Tyres for Porsche Cayenne

[paulwalters]

I am looking at replacing the tyres on my 2016 Cayenne Diesel 3.0L which are currently Michelin Latitude Sport 3 - 265/50r 19. These have been on the car from new and have covered 32,000 miles. As I live in a rural area in North Wales I am thinking of fitting an "All Season" tyre as a compromise between summer and winter tyres. Can anyone please offer any advice or recommendations on "All Season” tyres for a Cayenne as I do not really wish to purchase both summer and winter tyres with rims.

 

[growly]

Hi Paul,
Great tyres you are on now, but not suitable for 10 months of the year! I am a former Met Office weather observer and it might surprise you the mean temperature on the ground where your tyres are in the mornings especially is 6.0 C or below, meaning that a compromise of "all-season" tyres, is just that. I have the same Cayenne living in South Bucks and we run it on winter tyres all year round. Yes, they are wrong in July & August, but right the rest of the year. In the heavy snow last December using the electronic diff lock the Cayenne drove like there was no snow using Michelin Latitude Alpin N1 tyres. Since then I've renewed a pair with the same but now Michelin Latitude Alpin LA2 N0, which are markedly better on a tyre that was already excellent. I change them every 2 years, about 20k plus miles but at 4mm to keep them good for snow & ice. With your mileage of 32k, I think you'd do better than 25k. Too low a mileage? - my reasoning is this - there is no damage you can do to a Porsche that will cost less than the price of a set of quality tyres, before the aggro of getting anything repaired is taken in account too. Once changed DO get the geo checked. You should be able to let go of the steering wheel and drive 30+ metres on a straight road without any steering input. If you are in snow (a skill taught to me by a former F1 driver) and fishtail, let go of the steering wheel (yes really!). Then the caster will instantly straighten the car. I tried this in the snow last year and it worked far better than you'd imagine.

I trust this helps. Perhaps let me know how you get on?

Kind regards,

Richard

 

[tiskev]

I am running on pirelli scorpion ice and snow all year round and they have
a very low wear rate however i dont thrash the car

 

[NeilBplymouth]

Running winters all year is all well and good but when they fail they fail badly and very quickly. Two years ago returning form the Alps at Easter time there was a mini heat wave, reached mid 20 centigrade, there were chunks missing from my winter pirelli's, with the steel mesh showing after 800Km mostly on autoroutes, lucky we didn't have a blow out.
Keep winters for the winter.

 

[Cars]

I changed mine to Pirelli Scorpion Verde all seasons.
They are not easy to get hold of ie special order, but well worth it in terms of grip, low noise, comfort and low tyre wear. We have used them in a very snowy Northumberland and a hot sunny Cornwall with no issues at all.

 

[s7dcb]

Have just had four new Pirelli Scorpion Verde All Seasons fitted. Porsche Centre Guildford quoted £310/tyre plus £399 for wheel alignment (total £1,639) - I paid £769 for 4 tyres at Merityre, Guildford (a "Pirelli Performance Centre") plus £84 for wheel alignment, saving £786 before taking account of the £100 pre-paid full card now on its way to me, courtesy of Pirelli/PCGB!

 

[wilkey]

I have a Macan with Michelin Latitude All Seasons which have served well, particularly when the Beast from the East showed up last year. I have done 32,000 and have 4.5mm tread left all round. Thoroughly recommended.