Continental crosscontact Lx-25, and I’m in north Florida, with similar tire objectives to you. The tires are NOT available at Costco, at least here, but otherwise easily found. I bought mine at Discount Tire. Have about 800 miles on them, and recommend them highly. Extremely comfortable ride, great handling and grip, no drop in mpg when I installed them.

 

Thank you for your business. We would second that recommendation for the Continental Cross Contact LX25 and even the Michelin Defender 2.

 

Thanks for this recommendation!

 

I live near Dallas. Almost never snows. I chose the Continental Cross Contact LX25 and I'm happy with them. They do "scream" a little on concrete roads when new, but by every other measure they're wonderful.

 

Michelin Defenders

 

You can't rotate MI CC2's properly, because they are directional tires. Get the Goodyear weather ready. I work for a Toyota dealership in Minnesota. These are one of our best selling tires, and most repeat purchase tires.

 

Hmmm, I never was a fan of cross rotation, always preferred front-to-back as most of the wear comes from steering so front to back takes care of that. YMMV.

 

#7 in your priorities list pretty much cancels out the first 6. Since it was listed as # 7, I am going to suggest you remove it and stick with the first 6.

The cross climates (available at Costco) pretty much does it all though.

 

I missed the #7 snow performance. Guess I was focusing on San Diego.

The Pirelli Scorpion Weather active checks all seven requirements. It bests the CC2 in most of those. Only the Defender would have longer life.

If you buy tires from Tire Rack, and have them mounted at Discount Tire, Tire Rack throws in a free road hazard warranty. All others you have to pay for road hazard. Thus the total price from Tire Rack is less than the others, including Costco.

Go to the Tire Rack web site where you can compare the ratings on the tires you are interested in. When I was shopping this is what they showed.\:

 

I put Michelin Defender 2s on our new Limited hybrid last summer & I believe they tick all 7 of your boxes, with the possible exception of being available @ Costco. We're not members, so I can't tell you if they stock them. We bought ours from Discount Tire where they traded us out of the new OE Dunlops. With just over 7,000 miles on them now, they've been great tires.

 

Continental CrossContact LX25 is what I put on mine after OEM worn out. LX25 have been also great on my 2011 Highlander Hybrid.

I went with the CC Lx25 for the R4P because they did so well on the '11 HH. They could have gone the 70k mile warranty amount, but given our family situation and catching a nail, we swapped all 4 at 65K miles.

We are a Ventura/Santa Barbara County highway driver.

 

Focus on first 6. Maybe the defenders is good. I'm only 3k into my stock tires on my 2024 but will switch up to Defenders when it's time.

I found someone selling black powder coated rims from their 2023 and I bought them and put winter tires for my Tahoe snow runs ~250-300 miles away. He also included (4) TPMS.

I bought (4) Blizzak DMVs from America's Tire (California) (Discount Tire in other states) and they installed the TPMs. I change the tires myself when going to/from snow. You don't want to leave them on all winter in California unless you live in Tahoe.

My only regret is putting the powder black coated rims for my winter tires setup. They are bad ass looking.