Initial Impressions of Conti ExtremeContact DWS

[BRGcoopahS]

These are the tires I'm getting very soon after my friend highly recommending me them. Good to know others have owned these tires. They seem like they are one of the best all seasons for the winter.

[Tnhl1989]

My impression since I'm in the northeast. I had them on my XI and they were great in all weather. My only concern with them is the sidewall being so soft. I had a set and three months later I had bubbles all over each tire. They got replaced due to factory road hazard. A few weeks later one tire had a hole on the inner sidewall. Again replaced by manufacture road hazard. All work was done at town fair tire. They honored the road hazard after I showed it to them. I think if I were to get another set it would have to be stretch a little over the rim so the sidewall doesn't stick out so far.

[danewilson77]

Great tires, but definitely flat spotted for first few miles of my drive this morning.

Sent from my S4 > Mason, OH

[BRGcoopahS]

Flat spotted?

[ZHPRegistry.net]

Most high performance tires will flat-spot in the cold. It's just the way it is.

[Vas]

When I had dws, they got flat spots on them overnight. Went away after the tires warmed up.

I did like them because they were one of the best all season tired I had. But I prefer summer tires.

[HokieZHP]

Personally I had them and they were good tires. The Michelin pilot sport a/s I have now I feel are a lot better performance wise and in the snow.

[PirateZHP]

I just put these on the zetchpa, and I think they are great so far. Quiet, comfortable, but seem to have some good grip. Are they the best tires you can buy? No, but they are great tires for the price.

[Sockethead]

When we replaced the Michelins on the X5 with DWS, we noticed the soft sidewall as soon as we left the lot. We Had to replace 1 tire under warranty after hitting a nasty pothole.
Since installing a year ago, we've gotten used to the sidewalls

[Washburn]

DWS is a good tire - I am happy with them in most cases, but the amount of overnight flat spotting is atrocious.
And it happens even in warm weather, after sitting for a couple of days.
Then again, that is a side effect of having such good wet/light snow performance, probably.

How many miles (under normal daily driving conditions) would you guys say one should reasonably expect from a set of DWS (staggered)?

Although I like them, I am not 100% sure if I would buy again, due to the flat spotting; I was hoping the General G-Max was going to be a good AS UHP alternative, but it seems they're now being made in mexico and portugal and do not have the same quality as in the begnning when they came out. (Made in Germany at that time). I read somewhere, production was shifted to different countries due to poor demand...

If there's no decent alt. AS UHP/HP when time to change tires again come around, I'd still have to go with DWS but I am hoping we'll have a larger variety in this category in the OEM staggered sizes.