Scion Xb Tires

The xB was applauded by the automotive press and testing agencies for its safety, and earlier iterations of the model were rated at 31 mpg city/37 mpg highway. At SimpleTire, we’ve taken the time to round up some of the best tire options for your Scion xB, including all-season, all-weather and winter tire choices. Without further delay, let’s go in for a closer look:

1. Goodyear Assurance MaxLife - Best All-Season tire

First out of the gate we come to the Goodyear Assurance MaxLife, a do-all tire that’s a perfect choice for year-round traction along with superb performance. It’s a tire that’s designed around delivering the value and quality that drivers have come to associate with the Goodyear brand. Goodyear named the MaxLife properly – it’s designed with Goodyear’s TredLife system, for durability and long, even wear. That’s all thanks to robust internal construction and an advanced, rubber formulation. SimpleScore assigns a longevity score of 9.9 to this tire, since Goodyear stands by the Assurance MaxLife with a phenomenal 85,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty. Great steering response and road manners come from a solid center rib, with semi-closed shoulders, sticky tread formula, and a polyamide reinforcement layer, all of which add up to a SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling. A network of sipes deliver year-round grip, with circumferential grooves, angled and lateral grooves that all work as a system to resist hydroplaning and deliver confident cornering in wet or dry weather. That’s enough for a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction.

2. Bridgestone Weatherpeak - Best All-Weather tire

The Bridgestone Weatherpeak is another excellent option here. In case you’re new to the term, all-weather tires are designed with much of the same performance in mind as with all-season tires, but they’re specifically oriented toward winter traction when all-season tires often just aren’t up to the job. The Bridgestone Weatherpeak is loaded with sipes, hair-thin slits in the tread that add hundreds of biting edges to chew through snow and slush. These sipes are a full-depth 3D design that actually stay effective, even as the tread wears down, along with “snow vices” that trap snow and develop traction through snow-to-snow friction. That’s enough to warrant the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rating for severe winter service, with tests indicating stopping distances that are 30 feet shorter than the competition in winter weather. All that put together is enough for a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction. Those tread features and the tread compound are also designed for excellent road manners, steering response and cornering ability, for a SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling. We also gave this tire a SimpleScore of 9.8 for longevity – Bridgestone covers the Weatherpeak with a 70,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty, which is pretty hard to beat.

3. Pirelli Cinturato Winter 2 - Best Winter tire

If you live in a part of the country that sees a lot of snow every winter and cold temperatures that keep that snow around for weeks at a time, you might be a good candidate for winter tires for your Scion xB. The Cinturato Winter 2 is a great choice for those kinds of conditions; it’s loaded with a whole package of features that inspire confidence in snow and slush. The Pirelli Cinturato Winter 2 starts off with a tread formulation that’s designed to stay flexible in sub-freezing temperatures. That rubber compound is molded into an aggressive directional winter tread with chamfered grooves for good evacuation of water and slush and an interlocking system of 3D sipes that wear down to a zigzag design to go on providing winter grip – earning a SimpleScore of a solid 9.9 for traction (and Three Peak Mountain Snowflake designation). That tread design also means a winter tire that can offer the road manners, braking ability, and cornering of a premium all-season tire, for a SimpleScore of 9.9 for handling. Tread wear is excellent too (for a winter tire), thanks to the tread compound and robust internal construction. We noted a SimpleScore of 8.5 for longevity for the Pirelli Cinturato Winter 2.

While these are the best Scion xB tires on the market today, there are plenty of other options out there. Here are a few more to checkout:

4. General Altimax RT45 - Great All-Season tire

Don’t be fooled by the lower price point of the General Altimax RT45. This is a tire that’s equally capable in all kinds of weather conditions, with a proven all-season tread pattern and General Tire covers the Altimax RT45 with either a 65,000 or 75,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty (depending on tire size). That’s why we awarded the Altimax RT45 for a SimpleScore of an outstanding 9.9 for longevity. You can depend on the Altimax RT45 to deliver year-round traction, a supple ride, good road manners, low noise, and predictable, consistent handling and braking performance (SimpleScore for traction: 9.0). With a network of sipes and lateral grooves and a solid center rib that boosts road manners and steering response, we give the Altimax RT45 a SimpleScore of 8.7 for handling. Another nice feature is the visual alignment indicators to alert a driver to wheel alignment that’s out of spec, and the words “Replace Tire” molded into the tread to display when tread depth reaches a minimum of 2/32”. Select sizes of the Altimax RT45 are available with a great-looking outlined white letter sidewall.

5. Falken Sincera SN250 A/S - Good All-Season tire

Falken designed the Sincera SN250 A/S for class-leading durability and traction in all kinds of weather, plus great handling and ride comfort, and backs this all-season tire with a 75,000 or 80,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty. That outstanding tread wear coverage is thanks to an advanced rubber compound and a rib tread that encourages long, even wear – enough for a SimpleScore of 9.0 for longevity. Year-round grip comes from a combination of circumferential grooves, 3D sipes, and an interlocking effect from all the tread’s systems, racking up a SimpleScore of 9.0 for handling. Finally, the Sincera SN250’s solid center rib and reinforced shoulders deliver great road manners, steering response, braking performance, and cornering for a SimpleScore of 9.0 for handling. We should also note that the Falken Sincera SN250 A/S is equipped with a rim guard flange built into the sidewall to protect the tire and wheel against curb scuffs.

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