Yokohama Avid Ascend

We purchased these tires for our Jeep Renegade to replace the factory installed Kumho Crugen Premiums which had over 39,000 miles of driving, I was never impressed with the Kumho tires as I thought they were noisy, but they were subjected to every type of inclement weather, which they did admirably but I was wanting a quieter tire, It was a toss up between the Vredestein Quatrac Pro and Yokohama but the limited availability of the Vredestein tires here in the US I decided to go with the Yokohama Avid Ascend GT and I couldn't be happier with our purchase, I even found them on sale for $160 per tire where our larger box stores were in the $200 dollar range per tire. I noticed immediately a drop in road noise which I confirmed via a db reader the Kumho were measured at 74db and the Yokohama verified on the same patch of road on the same day was 67db, no noticeable drop or rise in fuel economy, I also noticed better handling as well, the Yokohama seem to have better initial turn-in and far more overall grip than the Kumho as well... Wear will be the ultimate test as I only have 2000 miles on them where the Kumho had 39,000 miles with plenty of tread left but they were nearing 5 years of ownership and a recent collision with a ladder on a freeway resulted in us searching for a replacement set as one of the tires had a chunk taken out of the sidewall but it did get us home and I ordered a spare replacement which I kept and made it our spare tire and installed the 4 brand new Yokohama about a month afterwards. I have also been a Yokohama tire consumer since the 80's with multiple vehicles and millions of miles and I have had awesome experiences with their tires over the 40 years of driving.

At half life, least one of the tires likely went off round and is noisy and bumpy at all speeds even with recent tire balancing. I took it to the dealer and the head mechanic drove it and said that tire is bad and they need to be replaced. Other than this issue, I would say that the tire griped well on dry and wet roads.