Tires Hankook or Goodyear

My best experiences have been with Hankook I-pike studless snows. I'd be willing to bet that they could hang with or out perform some of the pricier options listed here. They are great when roads are wet too.

Hankook Ice Pike's are the best all around snow tire that have used. Wear, road noise and dry handling were much better than Bridgestone's, and any of the others that I have tried over the years. No perceivable loss in snow traction on a TSX wagon under normal snow conditions.

Wears like iron, just like the R-S3, but doesn't need as much heat to work. I can leave the sprayer at home and just ignore them.

It'll be a huge leap over those junk Hankooks.

Get Hankooks or Firestones if you want to save a couple of bucks, while still having a great tire.

More: Goodyear Eagle Sport tires @ 60K. These are the best overall tires I've ever had. Put them on my Beetle too.

After lots of research I went for Hankook Ventus V12 Evo2 tyres and am very, very happy with them.

I have these on my JKU and they are OK. They do well on snow, but on wet roads they can break free pretty easily .

Vw has used crappy American Goodyear Eagle LS-2 back on the mk4 and b6 passat days. So crappy VW issues a TSB for abnormal wear rates.

Riding on Pirellis Cinturatos P7 now. IMO best tire for the Passat. The hankooks had no grip even in very light snow. Rain driving was scary, loud on highway. I couldn't risk driving my family with them.