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Best All-Season Tires [2022]
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Best All-Season Tires [2022]
For North American drivers facing all the elements, all-season tires are a popular choice. In this guide, we choose and narrow it down to some of the best all-season tires for SUVs & light trucks, for cars & crossovers, and select some of the top-rated high-performance all-season tires for increased handling. We pick 7 choices for SUVs and light trucks, 5 top picks for cars, and 4 great options for those hitting the snow for more high-performance duties.To get more news about best all season tires for cars, you can visit gofortunetire.com official website.
The Sailun TerraMax HLT is a newer entry in the light truck and SUV tire category and has quickly become a strong seller. Sailun says it conceived this tire for long tread life and quiet, stable highway driving. Sizes range from 15 to 20 inches, suited to a wide range of applications including SUVs and pickup trucks.
Michelin’s replacement for the LTX M/S comes to the marketplace with the brand’s Evertread technology, which the company says improves tread life by 10 per cent compared with its predecessor, the confusingly named M/S2. The Defender LTX M/S’s strengths are its hydroplaning resistance and low road noise. Despite its all-season rating, it’s also an above-average performer in snow traction and ice braking.This tire offers a wider range of fitments than the Sailun TerraMax HLT, especially in 15- and 20-inch sizes. Michelin also offers a 22-inch size. While that may give the impression the Defender LTS M/S is ideal for high-powered luxury SUVs, note that its top speed rating is H, or 210 km/h. Read our full Michelin Defender LTX M/S review.
The Scorpion Verde finishes a notch down from the two Michelin Defender LTX tires for two reasons: It offers less grip for braking on icy surfaces and a less-generous treadwear warranty. On the plus side, it boasts better wet and dry braking grip, a quiet ride and good hydroplaning resistance. And while the Scorpion Verde comes in a narrower range of rim sizes (16 to 20 inches) than the Michelins, some sizes bear a Y speed rating (300 km/h), which makes it better suited to high-powered and exotic SUV models.Don’t be fooled by this tire’s name: It was the predecessor to the Defender LTX M/S that placed second in our tire ranking. The Defender LTX M/S2 has the same tread pattern as the LTX M/S, but is molded from a less-sophisticated rubber compound than the LTX M/S’s trademarked Evertread formulation. That’s the M/S2’s only real deficit next to the newer M/S: it otherwise offers similar grip levels in dry, wet and winter conditions and comes with the same six-year/115,000 km treadwear warranty.
The CrossContact LX is an all-season tire designed for trucks and crossovers that will see light off-road use. It places just below mid-pack in our light truck category, thanks to a modest selection of sizes and poorer winter traction despite a tread pattern Continental says was optimized for grip in light snow. The CrossContact LX is also more prone to stiffening up in cold weather, which compromises grip on clear roads in winter driving. The sidewall was designed to help prevent curb damage to expensive wheels.
The Ventus ST was designed specifically for high-performance crossovers, which explains its limited range of sizes from 17- to 22-inch wheels. Hankook boasts a quiet ride well-suited to upscale SUVs. Certain sizes carry a W speed rating, which corresponds with a maximum speed of 270 km/h. A relatively low treadwear rating of 420 explains why Hankook limits warranty coverage to 80,000. And despite an all-season designation and “A” ratings for both traction and temperature, the Ventus ST is not well-suited to winter driving, offering poor grip in snow and ice.
The Dueler H/P Sport AS is positioned as a basic all-season SUV and light truck tire, which explains its last-place showing here. It’s not particularly quiet at highway speeds, it has the shortest treadwear warranty of any truck/SUV tire in this comparison and it’s not a strong performer in snow and ice conditions.
Its poor winter grip is disappointing, considering all sizes boast “A” ratings for traction and temperature. If tread life and speed ratings are your primary concerns, be aware that certain sizes come with both 400 and 500 treadwear options, and in the larger rim sizes, maximum speed ratings include H, V and W.