tires for a 4kq?

[edkellock at juno.com]

D60A2's are decent tires, but there are better to be had.
SP5000's are newer, a little more money, and sure to be
better.  I have a set on the V8 so I can report later (when
it snows).  

Ed
Woodland Park, CO

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:19:53 -0400 Grant Lenahan <gfl at erols.com> writes:
> I third this.  I got stuck in last winters one and only blizzard,
driving 
> to Vermont (to ski) with 205/50-15 D60A2s.
> 
> Hardly snow tires, but they surprised me in their lack of suckiness. 
They 
> are M&S rated, and have a fairly open tread block.  I'll also repeat,
these 
> were 205/50 tires on a 90q20v - great big, wide skis in effect.
> 
> Regrettably, at least 2 or 3 of these tires are out of round, and tire 
> rack/dunlop have been unresponsive so far.
> 
> Grant
> 
> At 11:59 AM 9/12/00 -0500, Todd Young wrote:
> >I'll have to agree with Mark on this one. I've had D60A2 tires on my
car for
> >over two years now, and that includes two Minnesota winters. Haven't
been
> >stuck yet. That even includes driving down a non-plowed section of the
street
> >I live on with about 4-6 inches of snow still down.
> >
> >"Mark L. Chang" wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Orin Eman wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Can't go wrong with Dunlop D60A2's.  A great tire for the
money.
> > > > >
> > > > As long as you don't plan on driving in the snow...
> > >
> > > Beg to differ. They weren't too shabby on my wife's FWD Neon. In
fact, she
> > > commented on their "grippiness" many times to me. Then again, the
last set
> > > of tires were the OEM Goodyear Eagls GS-A's or something like that.
AWFUL
> > > tires.
> > >
> > > But I drove 'em and thought they were pretty darned good.
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