03GolfTDI
Veteran Member
So my '12 CPO came with the Michelin Pilot Sport AS3+ that the prior owner put on prob ~1.5 years before they turned the car into VW. Tons of tread left but sitting in storage for 1.5 years did no favors to the tires. There is no visible cracking/dry rot and the tires look great (no browning, no weird tire chunking, etc.) but they seem to be hard as rocks and traction was incredibly poor when I bought the car. I figured let me get a wear layer off and see what happens, over ~2k miles including a lot of unintentional front wheel spinning the traction has only gone to maybe mediocre. It pains me to throw these tires away as they are 8/32's front and 9/32's rear and Michelins to boot.
So does anyone have any favorites for your 17" Porto alloys? Had it been any other situation I would have just blindly bought the same exact Michelins as I have a soft spot for Michelins and prefer them, but now dealing with these tires that could not handle 1.5 years of storage without turning into rocks I just don't know if I could justify it. The Pilot Sport AS3+ run ~$135/tire at Costco, the next step in the Michelin line is the Premier A/S at like $180/tire but I had a bad experience with those on my MB C300 where they were almost to the wear bars at 20k. Maybe time for me to take my Michelin blinders off.
So what tires have you had good luck with and can recommend?
So does anyone have any favorites for your 17" Porto alloys? Had it been any other situation I would have just blindly bought the same exact Michelins as I have a soft spot for Michelins and prefer them, but now dealing with these tires that could not handle 1.5 years of storage without turning into rocks I just don't know if I could justify it. The Pilot Sport AS3+ run ~$135/tire at Costco, the next step in the Michelin line is the Premier A/S at like $180/tire but I had a bad experience with those on my MB C300 where they were almost to the wear bars at 20k. Maybe time for me to take my Michelin blinders off.
So what tires have you had good luck with and can recommend?