Firestone WinterForce vs Vredestein Quatrac — Compared

“Vredestein Quatrac Pro+ shoulders ‘chunking up’ already Earlier this year (around February) I got a brand new full set of Quatrac Pro+ tyres for my BMW 325i. Since then the car has done around 3,500 miles. I’ve just had all the wheels off whilst doing some work on the car and the front tyres are chunking up on both shoulders, the rears are fine. (Pictures of front right attached, but they both look like this). It’s a RWD car, the pressures are as per factory, the car isn’t driven hard at all, the tracking is fine, I’m in the UK (so no extreme temperatures). Surely this can’t be right? Read more”

“Vredestein quatrac pro+ I had a tire issue while I was on a trip about a month and a half ago. I was able to plug it, but once the cold weather started, so did the slow leak—and it only continued to get worse. I took it in for service and found out I needed a new tire. The great news was that the tire was still under warranty, so one tire was completely covered. I figured I’d probably have to replace at least two tires, but they had a promotion going on: buy 3 tires, get the 4th tire free. So, with the warranty covering one tire and the buy-3-get-1-free promotion covering another, I only had to pay for two of the four tires. Since I only have about 14,000 miles on the vehicle, I wasn’t necessarily planning on replacing all four this soon, but with the deal, I decided to just pull the trigger and replace all four. I didn’t have a ton of time to research the tires beforehand, but based on what little research I was able to do, these appear to be a better option than the OEM tires. Now we’ll see how they hold up in the snow. Living in the Northeast, that’s going to be the real test! ❄️ If anyone has experience please let me know. I did take this into my dealership.”

“You won't find a true performance type tyre at 185/70 as it's just not a profile which is normally associated with performance cars. But as has been said elsewhere it is still the best profile for a fast road set up on a 105. I'd also support vredestein too, I use quatracs which are hybrid tyre designed as a compromise between a snow and a winter, they work well all year round. Vred also do a more summer biased tyre now which wasn't available at 185/70 until fairly recently I expect they would be my choice now. Edit, just checked they are called spotrtrac5 Not sure about vred classics being used in classic rallying, most people I know use either snowtrac3 or quatracs tout of a vreds range, though the rules changed at the start of last year which allowed 65 profiles to be used which had opened up more choice.”