I'm about to need new tires for my AWD CX-5. (ie P225/65/17)
I only care about 3 seasons because I use dedicated winter tires. (ie Nokian Hakkapaleta R2 SUV which are fantastic)
What are 2-3 of the best tires for a CX-5 based on 3 season performance, good handling, low noise and PNW rain? I'm just curious if there's anything better then the stock Yokohama Geolanders.
TIA
Don't take anything anybody says here with too much weight. It's all opinion and unique perspective, it's very subjective, and nothing is scientific. Your opinion of quiet or noisy, or "good handling" / "bad handling" will be different from other's opinion/perspective on these same traits.
The only source I go to for solid tire advice, is TireRack.com
https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testSearch.jsp
Given your question to look for the "
best", I'd first suggest looking at
Ultra-High Performance All-Season tire test comparisons.
After the sticker shock on the best here, you may be more flexible to the next lower catagories,
High Performance All-Season, and then
Grand Touring All-Season.
Then look at what actually comes in sizes for the truck and who your local tire shop will actually carry. Local tire shops, if you negotiate with them, frequently will match Tire Rack prices +shipping. Tire rack prices+shipping has always been a better prices than any local tire prices. The local tire shops
have always grudgingly accepted to match Tire Rack in my frequent cases of buying tires for a sports car and sedans in California shops and sedans and trucks in Connecticut shops.
You are making a grandiose claim, with no scientific backing, using your own limited experience that is nowhere near enough to come to conclusion you have, making claims that contradict official testings, and refuse to listen to common sense that tire manufactures do not tune their tires to specific car makes or models.
I'm done.
Agreed.
(except, only on the very rare occasion do tire manufactures build tires specific for a car. These cars are usually very expensive or very unique and the tires are corner specific. Examples would be the factory tires on the '93 Acura NSX, Bugatti Vehron. As expected, these unique tires are much more expensive than other tires of the same size. I also see the case with electric cars and hybrids. These tires are optimized for better gas milage than any traditional tires. What comes frome the factory when the car is built, is usually the best tire you can get in these cases, until some years down the road when competitor tire manufacturers come up with better rubber than OEM rubber.
The CX-5 is not a unique size tire and other car models have this size too. There will be nothing unique to the CX-5 design. I confidently predict there are ones better than OEM.)