Anyone had negative experience with upsizing from OE size 235/45-17 to 245/45-17 ?
Yal, Turanza does not have size 245/45-17, if I upsizing to 245/45 it will be out of the list. Also, an owner of '88 560SL hates the tire for too much noise according to TR reviews for Turanza. I agreed with you about uni-directional designs, they're looked and performed very good for first half of the tread life, but the last half is not the same, also they are limited in rotation. I am more interest in non-directional tires.
Chirag, NTB does not have any dealer in So Cal. I may try Sears to see if they carry Sumitomo and have treadlife warranty similar to NTB. This is my wife's daily car, the way she drives no tire will lasted more than 30k miles. That why I do not like paying too much for tires every 1.5 years to 2 years. The car has only 35k miles, this will be the third set of tires, the fourth set of front pads, second set of rear pads and second set of front rotors.
