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Continental Tires?

Are continental tires any good? They sell them at wal-Mart.for my truck they have goodyear and continental.

Answer:

Both are fine products and with proper care should give you good service.
Purchased a set to replace the factory tires at 44,000 miles on 2013 F150. Have put a little over 2000 miles on them. Same exact size as factory, LX20 with eco-plus. There was an immediate 10-12 per cent drop in fuel mileage and has increased to 15+ per cent drop. Other than that they are fine, but I will not buy any more. For my truck that is roughly 70-80 miles less per tank. So for every approx. 3000 miles I will have 1 extra fill-up at about $100 dollars where I live. At about 40,000 miles per year that is an extra 1300.00. Bout what a set of Premium tires costs.
If you plan to use the tires in anything resembling snow or winter conditions the Goodyear Eagle GT is truly awful - one of the worst UHP all-season tires I have ever tried - while the DWS is in a class of its own under such circumstances. The Continental is IMHO the only UHP All-Season tire that can actually be called an all-season tire with a straight face. If you live someplace that does not have winter type driving conditions, why look at all-season tires at all? An all-season tire is just a bad compromise that gives up a lot of dry and wet weather performance for some ability to drive in the winter.

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