Yokohama Avid Ascend

I have Yokohama Avid Ascend GT 235/40R19 96V XL tires on my 2017 Ford Fusion Sport. I put them on in February 2025, about a month after getting the car, and have driven roughly 27,000 miles since. The tires are already due for replacement.

Two are at 3/32" and two are at 4/32" which isn't the lowest tread depth, but it's pretty low with New England winter right around the corner. I have mixed city/highway driving and drive the car every day. Although I do occasionally drive in a spirited manner, I don't track this car.

Overall, they're just okay tires. They aren't terrible by any means, but they don't impress either. For about the first 10,000 miles they had a subtle humming noise that drove (haha) me nuts, but after this lengthy break-in period it's gotten much better. Otherwise, they've always been pretty comfortable and seem to provide good feedback. I can feel and hear what the tires are doing most of the time.

Naturally, dry and wet grip have worsened as the tires wear. Although dry grip is still adequate, wet grip is notably worse compared to even 5,000 miles ago. However, these aren't UHPAS or summer tires, so although they usually grip well enough, the maximum grip isn't quite as much as I'd like from a tire.

At the dry grip limit, or as close as I could get, they handle fine. When the car is settled in a turn and the limit is exceeded, they usually start to break traction in a gradual manner instead of suddenly losing it. Although my car understeers and front traction breaks sooner, the rear sometimes feels a little skittish and can be hard to anticipate, but this could be me and not the tires.

Since these tires won't see a second winter I don't have much to go on, but they did fine in the unexpectedly severe 2025 winter I experienced. They were able to handle thick slush and a couple inches of snow well enough, but only if driving very cautiously and easing the car through turns. Any excess speed resulted in a slide if the wheels were on any amount of snow.

The biggest disappointment for me is the tread life. These are 740 UTQG tires and have a 65,000 mile warranty, but they didn't even last half that long. Normally I would pursue the warranty, but I'd rather get better tires instead of dealing with all that hassle.

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.