great !

people don't seem to rate Goodyears very highly

we have Continental's as originals over here - they seem a good tyre

 

Great to hear that you really like the H727 tires. I have been collecting data on those tires for a year. I have Continental ExtremeWinterContact on my winter wheels and those work great on the PAT. I have also been keeping an eye out for the Continental ProContact w/ EcoPlus. They did well in a CR test.

 

I like my Geolanders.

 

when manufacturers put stock tires on a car,
they have to find tires that suit everybody,
looking at the tread pattern at hankook, while they may be good for you,
i wouldnt want touring tires on my jeep
i didnt like the SRA's, but they were fine for 60k miles, in various conditions

 

I recently bpught the Cooper Discverer AT3s. It was between them and the Firestone Destination ATs and came down to price...

 

I like my geolanders also

 

I've got Geolandars too and am very happy with the way they look and perform.

 

x2. I have absolutely nothing negative to say about Geolandars. Had them for about six months now and 6k miles. Once again Yokohama delivered a great product.

 

I use dedicated winter tires for snow and ice. When my OEM SRA's wore out, I bought Cooper CS4 touring tires and this summer I got the Hankook H727's after finally wearing out the Coopers. I have a lot of miles on our Patriot and both brands were fine for their intended purpose but I admit to using our 99 Cherokee with rugged winter tires for deer hunting.

 

Get you some Goodyears or Coopers, they'll get you where you can go in the Patriot.

 

x3 on the Geolander AT/S

 

My new Pat has Goodyear Eagle LS-2 P205/70R16. Very few tire mfg's make that size. Had SR-A's on my last Dakota ... only got 16k on them. A tire I really like is the Mastercraft MSR - great wet and snow traction. Would have go to a 215/70R16 to get more choices.

 

what tires are best for the jeep patriot?

Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac. /thread

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/surveyresults/surveydisplay.jsp?type=ORCT

Unless of course your Patriot leads the sad life of only being on dry or wet pavement, then the Duratracs are probably not going to fit your needs very well.

people don't seem to rate Goodyears very highly

In case you didn't see above....
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/surveyresults/surveydisplay.jsp?type=ORCT

Number 1 tire by owner survey, Goodyear.

 

I ran the duratracs on my TJ, yes they are super awesome. They do great in ALL conditions including dry pavement, but where they shine is snow, ice and rain. They are so good that I wrote Goodyear an email asking them to please please make them in some smaller sizes so more patriot owners can enjoy them.



This is what I received

"From:*** goodyear_cr@goodyear.com on 11/01/2012 11:15 AM

Sent by:*** Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Consumer Relations 728 1144 East
* * ***Market Street Akron, OH 44316 Voice #: 800.321.2136 Fax #:
* * ***330.796.6829

Mr. ******,

Thank you for contacting our web site and choosing Goodyear tires for your
vehicle needs. I will forward your email to our marketing department for
consideration on offering more sizes of the Duratrac model.

Jennifer - Consumer Relations.

 

Goodyear Eagle LS R16 tires are crap on my Patriot. I ordered Dunlop's from tirerack.com 3 months ago and they are awesome. Smoother ride than the Goodyears. I recommend the Dunlops.

 

Dunlop is owned by Goodyear just FYI.

 

Yokohama Geolanders I believe on mine, great tire, just noisy as all heck once they wear down a little.

 

Our stock Goodyears went bad at 48000...I really wanted to squeeze 50K out of them but wife wouldn't let me. Saw the CR report on the H727s and being frugal, decided to give them a try. Love the 100,000 mile tread life on them. They ride great, were cheap, looked nice and since Discount Tire installed them, we have that great backing as well. When it was time for the Freestar to get tires, we put H727s on that as well. I think the Hankook Optimo H727 is the best kept secret out there for tires, for those of us that are normal around town, highway trip people with no extreme weather.

 

All tires "go away" as they approach the last of the useful tread.

How much you notice and how badly it affects handling depends on how soft/hard the tread was to start with, how soft or hard you drive and etc.

What happens is as the tread layer wears away the remaining rubber vulcanizes (sort of, to a degree...) and it just gets crappier from there. It gets harder and less sticky the further you wear it down.

That is why the wear bars can be flush but it looks as if there is loads of tread left...that is the manufacturers way of telling you its time to replace.

I'd run a vehicle on wear bars around town for a bit but never through winter or on a highway trip. If you are currently running on wear bars or worse any new tire from any supplier will feel like a million bucks.

 

I just put a set of Falken SenceraTouring, 225 60R 17s on mine. But then I try not to go off road on purpose.

 

I wish the duratracs came in the OEM size. I've got some on my JKU and they've never had an issue. I want them on all vehicles I own.

 

Ordering tires this weekend from Tire Rack and going with the Hankooks thanks to recommendations on here. Can't really comment on the GY's as they were pretty worn when we got ours, but past experience with the brand doesn't fill me with a lot of love for them. Looked at the Geolanders (I've run Yoko's on my cars for years) but at twice the price I don't see them being 2x as good for the mall-rated tasks our Patriot is put to. If we lived in an area with more unpaved roads to travel, that would be a different discussion. Fact is, ours is used like a car instead of a truck. I can't see it not going anywhere on 727's our Subaru couldn't with it's crappy generic tires it came with. Don't buy more tire than you need in the name of vanity.

 

I find it quite odd that if you go to a site like Tirerack.com and type in your vehicle it gives you very few options for tires for the Patriot. 205/70-16 are the original size, and they just two choices. 215/60-17 are the secondary option, which has many more choices.

So what are most of you running with?

 

Ignatz came with the LS2s which were a decent but not outstanding tire. No complaints really. They were acceptable on dry roads or in snow, and pretty darn good in the rain. They even got me out of a spot where I shouldn't have gone with only FWD, but I give more credit to the vehicle than to the tires. IMHO they were better than the Wild Country (generic) that I replaced them with.

For winter I run General Altimax Artics and they are pretty awesome. They make driving in snow with FWD a comfortable experience.

The Wild Country are 205/75-16 and the Generals are 215/65-16. You're so right about there not being any options for the 205/70-16s! There is an ever-so-slight speedometer error with the smaller Generals -- maybe 1-2 MPH at 60MPH.