Recommendations - New Tires in 2015

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Hello All,

Looking for a good budget (preferably ~$100 or less) all-season tire recommendation for 2011 Toyota Camry SE (4cyl). I live in NC, so we have hot/humid summers and "ehhh" winters that have a habit of dealing out 1 or 2 surprise heavy snow falls or ice storms. I'm a "spirited" driver; nothing serious though--I got kids to keep safe. I rotate my tires religiously every 5k

Looking for a tire to last 40-50K miles, solid wet/dry traction that rides well, and isn't super noisy. I've been reading up on Falken Ziex 950 A/S and the Cooper CS5 Ultra Touring--anyone have experience with either? Tirerack doesn't rate Cooper/Falken and the Falken 912's I had on my last car did very well.

Size: 215/55/R17 V-rated (OEM), but will take H-rated.
 
i don't know much about tires in that class, but i can tell you for a fact that the Pirelli P7 Cinturato all seasons are superb. i had them for a few months on a temporary vehicle whilst a car was being delivered and i could not believe how good they were for regular all seasons. and i have bad experiences with Pirelli, haha, but these were outstanding.
 
If your winter months aren't very "wintery" then all seasons will be fine. If you have some strong winters, all seasons are pointless are your best bet is to have separate summer and winter tires. Now since this is a family car and not a track car, most tires will be fine. Don't over think it too much, the tires you listed are pretty decent, continental extreme contacts are great too if you want to spend more money. Goodluc!
 
builthatch said:
i don't know much about tires in that class, but i can tell you for a fact that the Pirelli P7 Cinturato all seasons are superb.
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I hear those are the best thing since sliced bread; if I can find them on sale I will snatch them up!

asianisafish said:
Don't over think it too much, the tires you listed are pretty decent, continental extreme contacts are great too if you want to spend more money. Goodluc!
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I hear good things about those as well. Any experience/hearsay about the True Contacts or Pure Contacts?
 
I'm not sure how they will price out for your Camry, but I'm running a set of Continental PureContact on the car my daughter drives and they are amazing.

Very quiet, fantastic in rain, and very good in the light snowy/slushy conditions we get in this area. For a V rated grand touring tire, they are very responsive too.
 
Ha ha, you guys are killing me, I was just pondering P7's, PureContacts, and Michelin Premier...it was a tough choice but I weighed everything at tire rack and decided on the Premier...now you guys go and praise the other two...and by the way--what's the best wax?

PS No review yet I haven't had them put on.
 
One word...

Boggers!

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They sound cool as you drive down the road. I think the smallest you can get them are either 31" or 33" so you might have to lift you car.


:D
 
Desertnate said:
I'm not sure how they will price out for your Camry, but I'm running a set of Continental PureContact on the car my daughter drives and they are amazing.

Very quiet, fantastic in rain, and very good in the light snowy/slushy conditions we get in this area. For a V rated grand touring tire, they are very responsive too.
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Same here on my daughters car (03 Accord V6). They are a little noisy (so we differ a little there), but its a fair trade-off for the traction in all weather and a long tread life (I believe they are 800 tread life?). I am looking at TrueContact's for my CRV this fall.

I use the tirerack comparison charts every time I buy tires and try to get the top choice if they are decently priced. So far all choices with this method have been good.
 
wdmaccord said:
Same here on my daughters car (03 Accord V6). They are a little noisy (so we differ a little there), but its a fair trade-off for the traction in all weather and a long tread life (I believe they are 800 tread life?).
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Noise is relative. The set we're running are on a 2010 Mazda3 hatchback. Mazda apparently decided sound deadening material was not important when they designed the car, so it's loud no matter what. The Conti's are the third set of tires I've mounted on the car and it was noticeably quieter...probably the most lowest noise levels ever in the car which we bought new.

I can say the PureContacts are substantially better than the Kuhmo 4X's previously installed in all aspects. Those tires were extremely noisy after only 10K miles and wore out very quickly.
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
One word...

Boggers!

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They sound cool as you drive down the road. I think the smallest you can get them are either 31" or 33" so you might have to lift you car.


:D
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Ahhh...boggers. I've heard they ride like taking a shopping cart down stairs and are able to hit 100+ dB on the road.

On a relevant note, we had contact dws on my wife's TL that I enjoyed. They seemed to handle rain and light snow very well. I can't comment on the tread life much as we traded it with about 20k on them. They were still looking good though.
 
Tires are very important....Continental DWS06 and call it a day! These are the replacements for the awesome DWS.

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A great resource and a great place to purchase tires is Tirerack.com. I have been buying tires from Tirerack for over 20 years, before they even had a website.

With that said, as with many things in life, you get what you pay for when it comes to tires. Michelin and Goodyear, while often more expensive, have several excellent choices in that category. Go online and read the reviews and comparison tests.
 
Jaretr1 said:
A great resource and a great place to purchase tires is Tirerack.com. I have been buying tires from Tirerack for over 20 years, before they even had a website.
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Ha, remember back then when they were "mail-order" tire companies and they had the multi-page price list ads in R&T and C/D...hey, remember when we used to read magazines?
 
Klasse Act said:
Tires are very important....Continental DWS06 and call it a day! These are the replacements for the awesome DWS.

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That's what's going on my GTI as soon as the OEM's wear out (not soon enough).

Conti has some great offerings these days at multiple performance levels. The DW's, DWS/DWS06, PureContact, and even the CrossContact LX20's for SUV's all have great reviews.
 
Desertnate said:
That's what's going on my GTI as soon as the OEM's wear out (not soon enough).

Conti has some great offerings these days at multiple performance levels. The DW's, DWS/DWS06, PureContact, and even the CrossContact LX20's for SUV's all have great reviews.
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Like I said before, you guys are killing me! I have never had a set of Conti's and really wanted to try them...

While we're at it...who else is amused by Pirelli using the P7 name again, this time on a "compromise" all-season tire?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Ha, remember back then when they were "mail-order" tire companies and they had the multi-page price list ads in R&T and C/D...hey, remember when we used to read magazines?
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Hmmmm. I still do. What does that make me!? :) I've been reading R&T in old-school paper format for 30 years!

I never bought tires off Tire Rack when they were mail order, but have ordered from them off/on since at least 2000. Remember when they used to put large chunks of their prices/sizes for tire in the multi-page adds? I would pour over them every month...for no particular reason.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Like I said before, you guys are killing me! I have never had a set of Conti's and really wanted to try them...

While we're at it...who else is amused by Pirelli using the P7 name again, this time on a "compromise" all-season tire?
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I found that strange too. However it looks like the same tread pattern as the performance tire, just a different rubber compound and more sipes.
 
Desertnate said:
I found that strange too. However it looks like the same tread pattern as the performance tire, just a different rubber compound and more sipes.
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LOL, maybe KlasseAct will back me up here--the P7 was THE tire in the way-back machine, back when we were still using lettered tires here (before P-metric), P7's were what came on Porche Turbos, Countach's, that kind of thing--they were the first high speed, low profile tires back in the day when here in the US a "performance" tire was a station wagon tire with RWL's instead of a whitewall (think of the Bandit's Trans Am with Goodyear Custom Polysteel Radials).

At least that's how I remember it, I could be wrong.
 
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