Any Recommendations for Budget Tires?

[NicksGTR]

Driving summer only 2018 GT. Kind of a garage queen. Looking at some of the budget tires like Alturro, Nexen, Atlas Force UHP, etc. Any feedback welcome.

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Budget tires

 

[Outlaw]

Driving summer only 2018 GT. Kind of a garage queen. Looking at some of the budget tires like Alturro, Nexen, Atlas Force UHP, etc. Any feedback welcome.

Best tires regardless of price? Continental dws06+ they don't break the bank either so they would be a good option.

 

[Coyotebawl]

General Gmax-RS are a good option to consider as well .

 

[Tripp051420]

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/i’ve-noticed-a-tire-trend.219974/post-4421520

 

[mcky2011]

Tires and brakes are the most important thing between you and the road, I would never opt for price over performance. Performance car = performance tires.

Do you need to buy Michelin Pilot Sport? Probably not but please do not buy cheap Chinese or Korean tires.

Tire Rack has many resources on tire testing, although they are most likely financially influenced. Tire Research You can also talk to your local tire sellers not named after a major retail tire manufacturer. Discount Tire usually is a great resource if you have one near by or you can give Discount Tire Direct a call. They still offer advice (for now) after their merger with Tire Rack.

As mentioned above Continental DWS are great quality and perform well if not pushed too hard. I have run the variants on my cars since the early 2000's without issue. I use them on my Mach 1 for winter, when it warms up the Michelin PS4S are back on with a very noticeable difference.

 

[xl_cheese]

Tires and brakes are the most important thing between you and the road, I would never opt for price over performance. Performance car = performance tires.

Right. Why buy a high performance car and then the cheapest tires possible? Not only that but the better your tires are the safer your car is.

 

[Gen 6 Mach1]

Tires and brakes are the most important thing between you and the road, I would never opt for price over performance. Performance car = performance tires.

Do you need to buy Michelin Pilot Sport? Probably not but please do not buy cheap Chinese or Korean tires.

Tire Rack has many resources on tire testing, although they are most likely financially influenced. Tire Research You can also talk to your local tire sellers not named after a major retail tire manufacturer. Discount Tire usually is a great resource if you have one near by or you can give Discount Tire Direct a call. They still offer advice (for now) after their merger with Tire Rack.

As mentioned above Continental DWS are great quality and perform well if not pushed too hard. I have run the variants on my cars since the early 2000's without issue. I use them on my Mach 1 for winter, when it warms up the Michelin PS4S are back on with a very noticeable difference.

Agreed ∆
If I need tires I go see my local Discount tire. I've been a loyal customer for 35 plus years , they have always been very good to me . Daily driver they recommend a middle of the road tire, that doesn't break the wallet .
My Mach , I had a few Choices on Top tier tires , I choose Michelin pilot sport 4s. .
U can get a quality tire like mentioned above. Happy Motoring...

 

[CXRs]

General Gmax-RS are a good option to consider as well .

I'll second this. I run these on every performance car I have and they've been very good to me. They're not quite at the PS4S level, but they're close enough that you won't notice a difference 99% of the time. It's basically Continental's best tech from 10 years ago.

 

[Snakebyte]

Tires and brakes are the most important thing between you and the road, I would never opt for price over performance. Performance car = performance tires.

Do you need to buy Michelin Pilot Sport? Probably not but please do not buy cheap Chinese or Korean tires.

Tire Rack has many resources on tire testing, although they are most likely financially influenced. Tire Research You can also talk to your local tire sellers not named after a major retail tire manufacturer. Discount Tire usually is a great resource if you have one near by or you can give Discount Tire Direct a call. They still offer advice (for now) after their merger with Tire Rack.

As mentioned above Continental DWS are great quality and perform well if not pushed too hard. I have run the variants on my cars since the early 2000's without issue. I use them on my Mach 1 for winter, when it warms up the Michelin PS4S are back on with a very noticeable difference.

Agreed, and from experience.

My son, when in college, had my 1992 T-bird Sport. I kept OEM Eagle GA's throughout the car's life and it handled well. However, when my son had a flat in his college town, the flim-flam tire business he went to told him he needed to replace all 4 (which only had about 2k each miles on them.) Anyway, the car was so squirrely with the cheap tires, I was very concerned for my son's safety on the interstate, and on the hills of TN.

It doesn't matter that cars/suspensions improved over the years, we are never more safe than the quality of tires we are on.

 

[pinksurfer]

so I'll answer the op's actual question asking about budget tires instead of lecturing on this and that......

I put atturo's on my car last fall when I changed out the rims and did springs/shocks, a few steeda suspension bits and powerstop z26 brakes on the brembos. all changes done at once so no real comparo from the ps4's to atturos only... size are 20's and 285 fronts, 305 rears. car is also a garage/cars and coffee queen currently at 37k miles. zero track/strip time and I don't stoplight race nor corner carve.

tires seem quiet and don't have any real complaints about them. I did a lot at once but overall car seems to handle the basic commute once in a while and weekend shows. I also have quite a bit of go fast parts running E and I will say that traction is completely worthless in the first 3 gears but I have no a/b comparison to say it's the tires. overall for the $825 I spent on a set of 4 from discount tire, they get the job done and I don't feel "unsafe" at all. brakes seem as grippy as the day I bought the car that had brand new ps4's and factory brakes on it.

I don't expect to get a ton of life out of these and when they are done I am leaning toward trying some conti's but would I buy these again? yes.... they have been a good tire for the money so far but again I only have around 750 miles on them.

I shopped atturo/nitto/firestone and my guy at discount said for the cheaper tires, atturo would be what he would spec. the others were 3-500 more and he said no real benefit. lots on here bag on the atturo's but in the off road world, they build some highly rated tires so I figure some of that tech rolls down into the performance tire world.

 

[RNM]

Right. Why buy a high performance car and then the cheapest tires possible? Not only that but the better your tires are the safer your car is.

Same reason why some people put 87 octane in a performance car with high compression.

 

[robvas]

Since you didn't even manage to mention what tire size you want to run, I'm going to go with 275/40-19

TireRack.com, sorting by price.

BRIDGESTONE POTENZA S001 RFT
Closeout, $177.61 per
4 in stock

Those are 2022 manufacturing dates so you might not hit the mileage before they reach 8-10 years old.

The next cheapest one I would buy (not a Laufenn) would be the SUMITOMO HTR A/S P03 which are $221 each. But at that point I'm spending $50/more a tire to get something waaay better.

Now, someone who's going to try to find the cheapest tire they can will probably use SimpleTire.com, let's go there and sort by price.

I'll skip over Otani, Celimo, Acellera...

Atturo AZ850 is $124, would greatly suggest the Hankook Ventus S1 evo2 for $149, General Altimax Sport for $172

 

[blankman]

Driving summer only 2018 GT. Kind of a garage queen. Looking at some of the budget tires like Alturro, Nexen, Atlas Force UHP, etc. Any feedback welcome.

I'm not sure if you have mentioned this, but what is your budget and what tire size are you looking for? The overall budget for tires , mounting/ balancing would help with recommendations.

 

[TonyT930]

Best tires regardless of price? Continental dws06+ they don't break the bank either so they would be a good option.

I second this choice!!

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