BKS said:
The Geolanders need to be replaced after just 30,000 miles. And after having
a blowout with my family in the car, I'd like to try others. I know a
blowout can happen with any tire, but I took great care of these
tires---rotated every 6,000 miles, checked air every week, etc.
I noticed that you said they were not faring well with 35,000 miles on
your first post; now you mention they need to be replaced after just 30,000
miles. ??? Is this to say that you should have dumped them 5,000 miles back
and didn't, or what? Just wondering.
As to the mileage you got, we got 28K on my wife's 99 Forester, and I
opted to change the Geolanders on my 99 Forester at the same time; with 25K
on them, they were pretty shot too. The second set for us were another
Yokohama product, the S305 bought at NTB (formerly TireAmerica) and they did
well and gave us each over 45K before we just bought new tires last week.
They were getting sketchy in heavy rain and I didn't want to test them out
this winter, so we bought Kumho 717 tires from a local dealer. Paid $68 per
tire. I very much like them so far, excellent grip, great wide channels in
the center to dump water out, and good number of sipes for snow traction.
This is preliminary, of course, but I think they'll do fine.
You can read about them and read reviews at Tirerack.com and order from
them if you wish, for possibly a bit less than I paid. I chose to give the
dealer the small extra price per tire rather than order from Tirerack and
then have him put them on. Good for future relations there, and he is an
honest guy I like to deal with.
Good luck with your search. By the way, I went up a size to 225/60/16 to
correct a small underreading of my speedo, and it seems to be better at that
size, now within 1% accurate, though it was more like 3% under before. I did
that with the previous set and stuck with it again.
