Tires YOKOHAMA or NANKANG

Have a pajero. I just put Yokohama Geolander HT and they are quite nice. Not very loud. Good grip and decent tread pattern to perform offroad as well.

Im using Yokohama Geolander A/T 015 rightnnow and they're pretty good at taking small bumps, providing a good ride and maintaining bettee than average grip at turning. Was a good ride.

Road noise isn't bad.

My buddy has P Zero Winter on his S4

and he likes them. I have Yokohama BluEarth Winter V905 and they are nice but the sidewall is not as stiff as the Pirellis. Still happy with them though.

I always used Yokohama, but that was on a dodge Dakota. I love Yokohama tires personally

This doesn't apply to you, as you're in California, but my winter tires are Yokohama and they're the best winter tires I've ever had. I've had Michelin, Pirelli, Bridgestone.

Yokohama are best high quality for the $. They cost less than Michelin, continental, etc but perform just as well, imo.

Yokohama is your best bang for the buck on the list. You are never going to be mad about going with the Michelins though.

So I got these nankang AR-1 and never run them before. They talk about a break in, a certain amount of heating, the off the car for a full day.

My buddy has them on the rears of his FBO 335i right now. They're not terrible for basic to spirited street driving. They can't handle any power at all though.

I whole-heartedly un endorse the Yokohama YK580 that Discount Tire sells exclusively. As I said earlier in the thread 2.5 years ago, I put them on both my vehicles and I loved them at first. They drove great and were quiet. But I got nowhere near the 60k warranty on our Passat or Rout. Only got about 30k on the Rout.