Hope you had a good reason to move from Texas to Seattle. I hope you got a heck of a pay raise! My crazy brother moved from Hawaii to Wisconsin! To marry a women!
Tires have been in use for about 2 years with 17K miles on them, well within the 6 year / 70K mile warranty. All 4 replaced at the same time at DT followed by periodic rotation + balance at the same shop.
By definition, GOM = Guess-o-Meter. The operative word is "guess". Using the GOM as evidence that higher rolling resistance tires don't impact range is the opposite of scientific. And the GT is just as efficient as the Premium 4X? Not according to Ford.
I moved here to work for Microsoft 10 years ago, I’m almost making twice as much as I did in Texas. I ended up loving it here. Snowboarding in the winter. Motorcycle track days in the summer. Dirt bike riding in the woods all year long.
I had a Mazda 3 that had low profile tires from the factory, I got 11,000 miles out of the OEM'S replaced them with Pirelli's that had a 60,000 mile warranty on them. I got about 30,000 miles out of them. I live where there are lots of curves and lots of elevation changes. Paid close to $1,000.00 for the first set, used the pro-rated warranty on the next set and paid around 500 bucks for the next set. Done this a couple more times, saved me lots of money. So yea I have used the tire wear warranty, I usually buy my tires from Discount Tire.
I can vouch for how great these Pilot Sport All-Season 4’s are! Way better than the 3’s and amazing traction but definite loss of efficiency, big time!
Here you go, openly not huge differences. Notice too the Hypertrac did better than either in a bunch of categories.
I wish they would also test efficiency, because I bet some of them have higher rolling resistance than others and that might just be the thing that helps me pick my next tire. For now, the DWS 06+ seems to be the best choice for me. Or maybe I will stick with the stock tires. I am not sure I am ready to lose 10-20 miles of range.
Well, from what I have seen none of these are very efficient. Like Europe the United States should rate rolling resistance on every tire. Just adopt the euro labels and rating process and your done. Expect 6% maybe as high as 10% loss on any of these. The next generation is these will be a much smaller loss and be much more comfortable over bumps
That is my feeling as well. Which is why I am not sure that works for me. At highway speeds, I am getting 220-240 range. A 10% loss could cut that down to less than 200, and then throw in some cold days, I could be at less than 150. I don't think I can deal with that.
I personally chose the Continental DWS 06 Plus, and love the quiet, handling, and traction on my GTPE. Tire Rack did a comparison test of four tires including the Continental and the Michelin in 2021: Tire Test Results : Testing Premium Ultra High Performance All-Season Tires 2021 (tirerack.com) .
Here are the results from people who have actually bought the tires, also from tire rack.
