Good tires could save your life, and more importantly, the lives of drivers around you. The average person will spend more time researching what kind of clothes dryer to purchase than the rubber donuts that hold their 3000 pound rolling vehicular manslaughter machines to the road. I am the worlds biggest tire geek, and do nothing but berate the type of mouth breathers that walk into a Tire Kingdom and ask “What do you have that’s cheap and fits my car? Cheap is more important than proper fit, mind you.” Those types of people include my parents, and that grates me to no end. I might well have been the worst person that Hooniverse could have sent to this event. So what is the point of this tire? Let’s find out together. Being in Arizona, the chances were quite low that we’d be testing them in any snow, even a light dusting, so that was out of the question, but really that’s not the point of this tire. I was curious to see if the ‘performance’ made them garbage in the cold or rain, and I wanted to see how they fared in warm dry conditions. So when BF Goodrich invited me out to test their new g-force Comp 2 A/S tire, I was eager to see whether or not the grip tradeoff would be worth it for moderate cold-weather use. I’ve always been a summer tire/winter tire guy, and I probably always will be. I was, and remain, skeptical of the words “performance” and “all season” being used to describe the same tire. They flew me there, put me up in a posh room, fed me posh food, and gave me the opportunity to meet the infamous Judge Phil (but I won’t hold that against them). In the interest of full disclosure, BF Goodrich invited me to Phoenix to test some of their new round black things.
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