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Michelin Pilot HX MXM4.
They have poor road noise (compared to even performance summer tires), poor ride quality, **** poor wet traction, poor to abysmal dry traction, no lateral support, poor tire wear, and they've got an ugly tread to boot.
Their only purpose its getting the car from the dealer to your house, at which point the tires should be burned, so no one else has to experience the utter ---- that is a michelin budget tire.
The words "grand touring tire" actually means "may endanger the lives of you and your family."
I replaced these with Falken ZIEX-512's, which cost rougly 1/2 of the price of a single michelin, and were superior in every single aspect of driveability. I've begun to think that the word "Michelin" stands for "Overpriced".
The Michelin MXV4 Plus's on the 16x7 Mazda 6i's were argubly better then the Pilots, but still squeel like a pig and have mediocre levels of dry/wet traction compared to something like a Toyo Proxy4...which still costs less. Thus I wouldn't call them bad, but "meh" tires.
[ October 20, 2004, 08:20 AM: Message edited by: crossbow ]