Yup. Don't bother reading reviews from other types of vehicles. Tire Rack allows you to filter reviews based on make & model.axel10 wrote:Also, anyone out there who is learned on these matters, what would account for such extreme experiences on what should be the exact same tire? Would factors like chassis (installed on Rogue vs Impala), quality of installation work by tire shop, or even factory that built the tire, impact on what I am finding in the reviews?
Shouldn't matter. As posted above, the shop should be able to align within spec (possibly better in some cases). If not, use another shop that can.tikblang wrote:Alignment can be corrected but wont be as accurate when it was brand new so I need to take that into consideration when selecting tires.
bill875 wrote:Has anyone switched form the stock Dunlop ST20's to the Yokohama Avid TRZ's? I'm curious to what your observations are in the difference in ride/performance. I have 56,000 miles on my Dunlop's and could easily make it to 65,000, but winter is on it's way and I would rather be safe than sorry. ...
That's unfortunate. I have owned several sets of Yokohama tires including the TRZ and never had any issues. I also know of friends that have have the TRZ on company vehicles... GM minivans mainly and never had issues.bill875 wrote:I just see too many Avid TRZ complaints about the sidewalls and I used to work with a guy who had the TRZ's on his Nissan Quest. After about a year, he was having sidewall softness issues and finally had one blow out on him.
Yes, I was wrong, the H727's are only a $40 rebate I have edited my post to indicate that. Oh well, getting rid of that road noise made these tires worth every penny.daytrippr wrote:We only had a $40 rebate!
I find the topic of "siping" coming up more regularly and it's pretty interesting, some people are really sold on this. A big local tire shop in my town really promotes it...for those who don't know, siping is when they do a series of cuts into the tire tread perpendicular to the direction of travel (i.e. from sidewall to sidewall direction). The claim is that these cuts allow the tread to flex increasing surface area when contacting the road and therefore you get better winter traction AND you supposedly increase the life of the tires because in warm or hot temperatures the cuts allow the tire to run cooler. Apparently this was quite common back in the 50's, but tire technology has changed so much since then I can't see how it would still be relevant. Also a tire guy I talked to said that a lot of trucking company's are experimenting with it to increase the life of tires.philipa_240sx wrote:OMG, that's nuts!daytrippr wrote:they tried to sell me siping, even though these tires are siped already....glad I did my homework.
Please send these people over who purchased siping for their tires.... I have all kinds of stuff I could sell them!