[Beav]

I had the Dunlop Asymmetrical (5000, I think), they were good in water but potholes destroyed them. I now have Avon M550 A/S and they are very good wet and dry and are pretty quiet. They roar like crazy on the macadam roads of the south (what tire doesn't?) but on recently paved roads they are dead silent. It was odd that when I first put them on they seemed sluggish but that disappeared after a few weeks. I can corner as hard as I want and they don't make a peep, something many tires don't seem able to duplicate. I bought them around the first of the year and they aren't showing any signs of edge wearing, something that was troublesome for me with both the Bridgestones and Dunlops. Trust me, it was more a driving style issue rather than an alignment issue. It just seems the Avons are dealing with that where the others didn't. I had bought the asymmetricals because I thought the closed shoulders would wear better but they didn't.