11-15-2012, 12:12 AM
Last weekend I bought a set of Michelin Defender all-season tires for my VW Passat from Sears (195/65R15 for $129 each plus tax, mounting, balancing, etc. w/$70 total rebate on the set.). 90k mile warranty. I live in flat country but we can get a fair amount of snow and our local roads can stay snow and ice covered for months at a time. But most of our driving is on bare pavement. No real reason for snow tires, it'll go through six inches of snow which is when it runs out of clearance and snow tires would then make no difference. My OEM Michelins went 98k miles. No more 30k mile junk tires anymore. And these are supposed to have a fairly low rolling resistance for my Diesel car.