Best Tires for the Chevrolet Orlando

Very good all-round 4 season tires. Bought two of them initially and got fuel consumption down by about 1 l/100km. Only downside is during wet asphalt in the summer when leaving from the spot with a kick sometimes they slip. One tire got a bit chunked on the edge but I drive over the tram line with little care and engage going over the curb every time I park because the parking spot is of such nature. I hit on wheel on the curb and even if the die of the tire peeled because of the impact and the rim got distorted it still held air very well for a couple of months. I kept that tire for the spare wheel.

I've been thoroughly impressed with this tire. Between road noise being nearly silent, feedback! and overall grip in dry, wet and snow. I would consider myself a spirited driver. I live in the greater London area and 99% of the roads are paved. I have driven in light snow up and down the country in wet and this has left me with nothing but confidence in these tires. Hydro/Aquaplaning is a thing of the past with these. Have never experienced it on the motorway even going thru standing water. These are on my 2011 Chevrolet Orlando 7 seater with independent front suspension and solid rear axle. We are a family of 6 and the car is often times fully loaded up whether with family and roofbox mounted or hauling to the tip. I have them rotated in an X formation once a year. Most of the driving I do is school run and local driving. The majority of longer drives are 1hr round trip. I've managed to get 38000 miles out of these tires and I strongly believe they're probably good for another 10k. I haven't measured them but there is very little signs of wear (see pic attached). Considering I have electric steering on the vehicle, the feedback I get from these tires are phenomenal. I have driven BMWs most of my life and it comes really really close. The only detriment would be in fuel consumption. Before the tires (on very worn Cooper Zeons), I'd get about 32mpg on average. With these and they've been consistent from new to now, around 29.6mpg on average.

I have driven around 10k km on these tires and I have mixed feelings. GOOD: - very good dry grip - tires are really quiet - decent handling and road feedback - perfect price BAD: - average wear - everything gets worse when it starts raining, tires have absolutely no grip o wet! (compare to other tires I had like Dunlop Bluresponse or even very average Bridgestone Turanza ER300) - surprisingly when it rains more they have good aquaplaning resistance NOTE: - based on size they can be made in Slovakia, France, Germany etc. I have feeling that those from Western Europe are different, my parents in law have 205/55/16 from Germany and when you touch the rubber it feels different

These are definitely the worst tires I have ever had. My original tires were Kumho and they were ok but are not available in Ecuador in this size. Generally, there is very limited variety here in this format.
So, I went for Kenda. From first impression, the tire was bad. The car is very sloppy, the side wall of the Kenda seems to be extremely soft. The car drives as is the shock absorbers are worn out. The car has 20.000 km, so that is not the case, also it was driving fine before the tire swap.
On dry road it's ok but as soon as the road is a bit moist, it is really dangerous. Ecuador mainly has country roads with a lot of turns, up and downhill. This morning I was on a fast section downhill were there was a little bit of water running over the road in a bend. I almost spun the car. It was so scary. I have driven a lot of cars and tires and have to say that these tires are useless, unless you are only driving low speeds in the city.

Second set in a row I have purchased on the front of my Front wheel drive 7 seater. I again bought the XL tires as they ride speed ramps a lot smoother and of coarse the added safety of being Reinforced and were a similar price to the non XL version .Very responsive but you would expect from new tires ,but a very comfortable tire all round and with a good wet rating. I got around a years driving on the front set which is about 14,000 miles after changing before they were down to the minimum with possibly around 3 times that distance on the rear set . My rear tires are still running the original Mich Prim HP's it came with , the car is 4 years old and done 42000 odd miles.I purchased online cheaper with an online tire seller who sends them to a local fitters for fitting. I found there was a good quality to price to safety ratio so bought again.

Good Grip in wet while pushing car on the straight and round roundabouts as expect with a premium tire. Wear very well ... I recently choose the 'B' wet and 'C' rated fuel efficiency/ rolling residence over the newer 'A' Wet , 'B' fuel and I found the newer formula Tires do not last as long?