All season performance tire

[svoshell]

I live in the Pacific NW. I have a 2004 Nissan Sentra Spec-V with Brembo brakes. I am looking to purchase some all season performance tires. My hope is to find a tire that I can use all year long. There is occasional snowfall in the area. I have been looking at the Continental ContiExtremeContact and Yokohama AVID W4S. My hope is to find something that handles reasonably well and isn't too noisy. Most of my driving is in town with some highway.

Any suggestions or comments that may help?

[VMPhil]

not a fan of Continentals. I have a set of Yokohama AS430s that are nice. the Avids are good too.

[gotak]

The Procontacts does resonably well as the stock tires. I run snow tires in winter so no ideas about driving in the snow. I don't have the extremecontacts but the guys with the 07 Spec Vs will have them stock. Ask them what they think.

Btw it's not just snow that causes tire performance degradation in winter. The cold also makes regular all seasons hard and less grippy even when dry.

[nametakennow]

The Avid is a pretty good tire. If you have the dough, the Michelin Pilot Sport A/S gets very good reviews as well.

[nissantech06]

not a fan of Continentals. I have a set of Yokohama AS430s that are nice. the Avids are good too.

I agree. The base Contis, the TouringContacts, feather really easily. The SportContacts wear too fast (I used to replace a TON of these on BMWs with under 30,000 miles) the ProContacts are yet to be determined because Nissan JUST started putting them on cars for the '07 MY. I personally love Yokohama Avid H4S, I had them on my Lancer, and they were GREAT in the snow, better than my Dunlop SP Sport 5000 DSSTs (short story, worked for BMW/Mini doing ONLY tires and rims, have a ton of experience with tires, got the Dunlops in a 195/55R16 Run-flat free as take-offs, got a free set of 16" Mini Cooper S web spokes, wanted a wider tire, went with the Yokohamas as a 205/40R16, whew).

[Buzzman]

Dragging this thread out of the archives cause I need new tires for my 03 SE-R.I run winter tires on steel rims, so I'm really only looking for summer/all season tires. I still have the stock 16" rims. Stock size is 195/55R16. There is not that much choice in that size. There are tons of 205/55R16's out there. Can I go one size over or will I have clearance problems? Are there any other sizes I can go to as well? Thanks in advance.

[nametakennow]

Ha, a 205/55 will fit with plenty of room to spare. It's a good choice in this case.

Your speedo will be a little off.

[livinloud98]

<3 my kumho ecstas, handling is amazing