Tires DUNLOP or OEM Volkswagen

Just got a set of Dunlop Trailmax Missions mounted on my 800 XCa and very impressed with them so far. They grip surprisingly well on the road and handle gravel and service roads/hard pack dirt roads with ease.

I have D606 on both ends at the moment. Perfectly fine on dry pavement once you trust them.

Tusk Dsport is same tread design as Dunlop 606 but 1/2 the cost. Love mine.

That's the setup I've run the most and it does just fine on pavement. I get tons of miles from the d606.

My last rear was a d606 and now I’m running the tusk d-sport. I know it’s probably blasphemy on here but I like it better than the d606

I know that I went through my first set of rears rather quickly on my VW ID3.

A few weeks ago, on my brand new 2023 base model I swapped out my stock Dunlops for the Continental DWS06 Plus A/S tires and have been miserable since. Yes the Continentals did their job on a recent ski trip where the roads were a mix of ice, wet and snow, but on dry roads I feel like the car handling has diminished significantly (sidewall flex) and just don’t enjoy driving it in a spirited way now. The Dunlops are a bit of a harsher ride and nosier but I’ll take that anyway over these Continentals in conditions without ice or snow.

Needless to say the stock Dunlop were showing wire after 12000 miles

These are the worst tires I’ve ever had on a sports car by far.

Horrible. 7500 miles on the OEM tires. Replaced them with Cross Climate 2’s.