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Would telluride Lx tires be okay to purchase for a telluride S? What’s the difference?
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Tires are tires. I suppose there might be the rarest of rare cases where a specific tire matched to a particular car but I don't recall one. The only matching necessary is the physical size of the tire vs the wheel well, looking for interference. This is a worry only if looking at a tire that is a radically different size than OEM.
My first step when putting tires on my new tellie (sometime in the future) will be to select a tire with a diameter that corrects its speedometer error, which seems to be about 1.5% right now. (Indicated 70mph is actual 69 mph.) So I will look for a tire with about a 1.5% larger diameter.
Second step is tire characteristics. Upstate New York, maybe a dedicated winter snow tire. Arizona? Not so much. I have recently seen the MichelinCrossClimate2 (CrossClimate 2 | Michelin) which appears to have excellent drainage for driving in the wet and should be good in snow as well. That, and similar tread styles, are ones I'll look at as I believe that street cars are nearest to the edge of adhesion when run in the rain. Others may want very high performance summer tires for autocross competition or all-weather tires that are designed to be run year-round or a knobby off-road design. Yet others may want to compromise on performance in order to get a harder, longer-lived, tread rubber compound.
I have had many good experiences with Discount Tire, so that is where (besides the internet) I would go with questions.
My first step when putting tires on my new tellie (sometime in the future) will be to select a tire with a diameter that corrects its speedometer error, which seems to be about 1.5% right now. (Indicated 70mph is actual 69 mph.) So I will look for a tire with about a 1.5% larger diameter.
Second step is tire characteristics. Upstate New York, maybe a dedicated winter snow tire. Arizona? Not so much. I have recently seen the MichelinCrossClimate2 (CrossClimate 2 | Michelin) which appears to have excellent drainage for driving in the wet and should be good in snow as well. That, and similar tread styles, are ones I'll look at as I believe that street cars are nearest to the edge of adhesion when run in the rain. Others may want very high performance summer tires for autocross competition or all-weather tires that are designed to be run year-round or a knobby off-road design. Yet others may want to compromise on performance in order to get a harder, longer-lived, tread rubber compound.
I have had many good experiences with Discount Tire, so that is where (besides the internet) I would go with questions.
