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I bought my 01 SE a few weeks ago and one tire is bald on the outer edge and one has choppy inner edge like a bad shock does a tire. The 2 good tires have lots of tread left but the walls or dry rotting. The date on the tires says 2006. Its a set of Sumitomo's. So I started to look around for some mid grade tires. All my driving consists of a 1 mile trip to work. Kids to and from school, all within 3 miles from home and the occasional trip on the interstate.
After all that searching I went back to my local guy who is a Cooper distributor and he sells to the public. I have never found anyone to beat his price. Plus Cooper is offering a $50 mail in rebate if you buy all 4 tires.
I ended up with Cooper CS4 touring T rated. Which is has an 80,000 mile potential.
They were only 97 bucks per tire before taxes and the last time I bought Coopers the $50 visa came within 4-5 weeks as promised. I am waiting on my wife to get home now b/c I left the outer tierod ends in her van. Then tomorrow morning I have an appointment to have the tires mounted. balanced and get a fresh alignment! Cant wait to try out the new tires!

My next job for the Bonne will be to replace the I.S.S. b/c that is driving me insane!

Was hoping for PICS

lol. i will have pics day after tomorrow. after i get them on i have to drive to work. so ill def have some pics.

The CS4 is a good tire, you should be happy with it.

Walmart has Goodyear tires made just for them that are extremely price competitive. They have the Goodyear name on them with a line name I've never heard of before. Like $86 for a 215/50 R x 17 W 45,000 mile (ha ha) tire. - BC

Just remember, you get what you pay for. I've never had good luck with Goodyear's anyways, so I'm gonna avoid them for sure....

Just got the Bonne back. The alignment shop said they couldnt find any issues. I installed the new Moog outer tie rod ends last night. The Cooper tires run very quiet. I got to 65 mph for a few seconds but I had to slow down quickly b/c it was a 45 mph zone. The pics are from my phone so they prolly aren't great and the rims are still dirty.

P.S. Even though the ride was great it was ultimately ruined by the I.S.S. I just cant get my mind off of the symptoms the bad ISS causes but, at least once I replace the ISS Ill have a great set of tires and a quiet ride.

I've been curious about the Cooper touring tire. I'd like to know how they work out. I usually buy Goodyear and have been very happy with them, much more so than Michelin. I do say though that Michelin has by far the best customer service. They put the car manufactures to shame. - BC

I went through a set and a half of Cooper Cobras on my 94 SE. I liked them, they were flashy with the white raised lettering and I was giddy to see them on a Mustang in a hot rod mag! I went through the first set of fronts faster than the rears by sporting my mods. IDK how good they were really. I am not to experienced with different tires. I paid $90-$100 ea. I've got Goodyear assurances on my 01 SSEi now. They seem good but I am just now becoming comfortable enough with Betty to push the tires.

I have the Goodyear Triple Tread Assurances and love them. they are a little noisy at times, but in the rain and snow they are the best I have ever had. I have 15k on them and they still run good. They were expensive for a set, but wow. only tires I had that were better were the Michelins that came on my trailblazer I used to have 5 years ago.

I used to have dunlop radial rovers on that thing and the rear end was ALL over the place when it rained.

Goodyear also has a line called Republic, it is one of the older GY lines that they shipped over to China. for my 20 year old convertible that gets 5k/year max they work out fine and a set was like 250 bucks 3 years ago.

I had a set of GY Assurance TripleTreds, and they were fine till I got 20k on them, after that they got super loud and started shaking the car. I got another 5k out of the tread life and ditched them for my Yokohama Avid ENVigors. It was amazing driving my car with no shake and no tire noise when I pulled out of Discount Tire's lot. It was a totally different car...

I've had good luck with Hankook Ventus series... My dad has the v12s on his camaro and I had the v4 (i think) on the gtp I used to have. They have been a good, quiet, and smooth ride for us. I currently have Michelin Primacy xv4s on my bonne. These tires have definitely shown they're worth the 180 dollars a piece. They've been on the car since 07 and they still have about 25-30 percent tread left and they are still quiet as could be. They are just now starting to get a little dry cracking on the sidewalls but they all still hold 30psi just fine!

1oldman wrote:I've been curious about the Cooper touring tire. I'd like to know how they work out. I usually buy Goodyear and have been very happy with them, much more so than Michelin. I do say though that Michelin has by far the best customer service. They put the car manufactures to shame. - BC

Ive been buying Coopers for years. Being able to buy them straight from the wholesaler was the initial reason I started buying them along with people I knew talking about the quality.

I put a set of Cooper Discovery H/T on a 96 Ford Explorer that I owned. Those tires worked wonderful and they had great tread when I sold it.
My dad put Cooper Classic II on his 94 f150, they had a good life. He does alot of driving and hauling stuff. A few months ago he needed to replace his tires and Cooper discontinued the "Classics." So we put a set of Cooper SRM II Radial LT.

I put a set of Cooper Lifeliner GLS on my moms 2001 Lincoln Continental. Its been a pretty good tire. Quiet, good handling, good treadwear. They have a little life left on them but, when its time to replace them she will be getting the Cooper CS4.

I took my Bonneville out today and did alot of sudden lane changes and these CS4's just hugged the road. I took her down a curvy country road I like to take my cars down to test them out b/c its hardly any traffic and no houses. The Bonneville hung in the curves great at 65mph. She did not do that well last week when I had the other tires. I cant even remember what they were.
Now I know my car isnt an SSEI and it probably wasnt built to drive like I did but it done great!

Did you get an alignment after you changed the outters?

Well I guess didn't. I went to discount in Salem and they told me they needed to order special "cam bolts" to do the alignment. The shop I had do it before never said a thing about needing bolts. I lived in Portland so I went home and never had it aligned.

OOBeast it's interesting about the the assurances causing vibrations. It seems like I'm chasing down wobbles and vibes all day