Originally Posted By: tommygunn
Good tire brands besides the ones mentioned in post #3 are Kumho, Hankook, Sumitomo, Falken, Toyo, General, BFGoodrich, Vredestein, Nokian, and maybe Cooper and Kelly as well.
Forgot Nokian. My apologies.
On the rest... Yes, they make tires that are decent-ish. Two points:
1. IME, there's always an option from one of the bigger brands that costs about the same and is just better.
2. What's a "good brand?" Is it a brand that has the ability to make a decent product for the money, or is it one that you can rely on for decent products more often than not? To me, it's the latter. If we want to get specific about products, that's a different story.
And in any case, let's not forget that Federal is clearly a notch below even most of the ones in that list, so...