Tires Pirelli or Continental

I love continental extreme winter contacts... had them on my old car. I had michelins in the past as well, and prefer the continentals

I had Pirelli snows last year and they worked great

I have a B7 V6 Passat Wagon here in Australia and they come with Continental ContiSportContact 5 and they are amazingly quiet, much better than the Pirelli P Zero's I had on my R36 Wagon.

+ get the continental DW, it has soft walls

By far the best tire I've ever ridden on. Just excellent all around.

The top rated tire in this class was a Pirelli P Zero Nero All Season tire.

I'm pretty happy with how things came out with the tires. We really haven't had any snow where I live to really try them out, but in the cold weather, even the dry traction is worlds better than the PZeros that came on the care---despite being an inch smaller and a good amount narrower (235 vs 255).

When I first had mine, I used to run 38psi all around but after a few thousand KMs I found them to ride too hard so I lowered mine to 36psi but was slightly better. But lately, i've been running them at 35psi all around and I find that this is the right balance for comfort and sportiness. I think 35-38psi is a good pressure. Anything higher seems to be over inflated in my opinion. These tires are far better than my experience with Falken's FK452s. Those tires were just noisy as they wore. I also found them to be stiffer on the widewalls in comparison to the conti's.

True dat. Contis ( ) + US spec ride height = GTI loses the armchair racer wars.

my conti-extreme got quite loud after they had worn a bit, although they were badly cupped.