Just wanted to pass along my tire history

[mr.weatherman]

I bought my 2007 cx-7 in june 2006 and it came with the lousy turanzas that were pretty shot by 20-25k, but I stuck with them until like 35K.

I replaced them with pirelli scorpion zero tires and I'm at about 79,500 miles on my car and the tires are still running strong. 2 of them are showing more wear that the other 2, but still have some life in them. So, that is about of 45K on my tires. I will say they have done an admirable job, I'm in Boston & they did great in the snow for the last 2 winters. My only problem is road noise, once they got like 25K on them it started getting a bit loud but hasn't gone up too much since.

I could get more life out of them but worried about snow grip this winter, so I just bought 4 Yokohama Parada Spec-X on tire rack. I'm having them delivered to the mazda dealer and they will install.

The only reason I did not go with the pirelli's again which treated me great was the price. The pirelli's are $182 and the yokohamas are $139. I hope I did the right thing.

Anyway, my 2 cents.

[JGreen215]

I put Kumho's on mine to replace the Turanza garbage tires. Paid $120/each.

[mr.weatherman]

I'm at 99, 400 miles now and the Yokohama Parada Spec-X are REALLY loud (at highway speed). I started noticing road noise at about 93-94K. Otherwise, they have done well these 2 past winters in New England.

[ForesterES]

I've got about 40K on a set of Continental CrossContact UHP, in 255/55/18. They're great tires, and other than the fact that I skipped a couple of rotations, they wear very nicely.

I'm looking at either another set of the Contis or going with General Grabber UHPs.

[mr.weatherman]

Turns out the loud noise is not the tires but bad rear wheel bearings, the mazda dealer quoted me $705 to replace while I was there getting an oil change. I called the guy back (it's been about 3 weeks) and he quoted me $958! I'm going to another mazda dealer tomorrow morning to get another estimate. My dad said we can replace it ourselves, they are 200 bucks each at the parts dept. @ mazda so $400 bucks. Any special tools needed?