Time to get new tire. Need info about LRR tires.

[wildfire8]

I live in Utah, and winter will be here soon enough. I am in need of some new tires and want to get some LRR tires but one concern is how well they drive in the snow. Right now my commute is up a 3 lane cannon road. Last winter I had a bit of a hard time getting up in heavy snow slid around quite a bit.

I am looking for a good tire that is rated for year round use. Something that I can use threw the winter. Does anyone have any advice on which LRR tires can do that?

[Daox]

I'd check tirerack.com. They recently added a filter to their search for LRR tires. They also rate most of their tires.

[cfg83]

wildfire8 -

I am going to get these today :

Continental ProContact with EcoPlus Technology



I don't know if they'd serve your purposes.

I've had the following tires for 65K miles in mild LA weather and they have a very similar tread pattern :

Continental ContiProContact



Here are some reviews of my old tire (there are more than this) :

Continental ContiProContact

I live in PA and conduct mostly all highway driving. I would not recommend these tires to anyone. When I purchased my car, these tires were on the vehicle. The road noise after about 1500 miles was absolutely aweful. So preoccupied by the road noise I no longer enjoyed driving the vehicle, let alone trying to enjoy the radio was a mistake. The tire tread is aweful. My vehicle is AWD, the rear tire tread at about 15000 miles was almost non-existant. I never imagined having to replace tires between 15000 and 2000 miles, but will be purchasing new tires next week. I am looking to go back to Michelins and hope to get a much better wearing and high performance tire.
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The noise level on this tire is unacceptable.
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I did alot or tire size research and these are these best size tire for chevy 2000 malibu 3.1L. 195/65/R15. They are not a good tire if you drive fast and do fast cornering. But basic everyday driving they are great. They also are nice and narrow for snow. Driving in 6 inches of snow is super easy without even a wheel spin. I could probably even plow through 8 inches+ of snow without a issue. Stopping on ice is about the same as a 215/65/R15. So no gains on ice. Fuel mileage is same. Speedometer is same no need to adjust, 60 mph is 60 mph right on the dot. I mounted these 195/65/R15 on the stock malibu steel black rims and they still go over the edge yet. So perfect. Also this size of tire is about $20 cheaper then buying the factory 215/65/R15. I am super happy with these tires and the size I chose and spent days researching tire sizes for a small tire patch area. I plan on getting another set once I wear these babys out passing 4x4's stuck in the snow.

The ones I am getting today also have a few reviews, but they don't mention snow. The tire just hasn't been around enough to have more reviews.

CarloSW2