Here at SimpleTire, our team has gone through the catalog and found the best Lexus LC500 tires, including all-season, all-season UHP, and winter tire choices. We then went through and used our SimpleScore system to arrive at numerical values for traction, handling, and longevity for each tire. Ready? Let’s go in for a closer look:
1. Bridgestone Alenza A/S Ultra: Best All-Season tire
The Bridgestone Alenza A/S Ultra is our first pick on this list, a jack-of-all-trades all-season tire that has long made a great impression on us for its year-round traction on dry, wet, or snowy roads. It’s a very capable tire that ranks highly for its low highway noise and refined ride quality, the kind you’d expect with a Grand Touring tire, along with delivering the value and long wear you’re looking for. The Alenza A/S Ultra is a fairly new entry in Bridgestone’s proven Alenza tire family, and Bridgestone engineered this tire with the goals of precise handling, year-round performance, and long, even tread wear. Bridgestone designed the Alenza A/S Ultra with an advanced silica-based tread compound that features enhanced grip in wet or wintry conditions, great wear properties as well as good heat dispersal, and low highway noise. On rain-covered pavement, the Alenza A/S Ultra’s asymmetric all-season tread pattern removes water from the tire’s contact patch with wide circumferential and angled grooves that help resist any tendency toward hydroplaning. If the snow starts accumulating, there’s Bridgestone’s Snow Vices, grooves that are designed to build safe, reliable traction by actually picking up and retaining snow to develop snow-to-snow friction. A dense pattern of sipes adds hundreds of extra biting edges to multiply traction through snow and slush. You’ll love the cathedral-quiet ride of the Alenza A/S Ultra; Bridgestone’s Quiet Track technology package reduces pattern noise and negates certain frequencies for a ride that’s hushed and smooth. Internally, the Alenza A/S Ultra includes a polyester casing held together with two steel belts and a spiral-wound nylon cap layer, delivering the reassuring, dead-solid road feel, long wear, and durability you're looking for. Bridgestone is confident enough to cover the Alenza A/S Ultra with an 80,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life.
2. Continental ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus: Best UHP All-Season tire
Continental’s engineers wanted a tire that needed no tradeoffs or compromises when they designed the ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus – a tire that can offer year-round performance with UHP levels of overall handing, cornering, braking, and steering response. That’s all, of course, along with the kind of dependable grip that you can count on to safely get through all kinds of weather conditions. The Continental ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus offers even more value when you remember that most UHP and summer tires have to be swapped for all-season tires in colder weather since their softer, stickier tread formulation will stiffen up and lose traction below 40-45 degrees F. Continental took the proven design of the ExtremeContact DWS06 and updated it in just about every area, starting with the Sport+ Tech package that delivers enthusiastic performance and cornering ability. Reinforced 2-ply sidewalls and macroblocks in the tread are designed for handling that’s immediate and confident for an outstanding SimpleScore of 9.9 in that category. Year-round grip gets a boost with a silica-enriched tread compound for long wear and great wet-weather traction. Circumferential grooves, sweeping lateral grooves, and X-sipes give the ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus an edge for rainy or light wintry conditions for a traction score of 9.8. The Continental ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus is covered by a 60,000 mile warranty (unlike most UHP tires), for a SimpleScore of 9.2 in the longevity department.
3. Pirelli Scorpion Winter: Best Winter tire
When a winter storm blows in and the snow starts piling up on the roads, we’re going with the Pirelli Scorpion Winter. Pirelli designed this purpose-built winter tire with a low-temperature tread compound that’s designed to stay flexible in subfreezing weather for traction (think about the performance of a hockey puck on ice vs a pliable rubber boot sole). That tread compound is molded into an aggressive directional tread pattern with dense 3D sipes, chamfered groove edges, and V-shaped grooves that work as a system for confident grip and control in snow and slush for a traction score of 9.8. This is no sluggish, clumsy winter tire: that system of tread elements also is designed for driver feedback, cornering, braking performance, and steering response that are more at the level you’d expect from a performance tire, and boasts a handling score of 9.8. The Scorpion Winter does lose some points in SimpleScore rankings when it comes to durability – dedicated winter tires and their softer, more pliable low-temperature tread compound aren’t designed for warmer weather and will wear prematurely on days when temperatures are above 40-45 degrees F. That being said, the Scorpion Winter 2 still sports a great longevity score of 8.0.
While these are the best Lexus LC500 tires on the market, there are plenty of other options to consider:
4. Falken Azenis FK460 A/S: Great UHP All-Season tire
Here at SimpleTire, for some time now our team has been pretty impressed with just about everything in Falken, and the Azenis FK460 A/S is no exception. The Falken Azenis FK460 A/S is designed with Falken’s advanced 4D Nano tread compound for long wear and consistent grip in all kinds of weather. While most tires lose traction over time, the innovative Emerging Grooves tech of the Azenis FK460 A/S is designed to open the grooves up and expand for extended performance as tread depth wears down. The Canyon Groove design and circumferential grooves with chamfered edges work as a system to deliver the grip you need in wet or wintry conditions for a traction score of 8.6. Durability is a strong point too – thanks in part to the wear-resistant properties of that 4D Nano tread compound, Falken covers the Azenis FK460 A/S with a 50,000 mile manufacturer’s treadwear warranty, registering a SimpleScore of 9.1 for longevity. Steering response, cornering, road manners, and braking performance are all accurate and direct with this tire, for a SimpleScore of 8.8 for handling. We should also mention here that the Azenis FK460 A/S is designed for a quiet, composed ride on the highway, with a minimum of road noise thanks to grooves that are acoustically tuned to cancel certain frequencies and cut wind noise.
5. Toyo Extensa HP II: Good All-Season tire
We’re wrapping up this list with the Toyo Extensa HP II, a great value in a performance-oriented all-season tire. We give the Extensa HP II a very respectable SimpleScore of 8.7 for traction thanks to its innovative all-season tread design that incorporates 3D multi-wave sipes, two circumferential grooves, and V-shaped lateral voids that all work together to resist hydroplaning by channeling standing water through and behind the tire’s contact patch. Handling is consistent and precise (SimpleScore of 8.7), with large shoulders and outer tread blocks with double and single-cut tapers that improve block stiffness and road contact while resisting the stresses of cornering. With a 45,000 mile warranty, the Toyo Extensa HP II is durable too, with two steel belts, a polyester casing, and a nylon reinforcement ply for a longevity score of 9.4.
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