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Old October 20th 04, 09:59 PM
ChefCharming
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Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all weather,
year around. Thanks for your help!
Joe


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Old October 20th 04, 10:48 PM
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"ChefCharming" wrote
> Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
> winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all
> weather, year around. Thanks for your help!


Conti Extreme Contact
Dunlop SP5000
Falken 512
Nokian WR

That last one is the most snow-capable all-season tire I know, but it
gets a little soft during hot summer days, so you just have to decide
what's more important to you. For a good balance of everything, I think
I'd go with CEC.

Cheers,

Pete


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Old October 21st 04, 12:08 AM
ChefCharming
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Thanks Pete, have been looking at the reviews and the CECs do seem to be the
best all round. I appreciate the help!

Joe

"Pete" > wrote in message
...
>
> "ChefCharming" wrote
>> Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
>> winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all weather,
>> year around. Thanks for your help!

>
> Conti Extreme Contact
> Dunlop SP5000
> Falken 512
> Nokian WR
>
> That last one is the most snow-capable all-season tire I know, but it gets
> a little soft during hot summer days, so you just have to decide what's
> more important to you. For a good balance of everything, I think I'd go
> with CEC.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
>



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Old October 21st 04, 03:55 PM
Steve Sears
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Joe,
IMHO, you should get a set of steel rims and put dedicated snow tires on
them - that will save the condition of your aluminum rims, and will give you
way better traction in the messy stuff than all season tires would.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ - Kumho Ecsta 712 summer, Blizzak WS50 winter
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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"ChefCharming" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks Pete, have been looking at the reviews and the CECs do seem to be

the
> best all round. I appreciate the help!
>
> Joe
>
> "Pete" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "ChefCharming" wrote
> >> Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
> >> winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all

weather,
> >> year around. Thanks for your help!

> >
> > Conti Extreme Contact
> > Dunlop SP5000
> > Falken 512
> > Nokian WR
> >
> > That last one is the most snow-capable all-season tire I know, but it

gets
> > a little soft during hot summer days, so you just have to decide what's
> > more important to you. For a good balance of everything, I think I'd go
> > with CEC.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >

>
>



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Old October 21st 04, 06:27 PM
GT
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"ChefCharming" > a écrit dans le message de
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> Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
> winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all weather,
> year around. Thanks for your help!
> Joe


Here in Switzerland we have a lot of snow. I'm using Goodyear Vector EV-2 in
the size 195/65-HR 15 and they are good the whole year round, although a bit
noisy compared to sommer tires.
Hope this helps.

--
Best regards.
Giovanni Tarantino
Bevaix (NE)
Switzerland
1997 Audi A4 2.8 Q 230,000 km (144,000 miles)
1997 BMW 535i 228,000 km (142,000 miles)


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Old October 21st 04, 10:58 PM
KLS
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Good advice from Steve, or you could do what I did and use your
current alloys for snows (mine were kinda beat up from having to park
on the street for a year) and buy nice new alloys for summer and keep
your car looking like a REAL AUDI! I found good prices for alloy
wheels at Shokan All Audi (which I've mentioned in this space before),
and got 3 used ones in really nice shape, avoiding that E-Bay bidding
crap.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:55:30 -0400, "Steve Sears"
> wrote:

>Joe,
>IMHO, you should get a set of steel rims and put dedicated snow tires on
>them - that will save the condition of your aluminum rims, and will give you
>way better traction in the messy stuff than all season tires would.
>Cheers!
>Steve Sears
>1987 Audi 5kTQ - Kumho Ecsta 712 summer, Blizzak WS50 winter
>1980 Audi 5k
>1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
>(SPAM Blocker NOTE: Remove SHOES to reply)
>
>"ChefCharming" > wrote in message
...
>> Thanks Pete, have been looking at the reviews and the CECs do seem to be

>the
>> best all round. I appreciate the help!
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> "Pete" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> > "ChefCharming" wrote
>> >> Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
>> >> winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all

>weather,
>> >> year around. Thanks for your help!
>> >
>> > Conti Extreme Contact
>> > Dunlop SP5000
>> > Falken 512
>> > Nokian WR
>> >
>> > That last one is the most snow-capable all-season tire I know, but it

>gets
>> > a little soft during hot summer days, so you just have to decide what's
>> > more important to you. For a good balance of everything, I think I'd go
>> > with CEC.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Pete
>> >
>> >

>>
>>

>


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Old October 25th 04, 07:50 PM
Randy S
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I've had Michelin Pilot Sport A/S on my car for the last 30,000 miles, and I'm
about to either re-buy those, or try the Pirelli P Zero Nero M+S (about $80
less per tire). Anyone have experiences with either?

Randy



the Pirelli P Zero Nero M+S

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....eModel=PZero+N
ero+M%26S

Michelin Pilot Sport A/S

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....reModel=Pilot+
Sport+A%2FS


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Old October 26th 04, 07:56 AM
Peter Smith
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"Randy S" > wrote

<< I've had Michelin Pilot Sport A/S on my car...Anyone have experiences
with either? >>

Aside from a bit more road noise, I've found the Pilot Sport A/S nice for
the Allroad. Chicago winters have not been a problem.


Peter Smith


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Old October 28th 04, 10:27 AM
+ Rob +
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"Pete" > wrote in message
...
>
> "ChefCharming" wrote
> > Hello, can anyone suggest a good set of tires heading into another NJ
> > winter. Driving a 1999 A4, 2.8 Quatro. Looking for something all
> > weather, year around. Thanks for your help!

>
> Conti Extreme Contact
> Dunlop SP5000
> Falken 512
> Nokian WR


The conti's appear to be at the top of the heap in terms of specs,
performance numbers and reviews. However, there's one large caveat --
they're only the top tire when they aren't defective. And apparently there's
been an ongoing manufacturing problem that has resulted in an abundance of
tires entering the retail channel defectively "out of round" (essentially
lopsided and prone to vibration). In fact, several tire shops I contacted
when I was recently in the market told me they've temporarily stopped
carrying this line because the defect was so widespread.
Therefore, all I can say is be careful. If you do decide to get them,
make absolutely sure that the 4 tires being installed on your car are not
defective.
As for me, I ended up getting a set of Kumho ECSTA ASX tires for my TT
3.2. And I'm pretty happy with them so far. But I haven't yet faced any real
weather of note. So I can't really speak to their all-season capabilities as
of this moment.

Rob
2002 A4 3.0Q
2005 TT 3.2


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Old October 28th 04, 10:51 AM
Pete
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"+ Rob +" wrote
> And apparently there's
> been an ongoing manufacturing problem that has resulted in an abundance of
> tires entering the retail channel defectively "out of round" (essentially
> lopsided and prone to vibration).


Good point. I did hear about the "out of round" issue, but I didn't realize
it was so wide spread. I was also hoping Conti would have corrected the
problem by now.

Anyway, that's definitely something to keep in mind.

Cheers,

Pete


 




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