Q7 needs new tyres every 20k - suggestions?

[nightphotographer]

Thanks again for all the info - it really helps and it's something you don't really think about when you've only owned 1200kg cars, but this is twice the weight!

I'll look into those Michelins, they're $550 so that's $420 more when it comes to 4 tyres but you're confident these will last longer than the Hankooks if it comes down to their TWR?

I'm confident it'll make a significant difference to the life of the tyre - if you consider there's people in the UK who've got 18k miles from their stock Pirellis (which is still about 50% more than me) then they get over 50k miles from swapping to a different brand that means I'd be expecting to get about 25-30k miles which would be more than double the 12.5k miles we're getting now.

[brad]

Nope, not confident at all but I prefer Michelins & I think they are more suited to a $100k (?) motor car.

NB: Latitude Tour seems to be exclusive to Tempe Tyres - it doesn't appear on the Michelin website - so it might be a parallel import or maybe they've cocked-up the size.

Either way, both tyres will give you a better run than the Pirelli. roll the dice.

[nightphotographer]

Yeah I see where you're coming from but I'm going off what people have actually run on the Q7 - all I want is something that's going to last longer than the Pirelli's without compromising grip, comfort, handling or road noise. So yeah it'll come down to either the Hankook or the Michelin. But that being said, I was under the impression that they share the same R&D and are a similar product anyway - similar to VW and Audi's relationship.

[brad]

While they may share R&D, I think Pirelli are too variable in quality. I'm not a fan and they would have to be mega-cheap before I'd fit them on my car.

Maybe Michelin get the good part of the R&D?

[nightphotographer]

We bit the bullet and changed tyre brands - we went with Hankook after all. Mainly as a trial, if we can get 30k+ out of these then we've pretty much doubled our mileage dollar for dollar. But also if we had gone Michelin then we wouldn't have known how good Hankook were, so maybe Michelin next time as a comparison.

I got an allignment done, according to the paperwork the front left was out by 1.5 - I really have no idea what that means but they've set everything to 0.5 now? Unsure if that's good or bad haha. I also got nitrogen put in for good measure haha.

Turns out the tyres we're wearing probably about 30% more on the outer edge, you could really tell once the tyres were off.

Now this is how the new tyres look after about 100kms -


Anything to be concerned about?

[markm1111]

Good thread. We only have 19" wheels on our Q7, and the original Dunlops lasted 25k, but were noisy as hell. Went to Pirellis, only 20k, but sounded better. Have Toyos now and they are quiet, grip well, but jury is till out on wear. Looking good so far though