![]() In fact, there is less feedback in general. I've never experienced a more dramatic change in on-center feel as I have going between the G2s and Comp-2s. Tire noise is also significantly reduced over the OEM G2s. The car feels more comfortable than it ever has before with regards to road imperfections. ![]() The sidewall, despite being a 35-series tire, is quite compliant. As expected, these acted like any other all-season tire, providing excellent levels of cold-weather grip. It was 29 degrees out when I left the next morning, and the tires met my #1 goal. Due to a story far too long to go into in this post, it took all day to mount these wheels and clean up the old ones, so I didn't get a chance to drive the car until the next morning on my way to work. The day I mounted them it was in the high 40s here for temperature. I opted for all-seasons here because I won't be driving this car in standing snow, I simply wanted a tire that would retain its pliability and grip in freezing temps. For all of the vehicles in my family, I keep two sets of wheels/tires, 1 set with summers, and another with true winter rubber. No suspension/alignment changes were made at this time.įor the record, I typically despise all-season tires. ![]() Note that they are OEM sized, on OEM-sized rims with OEM offsets. The following is my impressions of the tires. My "job" on the Prius is only the keep it washed and fueled.This past Sunday I got around to mounting my brand new MRR 228s with BFGoodrich G-Force COMP-2 A/S all-season rubber to my 1LE. My wife was perfectly happy with the OEM Toyo tires as she now is with the Comp-2's - she's not much into cars as long as they get her to where she wants to go. Looking back, maybe I should have mounted the snow wheels/tires prematurely and then taken my time to find even better A/S tires. and the Comp-2's were the only tire they had in that size. We didn't have time to look around due to my wife departing on a long trip and Costco was the only place we called that had the tire size we needed in stock. The Comp-2 tires provide a much more compliant ride than the OEM Toyo tires but there are likely still better tires out there. Then verify that your new tires are set to the same pressures. To get a fair comparison, I suggest that you set the cold pressures of your Toyo tires to the settings shown on the driver door pillar before driving to Costco - 33 psi front, 32 psi rear assuming that it is the same for the 2017 as the 2012. Her tires usually "age out" and are replaced long before they wear out.Ĭlick to expand.All I can tell you is that the difference was extremely noticeable and unexpected and that the noise and pain from expansion joints and pot holes seemed much less. It's rare for my wife to wear out a set of tires on "her" cars. (She refuses to drive the larger vehicles I prefer and buy for myself.) One reason the Toyo's might have worn faster is that the car has rarely been driven out of town - only about 1,400 miles on road trips. She didn't buy the Prius for its fuel economy but because it is a Toyota, has PCS and DRCC and is reasonably small. My wife isn't interested in maxing out tire pressure to get better fuel economy. The snow wheels/tires will be going on the Prius only two months from now. If the one Toyo tire hadn't been damaged, the set would have been replaced anyway before next Spring due to the tread depth. The tire pressures were kept at 33/32 psi per the label on the door post and air added or drained as necessary as ambient temperatures changed but jolts over expansion joints and potholes were still extraordinarily harsh. ![]() The treads on the Toyo's wore uniformly and were at about 4/32 inch which is widely regarded as the minimum for safety in rain. Click to expand.There is no alignment problem. ![]()
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