It was time to change my Falken Ziex 20" tires on my CX-9. I made it to 42,000 miles with them, no real problems. Been researching on what tires to replace them with and was debating getting the Falken's again or go a different tire. After doing extensive reading I went with the Continental ExtremeContact DWS06. The Mazda dealer in the area wants to keep customers from going down the street to other tire shops and gave me the tires for $235 a piece and $80.00 for alignment. I get lifetime rotation and 2 year road hazard included. These tires were $256 on TireRack and Sears had them for $243.00.
So far my experience with these tires with a under 50 miles is the ride is quieter but that could be that the Falken's were already wearing down. We have rain coming this weekend so I will be seeing how they handle under those conditions. No snow down here in Florida but they didn't have the DW's available but I will be ready if it ever does snow here or we decide to have a road trip up north.
I will let you all know how the tires hold up as I put more miles on them.
I'll get pics up soon.
So far my experience with these tires with a under 50 miles is the ride is quieter but that could be that the Falken's were already wearing down. We have rain coming this weekend so I will be seeing how they handle under those conditions. No snow down here in Florida but they didn't have the DW's available but I will be ready if it ever does snow here or we decide to have a road trip up north.
I will let you all know how the tires hold up as I put more miles on them.
I'll get pics up soon.