My 525i is currently happily wearing its snow tires and will be for the next couple months, but after that I'm going to need to get some new three-season tires in 235/45-17. The car is my daily driver - commuting and general use, no motorsports activity. I've had fairly high performance tires on it through the last two iterations (Yokohama AVID ENVigor currently, some Sumitomo HTR variant previously), but I'm beginning to get annoyed with how frequently they've required replacement. What I'd like is something that's quiet, comfortable, reasonably long-wearing, and not soul-crushingly awful to corner on (it may be a DD, but there are plenty of twisty roads and interesting on-ramps around here). Winter performance doesn't matter, as I run dedicated snows. Cheap is always a bonus. Suggestions?
This is a performance category we call "black and round" 
The Yokohama S.drive may be to your liking.
The s drives should be good.
I always recommend the Riken Raptors as well. I have them on my Passat and have had very good luck so far.
Yokohama s drive, continental dw, General Altimax hp.. three that I like.
Sounds like you want a continental DW or DWS. Both pretty inexpensive. $117 a tire right now for the DW at Tirerack.
DanyloS
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1/21/15 3:57 p.m.
Have had two sets of Goodyear Eagle GT's on an STi seems to get 35k-40k of wear and works as a 3 season tire (works in snow too, but as the OP mentioned he has dedicated winter tires)
So which of these possibilities is likely to get me somewhere around 40k miles of use before they're shot? I've only managed ~25k at best on previous sets (suspension is recent and alignment is correct).
bmw88rider wrote:
Sounds like you want a continental DW or DWS. Both pretty inexpensive. $117 a tire right now for the DW at Tirerack.
I will second these. I had a set of DWSs on my car and got about 45K out of them and they were quiet to the end to boot.
