

I guess my choice of "premium" tire would be the Bridgestone Dueler Alenza, but the price jumps to $185 per tire. Not unreasonable...yet I hate to spend the extra bucks if the Cooper or Kumho are just as good.

Did you mention anywhere what size wheels you have?

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Originally Posted by mrbmwx5 (Post 564697)

i am riding on Kumho SOLUS KR21 all season tire 265 60 17 for the winter and
they very smooth and handle just as good as all snow tires out there.

:iagree:

snow traction is amazing I think they ride really nice I paid $420 for brand new tires and installation

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Originally Posted by NC_X5_Guy (Post 580531)

I disagree, the kumho solus I am running have NO road noise and ride the same as the michelin. As far as treadwear you have to take your roads into consideration I bought a spare michelin from a used tire dealer while I was in WV for bussiness. The tire had 35k on it and it was almost to the wear bar. The tire dealer said that whatever a tire is rated for get half of that due to road conditions

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Originally Posted by ecproductions143 (Post 716995)

:iagree:

snow traction is amazing I think they ride really nice I paid $420 for brand new tires and installation

tirerack,com reviews for the solus are above average see for yourself