11-20-2010, 01:51 AM
mrlynn wrote:
Good comments, all.
Cooper makes off-brand tires, but their own Cooper brand seems to be well-regarded, judging from forum posts, particularly the CS4s, which when they came out were the subject of a substantial Motor Trend review:
http://www.motortrend.com/features/112_0...index.html
I've read some pretty bad reviews of them from car geeks.
Reading reviews at places like TireRack can be frustrating, as there are as many opinions as there are users.
Stick with the official reviews.
OWC Jamie wrote:
A coworker got the predecessor of these for her subie at work
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?...e=Yokohama&tireModel=AVID+ENVigor+(H%26V)&partnum=255HR7ENV&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes&autoMake=Subaru&autoYear=2007&autoModel=Outback%20Wagon%202.5%20XT%20Limited&autoModClar=
And they have been excellent to say the least. Cheap enough too at $123 a tire from TireRack.
I expect their snow traction rating to go down as their survey sample set increases. They have a couple other tires with nearly identical tread patterns and their snow ratings are much lower.
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
IIRC, the snow tires with tight grooves are best for only hard dry snow or ice. They did well tested on a car driving on an ice rink.
Siping is for ice. More open tread patterns are for snow. Good snow tires have both.
FWIW, I've had blizzaks, dunlop winter sport 3d's, dunlop graspics and Michelin aplin arctics for snow tires. Other than the graspics, the others I all had on subies.