PecosBill

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My current tires have reached the end of their journey and now I need some new ones. Im torn between the Michelin Pilot Exalto A/S and the Bridgestone Potenza RE960 A/S Pole Position.
Anyone have experience with either of these? Pros/Cons?
Any help is appreciated

Stokdgs

Just put a set of 18" staggered size Bridgestone Potenze RE960 Pole Positions A/S on a '03 BMW 540iT with M5 wheels, and they are awesome! Had Pilot Sport II's on there before, and they were loud and tramlined badly on these crappy concrete grooved freeways. The RE960's are almost dead quiet, stick really well, and dont tramline. This vehicle has alot of M5 parts on it from the factory including the quad tip exhaust, so its really fast, and these tires work great in this configuration. I would never go back to Michelin. If I had been able to find both sizes for my IS350, I would have gotten these instead of the Pilot Sport A/S, which are ok, but really noisy on concrete freeways.
Believe Tire Rack rated the Bridgestone RE960's the best A/S tire out there today.. DanF

mitsuguy

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Both are great... I love Bridgestone tho...

Brandon@TR

Bridgestone RE960

steviej

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I had 215/60-16 Michelin Pilot Exalto A/S on my 02 ES and loved them. There were awesome in rain, great on dry and pretty decent in light snow. Very quiet in all conditions on all pavement types.

Right now I have got 18" Michelin Pilot Sport A/S tires on my 06 GS300 AWD and really like them. Great on dry and super in rain, however they won't see snow. So far they have been very quiet but they only got about 4k miles on them.

steviej