Tire decision help please

I would take a look at the Nokian WRg3 in spite of a somewhat higher cost. They will give good MPG, Are great in snow/ice, and are usable for about 55k miles year around.

JeffD

 

Check out the Toyo Versado Noir

 

That would be my choice between the 2 as well.

 

Come one people....

She doesn't want OTHER brand recommendations.- Very specific between 2 tires.

Given the description of what you seem to be valuing most in a tire, I would lean towards the one that is sold by Michelin themselves as being the more "All-Season" choice. That would be the Premier A/S.

I disagree with your husband that "A tire is a tire"....there are differences in quality, design aim, and performance. BUT....I would say both those tires are good, and you wouldn't of made a huge mistake with either. Depending on what you have on your vehicle now, you might take a MPG hit with either.

Since you only have 72,000 miles on a 2008 vehicle, I don't know how much you would really be benefiting from the "long life" and tire wear durability, which seem to be the primary selling points of The Defender.

 

Of the two, I think it's your better choice.
My only concern would be it's not sold as being a low rolling resistance tire, so you might take a MPG hit.

But good luck, and yes, let us know how you like them or not.

Now I'm going to feel bad if you end up hating them.

 

TireRack lists them as LRR, but the term has such a wide gamut it's really something you need to verify through user's experience. Here's a thread, OP started replaced his OEM Primacy's with Premier A/S, eventually swapped back to Primacy. It's in 215/45R17 size though. Tire choices can be maddening, that's all I know with certainty, lol.

215/45/17 my Michelin premier review | PriusChat

 

Thanks, I got from the very cursory, quick google search that I did, that the Defenders seemed to be advanced as being "fuel efficient" while the Premier A/S was marketed as being obviously...."All-Season"...so my recommendation was weighted towards the A/S because the OP seemed to want "Everything" in a tire.

I will admit however, I have no experience with either tire.

I do have experience many years back with Michelin, and I found them to be spendy tires, but VERY good. This was however decades back, and with a set of Michelins on a truck...not a Prius. But my feeling is Michelin makes good tires. So you can't really go too wrong.

 

Michelin Canada used to grade the tires for "fuel efficiency". I believe they had the Premiers at 9 (out of 10, 10 being best), and the Defenders at 8. It seems pretty loose all-in-all though.

 

I have about 10,000 miles on my Premiers and I love them. Go with the tire pressure recommended for your car posted on the door frame. Higher pressure will give you a rougher ride and you won't gain much in fuel mileage.

 

That's a very solid improvement, doubly so with new tires; what were the tires on there before?