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Good budget All Season Performance Tires for GS?

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Old 12-19-13, 02:05 PM
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Default Good budget All Season Performance Tires for GS?

Looking for a recommendation for a budget all season performance tire (Under $150 each if thats possible). I did find a post with several listed but its 7 years old so looking for updated models. Im looking to run these tire sizes:


245/35/19 Front

285/30/19 Rear
Old 12-19-13, 02:42 PM
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I'd check out tirerack.com they'll give you all the best and most popular tires specifically for GS and usually pretty cheap
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Nitto 555's brother. Take a good look at them
Old 12-19-13, 04:23 PM
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Not sure if this qualifies as "budget" but I have a set of Michelin Primacy MX4's that have been great. My area gets snow in the winter and they do very well. Also solid dry weather handling and smooth ride.
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Originally Posted by Lukas99GS
I'd check out tirerack.com they'll give you all the best and most popular tires specifically for GS and usually pretty cheap
Yep, I was shocked at the low prices for quality name brand tires...
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I took 20 minutes moving the GS out of the driveway so I can take my other car out, do all season tires work for you guys in the snow? Its not working out for me at all. My car is on potenza all seasons and switching over to hankook winters soon
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Originally Posted by Neosakai
I took 20 minutes moving the GS out of the driveway so I can take my other car out, do all season tires work for you guys in the snow? Its not working out for me at all. My car is on potenza all seasons and switching over to hankook winters soon
I'm on high performance Goodyear eagle gt ones all weather, my second year in a row with em, I do fine but I'm very careful, if I have to back out my driveway on an upward slope then try to go with a lil snow, forget about it, SOMETIMES snow mode gets me up the hill with no spinout, I usually have to back down the alley..
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since you're not running OEM sized tires, you should just post in the Tire forum
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Originally Posted by Neosakai
I took 20 minutes moving the GS out of the driveway so I can take my other car out, do all season tires work for you guys in the snow? Its not working out for me at all. My car is on potenza all seasons and switching over to hankook winters soon
They work fine for me. Yeah, they slip every so often given the GS is RWD. But use snow mode and drive carefully you should be able to get around well enough in average snowfalls. If you have to drive in a blizzard, then winter tires are probably a must.
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damn snow problems.

we dont have that problem here in CA
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Originally Posted by 1sWt2GS
damn snow problems.

we dont have that problem here in CA
No snow in Cali. But still plenty of other problems
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Lucky bastards lol, in mn it's a near necessity to have snow tires, made it by last year without them, but if you love where there's a lot of snow, they do make a HUGE difference, I put on blizzaks this year and it's quite a difference
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