What brand tires do you have on your Gen5?

I purchased 215/55/17 Michelin Pilot Sport 5 and Michelin X-Ice for my 2024. I wanted to get off the 19s, needed snow tires, and figured **** it: let’s try something crazy. Looking forward to seeing how it goes.

 

You won't be disappointed.

 

Haha. I’m curious to see how the car actually performs and drives on Pilot Sports. The YouTube video here really drove me to try it:

 

2024 XSE Premium-switched the stock wheels and tires with 17 stock rims (with the stock LE/SE Prime wheel covers) and Turanza 005 20560R17 tires (exact rolling radius/diameter as stock 19). Overall great improvement in HV only mileage. Still not like Gen4 Prius Prime but a lot closer.

Got 61.2 mpg on one tank (9.3 gallons fillable) but so far it has been an outlier (getting more like 55-57mpg overall in mixed freeway and smaller roads/stop-go driving but all HV only)

The car is still young we will see...

Checked w/ GPS on multiple trips of different routes-the trip meter is exact after the switch as it was before- (not sure who was posting on another thread or this one that the calibration on stock is off for the 19" and that the 17" is correct)

 

I have a set of Tesla Model 3 tires (Michelin Primary MXM4) and wheels (tires in very good condition) with aero covers and appropriate lug nuts that I bought as a switch experiment but don't know what to do with them now (now that these stock 17s with the 20560R17s are doing very well)

 

In my 2021 Prius Prime Limited, if set the DRCC to 57 mph on the freeway, I get 75–80 mpg on the display for the trip with no battery-SOC drop, which is 70–75 mpg for real.

 

Good vid and great to hear the improvement! We will order a set of Pilot Sports from 4Wheelonline for the next tire change and brake job.

 

Michelin Cross Climate 2 here

The oem EPP 422 Plus tires that come with the car don't feel great on some turns and I definitely don't trust them for persistent wet weather driving. Did some testing, hard turns on wet road at speed had the nice person feeling like it was losing some traction (oversteer).

Same speed and conditions with the cross climates and there was no oversteer feeling.

No notice in changes to road noise or mpg.

 

Why not keep them and run the experiment?

I didn't expect that. I had a prior experience with CrossClimates that was brief and a bit loud with greater rolling resistance than Dunlops. Of course "CrossClimate" is a trademark and the product can evolve. I see reviews now that note excellent durability.

 

There's also 2 versions of the CC2s. The H and V I believe. You want the one rated for 133mph as it's softer. I'm going off memory here so you'll have to google to be certain if you do shop them out. But that may be the reason why. The higher mph rated one apparently has some road noise and comfort issues.

 

Yes I might do that next spring as I got all M3 wheels+tires+covers for just over 700-real deal. The stock 17 rims+tires+covers were just over 1000. So good deals on both but they take up space and then you stare at them wondering what to do with them. Will keep them out of sight until next spring unless these Turanza t005 (summer tires as they are) begin giving me huge issues in winter (worst of it is still about 2-3 months away) Take my chances...

BTW just refilled today...56.1mpg average. Gen4 PP was getting me 62 (and that is over 18K miles as an average-really miss the data they showed on the Gen4 display-now we have a useless graph-am going to put my "we value your input" in before it expires on 11/14 to Toyota.

 

I bought after market 17" wheels with Conti all season extreme contact tires (225 55 17) to replace the 19" original Toyo tires. The performance improvement is amazing as I knew it would be. Why Toyota would put such dreadful tires on such an amazing car is beyond my understanding.

 

Hiya,

I've swapped original wheel/tires to Michelin X-Ice®SNOW 215/60R17 because of winter obviously.
And I'm going to be on Continental True Contact Tour 54 215/55R17 otherwise.

 

I don't know the brand, but I'd gladly trade my 19" tires for something with a smoother ride.
Still hurts my back sometimes.

 

I went

From a GTI Autobahn to the Prius Prime xse with upgraded wheels and tires. They're not very far apart and I love the Prius.

 

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This was a awesome video, pretty cool to see how it did with just better tires/wheels

 

I bought the Pirelli P Zero All Season Performance in 215-55-17 and had them mounted on the original wheels last fall. Very happy with the improvement in handling and ride comfort. Usually around $ 90 a piece at Amazon.
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