TIRE RACK TIRE COMPARISON DRIVERS
TIRE RACK TIRE COMPARISON DRIVER

If our experience and a car manufacturer's dedicated engineering team doesn't give you confidence in buying a set of summer tires, then we don't know what will. Many of them are factory-fitted on some of the most respectable performance vehicles on sale today. In this article, we've focused on the higher-spec summer tires meant for sports cars and sedans (we'll get to summer-rated SUV and truck tires another time). These tires are sold in several categories, from the casual 'touring' grade on an all-wheel-drive sedan to barely street-legal treads on supercars. For maximum traction, lateral grip, and the shortest braking distances in warm weather, you'll want a summer-rated tire. They're based on subjective road-testing experience by our editors who have driven late-model sports cars and sedans wearing some very good rubber. The following tire recommendations are not based on C/D track-test results. They're the rare set of car journalists who, with engineer backgrounds and decades of track experience, can legitimately run instrumented performance tests on new tires.

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I mean, they're not a performance tire but, they're nice performing without calling attention to themselves.The testing division at Car and Driver knows everything there is to know about choosing the right tires. Which is just about everything, without(really) doing anything poorly. My SIL, per my recommendation, put the RT43 on her 2014 GMC Terrain 2.4L(4cyl) AWD(235-60-17 'H' speed rating) and love's them as well.Īs a consumer, we like the RT43s for their overall-ness/everyday-ness in the good things these tires do well. We love the RT43s on both cars and recommend them to many here at Bob's and on the outside to friends & family. It rides just fine and this Civic LX is a nice riding/quiet compact sedan. I was a bit concerned with the RT43 in 'H' speed rating on the Civic as I thought it may have made the car's ride too firm/harsh compared to the OE but, that was not the case. Both cars came(OE) with soft riding tires, again, in their respective speed ratings. It offers satisfying performance in both dry and wet conditions, with confident braking and effective traction in light snow.

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These mentioned speed ratings^^^ is what their respective vehicles stated on their door jamb so this is what I bought. The Sincera SN250 A/S is Falken's Standard Touring All-Season tire developed for drivers of family sedans, crossovers and minivans. I look for tires that fit my criteria down to a 'T'(no pun) or as close to checking off the most boxes in my criteria. I use TR & CR tire ratings as a guideline, not as gospel, when buying tires. If you want I can go into more detail about how tire manufacturers deal with speed tests and load tests. Is there a difference between a T rated and an H rated tire as far as overall performance is concerned? If they have the same UTQG treadwear and traction rating, The tire will perform the same except for it durability (meaning résistance to structural failure) Please note the UTQG temperature rating is a form of the speed rating. The only way you could find out is by testing the tire! You will get a better result on the load tests. Barry's Tire Tech: Load Tables What you should get from the link is that while there are many tire standardizing organizations, for practical purposes, the load index is the same for a given tire size - and it is the tire manufacturers responsibility to build a tire that meets or exceeds those standards.īut Speed Rating does indeed impact load carrying capability in that the casing is less prone to failure - both for speed and load - BUT - because the load index is set by the tire standardizing organizations, that is NOT apparent. I think I need to step in here to clear up some misconceptions.įirst, the load carrying capacity (Load Index) is set by the tire standardizing organizations.

I am not exactly looking for 'just get RT43s and be done with it' kind of answer.) Why such a difference? Any idea? Or am I misunderstanding? BFGoodrich Advantage T/A, CR claims its best at hydroplaning resistance (its the only one in the whole list) whereas TireRack's spider chart says otherwise. When you compare the TireRack tested ratings and CR ratings, they don't match. I believe TireRack ratings are user-submitted but they also have some testing data with RT43s, Here. RT43 sits at the top on CR testing but sits down the list on TireRack's ratings. There is another rating chart for Performance all-seasons but they are all V-rated. Consumer Report tested T-rated tires, so my first question is, can one extrapolate T-rated tire ratings to H-rated tires? Consumer Report's latest tire chart is Here. Was randomly checking TireRack and came across their Rating chart. I am just waiting if any deal shows up on these tires. I am pretty much settled on RT43 H-rated 225/60R Forester.

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