Good morning,

I ran down my old tires to the ground - right front one is totally bold.
Need your advice to choose the correct set under following conditions:
1. Nissan Maxima SE 01.
2. Daily commute (highway 90% ) 140 miles.
3. NJ - occasional snow in the winter; rest of the year - usually dry and wet conditions
4. The current are 215/55R/1693H

Would like to have one set of tires, not very noisy, with good handling and would gladly NOT to pay > $100 a piece.

thank you for your advice.

 

Edgeracing.com - Toyo Proxes 4 / $83 each

http://edgeracing.com/tires/2155516/

 

Stay away from Falken's ZIEX 512s they are horrible with highways.

 

thank you for suggestions.

I've got some positive feedback about BFGoodrich Traction T/A on another forum.

After looking around on the tirerec, i narrowed my choice down from 33 to 5 tires :
Continental ContiExtremeContact ( ultra high performance all-season) - seemed to be too soft for my purposes;
Bridgestone Potenza G 009 - ( high perf. all -season) seemed to have good reviews and ratings are fine. So far it's my choice number one;
Yokohama AVID V4S ( high perf. all -season) - seemed to have problmes with the snow ( even light);
Kumho Solus KH16 ( grand touring all -season) - same as Yokohama in the snow;
Goodyear Assurance ComforTred - more than i want to spend ( over $100 ), but seems to be a nice tire.

Based on this "research" ( it's a joke, not a research ofcourse ). I'm down to :
Bridgestone Potenza G 009. What intrigues me, is that several people mantioned BFGoodrich as a good tire. But i can't see why (based on parameters from tirerec).

any other good sides with ratings, reviews and specs i can use ?

To SEmy2K2go :
why do you recommend Toyo?

thank you.

 

There are numerous members on this forum that will confirm the Proxes 4's quality. I personally have them on my car currently and have a couple friends with them as well. The majority rave about the Proxes 4's.

Here's a decent amount of info with quite a few reviews.

http://www.1010tires.com/tirereviews...e_reviews.html

 

Stay away from Falken FK451 as well.

 

Michelin Pilot Sport A/S tires worked out very well for me on my stock wheels in the winter.

 

thank you all for your suggestions, recommendations and opinions.
I decided to go with Bridgestone Potenza G 009. ( 215/55/16 ). Ordered from tirerac and will install ( grand total ) for $17 per tire.
Will update about my riding expirience in, say, 1000 miles ( in a week ) ).
Thank you.

 

I will soon be in the same boat needing tires to replace my OEM Potenza RE92's. Went shopping for the first time yesterday and was not impressed with the offerings locally - nothing under $150 per tire. I read rave reviews on tirerack.com about the AVON 550 A/S but i see little on here. Am i missing something??? THX.

 

as promised :
after putting near 2K miles on the tires :
well, they work. they hold the ground better than the bold ones i had... obviously. But i yet have to see them under wet conditions and in the snow ( which won't happened for next 11 months ).
The def. improvement - it's sooooo much easier to hear the radio

BTW: i did have Toyo Proxes on my rear wheels. And they were doing Ok, relatively speaking.

P.S. I'm leaving the thread. Please pm me if needed.
Again - thank you all for participating!