Owner reviews for tires

I just went from Federal 595 RS-RR (very loud but performed well on street and autocross) to their 595 RS-Pro (waaaaay quiter, I love these tires so far).

Agree with others who point out that you can run anything but, since you're looking for upgrades, I can attest that the Continental Extremecontact DWS 06+ is an absolutely fantastic UHP all-season if you're not in a climate where you have dedicated summer and winter tires. I went to them straight after Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires and I'm not going back to Michelins.

I have a set of Yokohama BluEarths, $120 per wheel including labour

I also own a set of these, I can confirm. Fits my BMW very well as they used to make airplane engines, and these sound like a Messerschmidt prop plane.

A lot of people say they last longer than others!

3: [Yokohama ADVAN Apex V601]: this is a fav of all the porsche crowd at track days as they offer about 5% less grip than a PS4S or the other two tires I listed, but they will go all day at a track day and never chunk and still get 25k miles out of them.

I've been running PS4S on my 6mt Mk8 GTI and have been pretty happy. Great balance of road/ rain performance and comfort, but still enough grip to have fun.

I bought a similar cooper tire for its long life.  Harsh and noisy.

Every Good year tire that I have owned was terrible. When I got my most recent F150 new it came with Good Years and I slid all over in just rain... put Michelins on in under a year as a result and was very happy. I do highway driving a lot so sliding in rain basically just coasting wasn't going to do well on a wet highway.

I have a set of PS4S’s that I have on right now. I find the Michelin’s to be horrible in the rain.