Any recommendations on the best tires to put on a XJR575?

I would prefer the least amount of road noise as possible but it's not a deal breaker for the right tires. City street and freeway driving. No racing.

 

Based on what I have read on this forum and elsewhere, and high performance summer only:

1. Michelin Pilot Sport 5S (but doesn't exist yet!)
2. Michelin Pilot Sport 5 (may be hard to find in the correct sizes)
3. Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
4. Continental Sport Contact 7 (also may be hard to find in the correct sizes).

So if you want new tyres in a hurry you can't go past the MPS4S or you can wait a while (a few months??) for the others in that list to become available.

 

Thank you. Will start my search now.

 

Any suggestions on “all season” tires?

 

...YUUUCK. What's with this impulse to always grab The Noisy Grippy Racy Summer Tire Winners, just because they claim to beat the other racers.... and we KNOW not all of us do racing. The author erven said he doesn't, LOL!

I don't race.

If you live and drive in scenic and almost never down to 40 degree climates, and you MUST have a summer tire (...ugh, those tires are such dainty prima-donnas), I would suggest you pick from only THREE models of summer perf tire. (Don't fool with any other summer tires unless you do track/competition driving, or have intense very specific street-handling needs from your car)

Continental Premium Contact-6,
Bridgestone Turanza Quiettrack, or
Bridgestone Turanza EE33 tires are what I call the smooth-end specialists from High Performance Summer tires. They are great for commuters who do a LOT of repeated short trips, or for folks who do long distance journeys, and offer good puncture-resistance. They are NOT for tracks or wild driving, (not like the top-rated summer perf tires) so they never get top praise for responsiveness but their treads will LAST LONGER. DON"T go for them if you have long snow drives to do. But apparently they are amazing when you have lots of hot long summer driving to do. They get reviewed as some of the quietest non-harsh riding UHP tires around, so it's worth checking them out. They also don't have aggressive-looking sidewall designs, which happens to be a personal gripe with me---I hate summer tires that try so hard to look immature racy when I try hard to keep a sharp, grown-up look to my performance car for driving my sweetie around.

Now, on the other hand:
If you live and drive in a climate that exposes your tires to below 50 F temps overnight, or give you 2 inches of snow, or if you live in what I call High-Drive country (sweet Pennsylvania highways, Tennessee hills, winding Colorado, Switzerland resort area, Spain and France coastline, Hungary, or my fav Ohio with its winding highways over old bridges and 5-mile long tunnels)... I would NOT recommend you waste your time on summer tires at all, not unless you have a brand you are REALLY familiar with and mated to. 40-50 degree climate, and touring on those gorgeous roads, would just make summer tire riding feel sore, shaky, and noisier than they need to be. PART of the pleasure of taking winding scenic roads, requires tires smooth and quiet enough for you to enjoy the wind, your engine, your songs playing. Right?

All Season Performance tires are a new thing, and give you lots of the "spirit+confidence" that you tend to want to feel from a stylish car. But they are LESS prissy or prima-donna than summer perf tires.
Vredstein Hypertrac is a tire I like reading about. I don't always feel their sidewall designs are flattering for elegant mature Jaguar sedans, but apart from that I love everything about their products, especially for install on earlier model cars and classic collector vehicle with those oddball tire sizes. Their uncomplicated looking tread patterns amazingly grab such fine reviews all the time. Their name is still so unknown today that they still cost so little compared with other competitors. Yet they almost never get bad reviews about safety in snow or wet. Nearly everything you want an all-year tire to be, plus some spirit.
Continental ExtremeContact DWS-06 Plus is more expensive than Vredstien ever would be, but those German tires have proven really reliable and stable here on Northern US climates. I usually like everything about Continental except their lack of strength in slippery light snow---yet people have been saying this new DWS-06 Plus is VERY good in light snow, so the company must have finally got the snow right. Continental also tends to give a really fun sports feel from an all-season tire. Their all-season tires tend to have good weight of 24 lbs on R18, which feels calm and relaxed on a medium sedan, not finicky and thumpy like a sports tire. I don't like the way the tread grooves look around the edge of the sidewalls (kind of like folds in an apple-pie crust. But apart from that tiny peeve, Continental's sidewall design is very conservative (more conservative than Vredstein's) and grownup, so to me they are perfect for earlier model Jags like X-types, and long streamlined bodies like XJ's.

 

...Wow, don't bother with the Bridgestone EE33's. I think they have been discontinued since I last found them around.

 

Thank you...looking into the Bridgestones now

 

@OzXFR @NewLester de Rocin
After doing some research, I'm leaning towards the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S.

 

There's no wonder why.

But tell me for our mystery survey, what di you like about the XJ's feel when you first bought it (assuming it came with the OEM tires from Jaguar)?

 

It came with Pirelli's but I refused to spend that kind of money on tires with just so-so reviews.

 

Yep, nearly all F-Types came/come from the factory with Pirelli P-Zero tyres and nearly all F-Type owners me included rate them as absolute rubbish - poor grip in the dry and almost zero grip in the wet.
When I swapped out the half worn P-Zeros on my F-Type for new MPS4S the difference was night and day both dry and wet.
And NewLester De Rocin, don't knock them until you've tried them, the MPS4S ride plenty OK and are no noisier than most.
Yes they are summer tyres and not meant for winter or snow but they still handle cold wet roads quite well, it's only when it gets really cold and/or snowy that there are better choices.

 

I agree that the OE Pirelli P-Zero Nero tires aren't very good. However, I really like their upgraded P-Zero All-Season Plus tires on my car. The tread patterns are completely different, and the newer AS+ model probably has some internal improvements as well.
As Tire Rack noted, they are extremely quiet and provide a great ride, while still exhibiting very good performance numbers. Four years ago, they were also significantly less expensive than the Michelins. I've experienced even 2-3/32" wear in 15k miles. They do "tramp" after sitting for a week in cold weather, but warm up pretty quickly. Have not driven them in snow, but their wet performance is completely satisfactory to me.

 

My strongest recommendation would be the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500. They are AMAZING, no matter how you drive. When I purchased my vehicle, the previous owner had basically just put them on there. I’ve covered more than 18,000 miles on these tires and as of this week, they have approximately half of their life left. I do plenty of spirited driving, but the vast majority of the miles are me driving as smooth as silk. I never burnout and I’ve rarely had to brake hard. In any case, the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 is an incredible tire.

 

Very informative! I have 20,000 miles on my 2019 XJL, one of the last to be made; it's time for new tires. All of you have gotten my interest. You might ask, "Why, with only 20,000 miles?" It seems that
my Santorini Black leaper is a magnet for construction debris. Three years in a new development and 4 instances of repair. One tire replaced under a warranty agreement and the others, patched. I think it's time!
Now my question is, where have you all shopped? I've given a lot of business to COSTCO in the past, but I believe they will not install tires that aren't specified as original equipment. My next option is Tire Kingdom, a lot more expensive than Costco, especially with warranties and such.

 

Please DO NOT use Costco for tires!!!
Discount Tire as well as Tire Rack both price match and they only sell tires.
I don't buy tires from a grocery store!
Go to the experts on tires.
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You must have had a terrible experience with a tire purchase at COSTCO. I would be interested in what happened so that I can make the right decision.

THANX

 

Again DON'T buy tires from places that sell bread and groceries!
Buy from people who are experts in tires.
Discount Tire sells tires. Costco sells groceries and hearing aids.
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I recently put 4 tires on my wife's F-Pace....at COSTCO. I was more than happy with the service they provided and, with the added bonus, that I could buy my groceries while they fitted tires. Saved a bunch of time!

wombat

 

Thanks, Wombat. I'm still waiting for a response from Mr. Clubairth1; hoping to find out why buying from COSTCO is such a bad thing. I can't take his advice without some facts to go with it.

 

King Fala,

Just because I'm bored, I checked the Costco tire center customer satisfaction rating....It's 91/100, which is exactly the same as TireRack and 1 better the Discount Tires! The best rating was Les Schwab at 92/100.

I didn't know that Discount Tires own TireRack!

wombat