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I had to break down and buy a new set of tires after 30k since my wife didn't rotate the tires while I was gone on deployment. The bad part about having the 18 inch rim is find a tire that is not OEM and isn't outageously expensive. After 2 days of searching for tires I found three all season tires for the 18's.
The first is the OEM goodyears which are way over priced. The second are the hankook ventus tires which doesn't have very great reviews and the third is the cooper CS4's which is also the ones that I went with. I couldn't find a bad review about them so I thought that they must be good. So good in fact that Motortrends did an article about them. I started to call around to find them and to get prices for the tires. The prices were ranging from $186.00 to $230.00 before mounting and balance.
Since discount tires prices matches on or off line prices I went back the search but since this tire size just became available from cooper is was hard to dealers on-line with prices. Thanks to nanohead :notworthy: :rock: on the acadia side, he was able to find them for $129 at mavistire.com in New York.
With my mavis quote in hand I was then able to get them ordered then two day later mounted, balanced and out the door for $645.17
On first ride these tires are nothing short of amazing. The road noise is all but gone and they stick through the corners without chirping or squealing. There is very little tire to road friction so if you touch the gas you will accelerate quicker than the OEM's and coast longer so there should be some increase in fuel economy and I will have to post an update when I can about this. No problems in the rain or at highway speeds so far and I am just hoping that it will snow this year so that I can try them out in that kind of weather. These tires come with a 6 year 80k warranty plus a 45 day trial so if you don’t like them then you take them back for a full refund through Cooper. The tires that I just got are 2 months old so very fresh rubber.
I will update again when these tires get some mileage.
Happy Driving, Will
:cheers:
The first is the OEM goodyears which are way over priced. The second are the hankook ventus tires which doesn't have very great reviews and the third is the cooper CS4's which is also the ones that I went with. I couldn't find a bad review about them so I thought that they must be good. So good in fact that Motortrends did an article about them. I started to call around to find them and to get prices for the tires. The prices were ranging from $186.00 to $230.00 before mounting and balance.
Since discount tires prices matches on or off line prices I went back the search but since this tire size just became available from cooper is was hard to dealers on-line with prices. Thanks to nanohead :notworthy: :rock: on the acadia side, he was able to find them for $129 at mavistire.com in New York.
With my mavis quote in hand I was then able to get them ordered then two day later mounted, balanced and out the door for $645.17
On first ride these tires are nothing short of amazing. The road noise is all but gone and they stick through the corners without chirping or squealing. There is very little tire to road friction so if you touch the gas you will accelerate quicker than the OEM's and coast longer so there should be some increase in fuel economy and I will have to post an update when I can about this. No problems in the rain or at highway speeds so far and I am just hoping that it will snow this year so that I can try them out in that kind of weather. These tires come with a 6 year 80k warranty plus a 45 day trial so if you don’t like them then you take them back for a full refund through Cooper. The tires that I just got are 2 months old so very fresh rubber.
I will update again when these tires get some mileage.
Happy Driving, Will
:cheers: