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Thread: Winter tire shopping Bridgestone or Continental for 13 GT

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    Winter tire shopping Bridgestone or Continental for 13 GT

    Bridgestone Blizzaks WS-90 or Continental Viking Contact 7

    Gearing towards Viking since it's on cheaper side with good reviews.

    ​​​​​​​Thoughts?

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    My vote goes to the Continentals as well.

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    Neither and by a huge margin.
    Haka's if the budget will allow.


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    If your on a tight budget, Sailun are extremely capable n priced very right.


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    General Altimax Arctic 12 is good value too. General is owned by Continental, and this tire is one from their European Gislaved subsidiary that is relabelled as a General for the North American market. Great performer, especially for the price.


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    I'm with ED ^^ had Altimax last 2 sets of snows , no issue's what so ever, my only observation is they maybe a little noisey on the HWY ??
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    I ran Gislaved's on my 07 GT for 7 winters and have them now for my Jetta and no issues there at all to be honest. I was only following what the OP was asking between the two tires. But Agreed on all parts that there are a lot of tires better valued and more capable than the two that he listed.

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    I run Blizzaks on one of my cars and find them marginally better than the inexpensive China snows I run on the others.

    I got them cheap through family but wouldn't pay full pop for them.

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    Looks like ALTIMAX ARCTIC 12 only goes up to 18in

    I have 19's and running brembo's.

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    Blizzak's are great the first season. They are a dual compound tire with softer outer layer but once you burn through the first half of the tire life they are no better than an all season tire. For the money you can do much better than Blizzak.

    I have been using Yokohama Icegaurd on my dd. Great performance overall and I am very pleased with how they respond, how they have worn and I find them much less noisy than Blizzak. They were marginally less expensive.

    When I was doing my research, I read great things about Continentals and a Pirelli offering.

    My daughter wanted a reasonably priced and reliable winter tire. We found Starfire Tires. They are a division of Cooper Tire. I was really impressed with the ride at the price - noisy but they do the job. I would think your exhaust note would cover the road noise though.

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