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[smilingcat]

Hi Catrin,

The other aspect you want to consider besides the wear rate of the tread is their traction. From my limited understanding, better the traction, shorter the life of the tire or less traction for longer wear. I've never heard of 90K tires. Something new.

Example of the traction or wear is a yokohama tires I have on my prius. It's around 50K miles. Traction is okay. I also had a high performance tire on my exotic car. Tires on it lasted 15k miles if you drove really gently. But the traction was more than enough to give your neck a great work out on sharp corners. Traction in the rain was still better than the average tire.

So instead of just looking at the milage rating, you may want to look at how they perform on rain/snow on the road. Other things to consider is its effect on gas consumption. My OEM Prius tires got better milage than the current yokohama tires.

Sorry to muddy it up.

As for the extended warranties, I almost always forgo the extended as they are usually not that good of a deal.

[Catrin]

Thanks Smiling Cat for your thoughts. The tires in question have been out for awhile, and everyone gives them a high rating, traction is said to be quite good...but I've found another tire (Pirelli) with an 85k treadlife and is reported to excel for all seasons - including snow and ice. It was comforting to see most of the reviews were from "cold country", and it is one of Consumer Reports top 4 tires for 2014. Costs the same as the other tire, so I am going to get these instead.

Thanks everyone!

[Catrin]

I pulled the trigger and wound up with a different set than I had initially considered - still Pirelli though. I still think that tires should have some serious bling considering what they cost - but I like the new tires. Great traction rating, 70k rather than 90k tires, and they seem to ride more smoothly than my OEM tires. Not a minute too soon, we are supposed to have icy roads in the morning. Ugh.