ok, my dad has decided to upgrade the wheels on his 01 legacy to the subaru 18 spokes but is unsure of what tire to get. Tires are far from my area of excellence so to all you guys who know tires (esp. dex) what do you recomend. Price range is about 120 looking for good, long lasting, all season that is not noisy. performance should be good but my dad is not the performance freak I am so it is not the number one priority (he wont be auto-x'ing.) Here are the tires we were thinking:

Toyo Proxes TPT
http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?ti...del=Proxes+TPT

Continental ContiExtreme Contact
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....ireModel=Conti
ExtremeContact&vehicleSearch=false&partnum=055VR6C EC&fromCompare1=yes

Michelin Hydro-Edge
http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?ti...=HydroEdge%3Cs
up%3ETM%3C%2Fsup%3E

Bridgestone Potenza G009
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....ireModel=Poten
za+G009&vehicleSearch=false&partnum=055HR6G009&fro mCompare1=yes

Falken ziex 512
http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?ti...=Ziex+ZE%2D512

oh yeah, he lives in Portland OR so wet performance is important.

 

Falken FK451 is mo' bettah

 

TireRack.com Look for Kumho Ecsta MX 225/50/16.... I have them & they're great in that price range.

 

Subarus need H rated tires or higher - so scratch out the Hydroedge. If your dad is like mine, I'd look at these:

Bridgestone Potenza RE950 and Turanza LS-H
Dunlop SP Sport A2
If you consider him "somewhat aggressive," look at the Conti Extremes.

Anything higher than H speed rated is tough to get >40k miles on. I'd look mainly at H rated tires and expect around 50k miles out of most.

Keep in mind, I do not have the ability to test the Falkens and Toyos so wait for some more posts to get ideas on those.

 

 

I think he decided on the Toyo's, last falkens we had wore out WAY too fast

 

Not to knock your recommendation, but Kumho's manufacturing quality is pretty inconsistent... your set may be a "good" set, but there's also "bad" (ie poorly manufactured) sets out there as well. Just a word of warning
Oh, and whitelegacy98, let us know how the Toyo's go... I'm interested

 

Not to mention the MX are max performance tires, which his father is clearly not in the market for.