Tires MICHELIN or FEDERAL

I went with 225/40R18 Michelin Pilot Alpin PA4 on 18x8 BBS SR. Even these are pretty wide if you're doing a lot of snow driving, but I'm almost always on asphalt so I wanted dry traction and braking too.

Ran Michelin Pilot Alpin PA4 on my Audi, amazing tire if you HAVE TO have 19s

Going from my pilot super sports to a set of alpine pa4 snow tires on my FoRS was a pretty noticable change... Turns out sticky summer tires don't really grip on any amount of snow or black ice, and proper winter tires really really grip on snow and ice.

Putting Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires on the Mustang, costs an arm and leg for 19" wheels but I understand the hype now. The grip is phenomenal and the wet weather handling is so much more confidence inspiring vs the Indy 500 tires, which were good tires to begin with imo.

Went from some random all seasons that the prior owner had, to Michelin Pilot Super Sports. Now I have the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S.

I don’t own a Tesla (yet) but I am huge fan of the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S on my Audi S3. I run them year round on Florida and have virtually unlimited grip in dry and rain. Great tires. Should last about 30k miles.

Anecdotal but I originally had the 18" aero wheels on my Model 3 and installed 19" Michelin Pilot Sport 4S and wow what a difference on the curvy roads. It grips the road like glue. Lot of fun.

I’ve had the cross climates on my LR AWD model 3 for a month now. Here are some comments on them (with no winter testing obv) now that I’ve had them 900 miles. I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

- Sound: they are definitely louder than stock 18” at low speeds (<35 mph). Seriously they sound like all terrains with windows down, but no complaints at higher speeds. Given how bad the stock Michelin’s are in the winter; I won’t complain!

- ride: yea they’re comfy :)

- handling: They feel good around town but I haven’t pushed them yet. Wet performance was great, the car felt steady as a rock in downpour rain.

Efficiency: this is hard to get an ideas of just yet. Average since tire install is 248 Wh/mi since install. I went on a mini Colorado road trip he first weekend I had them. The car was getting worse efficiency than predicted (used about 5% more than predicted), but it was also 90 degrees out with my mom and my Airedale Terrier that isn’t happy unless the a/c is set to 65 or below. I don’t have the data to really make a fair comparison.

Summary: worth getting if you’re in a mixed climate that gets some snow and you can put up with a little more noise and a little less efficiency.

I now have 18" wheels and tires to replace the base car's 17" and that was all that was needed, good Michelins as well.

I just run cheap studded federal himalaya ws2 (235/45/16) on 9x18 wheels. But im dealing with ice not snow.