Best Tires for Volkswagen Golf

I ran 205 50 17 93W Continental All weather 3MPSF tires on 17x6.5 VW Gavia wheels last winter.

I vote for ws-90, those tires are unstoppable in our Ontario winters. Had them on my old mk4, my e60 550i bmw, and will be getting some now for my 7.5 GTI

Nokian Hakkapeliitta R5. I have them on my Mk7.5 and love them. They are T rated, but very quiet. I do mostly highway driving.

I live in a ski town BC, that averages >30 FEET of snowfall annually. Often roads have caked snow, sluff, sleet & ice. Between dodging tourists, wildlife and staying firmy lodged, I don't dick around. I get the best. Studded Hakka's 10, that just replaced a set that I had about 30-35,000km on.

DWS06+ is a great choice for A/S IMO. I think I prefer them over actual summers as a daily tire for summer as well: better tread life, better ride, nicely communicative, & plenty of grip for open road endeavors IME.

IME/FWIW front to back & side to side is fine w/ the DWS06+ although never really had too much of a difference in wear side to side over many sets of them on several vehicles. Front to back has been the biggest difference in wear on my Mk 6, 8.5V S3, Alltrack, & Mk 7.5.

Nokian Hakkepalitta get me everywhere I need to go, even plowing snow 10 inches deep.

CrossClimate2 tires, they're really fantastic all-year and in particular great with the winter and snow.

I was running stock Bridgestones - they’re 240 TW. They’re street tires and I don’t think I do enough track days to go w a more track oriented tire. They felt quite good on track. Not great. Good.

I have just about 9100 miles on my 2024 Golf R, purchased just over a year ago. The car just went through PA Stat inspectio, after which the service tech told me the tires are at 4/32. It passed the inspection but there’s not much left on the tires. The car as new came with Hankook Venus S1 evo 3 tires. It seems almost unbelievable to me that I may only get 10,000 miles out of these tires.