XC90 - What tyres?

[mattman]

All 4 of the Scorpions currently fitted to our XC are coming to the end of their life so will be looking to change the set. We do a daily country lane journey of approx 20miles so looking for a all year tyre with perhaps a little more chunkiness than the Scorpion.

Anyone had any experience of Yokohama Geolander A/T-S?? or is the General Grabber UHP the best all rounder?
assuming anything called Nexen or Marshall are going to be rubbish

[y2blade]

Continental here, they are great on our muddy rural lanes with horse trailer on tow, very good on mud tracks too.
I'm pretty sure they are "CrossContact All Terrain"

[400SE Dave]

y2blade said:

Continental here, they are great on our muddy rural lanes with horse trailer on tow, very good on mud tracks too.
I'm pretty sure they are "CrossContact All Terrain"

Conti's for me as well. Not the cheapest but good grip in all conditions and don;t wear to bad either

[Throttle Body]

I had Continentals on my XC90 for the first 4 years, but they wore very quickly (fronts lasted about 8k miles). I'm now on Michelins, which seem to be much more durable - but are more expensive than Contis.

[400SE Dave]

Throttle Body said:

I had Continentals on my XC90 for the first 4 years, but they wore very quickly (fronts lasted about 8k miles).

Wow. Am getting 20k out the fronts and just changed the rears for the first time with 42k on the clock.

[Chris_]

I changed from Scorpions to General Grabbers a couple of years ago, and have just replaced them with another set of GGs. I thought the Grabbers were significantly better in the snow and mud, and were no noisier on the road.

[thegreengoblet]

I've always stuck with Conti's but also only get 8-10k miles from the fronts and about 16-18k from the rears. At £350 a pair, it's cost a small fortune over 5 1/2 years of ownership and 50k miles.

[y2blade]

Throttle Body said:

I had Continentals on my XC90 for the first 4 years, but they wore very quickly (fronts lasted about 8k miles). I'm now on Michelins, which seem to be much more durable - but are more expensive than Contis.

400SE Dave said:

Wow. Am getting 20k out the fronts and just changed the rears for the first time with 42k on the clock.

thegreengoblet said:

I've always stuck with Conti's but also only get 8-10k miles from the fronts and about 16-18k from the rears. At £350 a pair, it's cost a small fortune over 5 1/2 years of ownership and 50k miles.

Are you guys not keeping your tread depth withing a mm or two across all four tires?

I was lead to believe I had to keep an eye on the tread depths and keep all four tires close to each other (IE not changing just one pair for new ones) otherwise it would goose the AWD system.

I keep an eye on mine, but it has only done a handful of miles this year so no measurable wear at all yet.


Please do correct me if I'm wrong, I'll gladly stop ferreting around in the wheel arches with a vernier measuring the tread depth across the tires

Edited by y2blade on Tuesday 30th October 12:37

[400SE Dave]

y2blade said:

Are you guys not keeping your tread depth withing a mm or two across all four tires?

I was lead to believe I had to keep an eye on the tread depths and keep all four tires close to each other (IE not changing just one pair for new ones) otherwise it would goose the AWD system.

I keep an eye on mine, but it has only done a handful of miles this year so no measurable wear at all yet.


Please do correct me if I'm wrong, I'll gladly stop ferreting around in the wheel arches with a vernier measuring the tread depth across the tires

Edited by y2blade on Tuesday 30th October 12:37

I don't know for sure but I know that putting different diameter wheels front and rear is an issue due to rolling radius but I doubt that the minute difference in rolling radius caused by tyre wear is enough to cause issues. If that would be the case you would need to change all 4 tyres if you had a puncture in 1 half worn which would be silly and for sure would put people off buying them.

Just my thoughts.

[Throttle Body]

y2blade said:

Are you guys not keeping your tread depth withing a mm or two across all four tires?

No. Life is too short for that kind of thing. And I had never heard that as being recommended.