I put the Barums on my CLK350. They are the Czech conti's. Seem fine thus far. I'll keep you posted.
Bob R On Feb 15, 2016 7:19 PM, "Curly McLain via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Try the milestar and give us a report in 40k miles. > > Hankook: Kooky name for a tire. The name is a turn off. The light truck > sizes are sometimes good. > > Toyo, I had some on the escort (Diesel content) fast wear and slipped > belts No mo... > > Michelin: overpriced, slipped belts, have to throw them out when half > worn, so they end up costing 4x as much. The rubber in michelins used to > be noticeably better than other brands as far as lasting years without > cracking. The truck tires were the best carcass for retreading. Their car > tars suck. > > Have cooper CS4s now on the van, but they are discontinued. We'll see how > they do. > > Was looking at cooper on discount tire direct for the SDL. Saw the > cheaper house brand, but was going for a name brand. Too bad the contis > are so expensive now. Every conti I have had was good. Never had a > failure. (but those were mostly German tires. Then seemed to get more > expensive after they bought general and are made in USA.) > > My #1 son has had good luck with several sets of Coopers > > Had some various no name chinee tars. Nothing but trouble. > > The Czechoslovakian contis sounded interesting. > > > Hankook get raves in LA. Just put four on. >> >> I'm a toyo fan and they are really cheap on ebay. >> >> Michelin on the family car. Guess those baby ads worked. >> On Feb 15, 2016 4:24 PM, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I have 4 vehicles I need to order new tires for. One of which is one of >>> my 210 cars. I have pretty much decided to always stick with Michelins >>> only, but on one of my other 210s I just put a set of Pirellis on it >>> which >>> are higher rated slightly on Tirerack, but cheaper. Now I am seriously >>> thinking about trying out these Milestars which are a 50K mile tire and >>> are >>> actually the highest rated tire on discount tire direct, if that means >>> anything. They are almost half the price than the Michelins and only >>> 10k >>> mile less warranty. >>> >>> >>> > >> http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/findTireDetail.do?ra=filterTireProducts.do&fl=&yr=1999&pc=19338&counter=0&ar=55&rd=16&vid=006253&cs=215 >> >>> >>> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
