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Gentlemen, (For UAE residents), Need to share my experience to all Mazda CX-9 GT owners, which I've gone through during replacing my cars tire of size 245/50R20 (OEM Tire - Bridgestone Dueler-400) in September 2011. I searched a lot, read reviews and finally filtered two tires; 1) Yokohama Prada Spec-X (But available only in a bit large size i.e 255/50R20). 2) Pirelli Scorpion STR (245/50R20). Then searched for the prices contact lot of sellers/tire shops and finally the best rate i got from a shop in Sharjah i.e Al-Nouf Tires ( Mr. Ahmed Fani - call at 065303584, Coordinates @25.306579, 55.389458) Address: Dubai-Sharjah Road - Al nahda street - Sahara Center – Lots of Tire shops (opposite to Day to Day discount shop) and behind that shops you can find Al nouf tire warehouse. (You can call while you reach nearby and will guide you to reach there) The prices I've got; 1) Yokohama Prada Spec-X (255/50R20, Made in Japan, 2011) - Price: 750 AED 2) Pirelli – Scorpion STR (245/50R20, Made in China, 2011) - Price: 600 AED And its better to share the price of other compatible as well; 3) Bridgestone – Dueler 400 (245/50R20, Made in Japan, 2010) - Price:1100 AED 4) Continental Contact (255/50R20, 2010) - Price: 1300 AED I bought YOKOHAMA PRADA SPEC-X (25/50R20) (Warranty does not be effected due to size difference as I talked with Service Manager of Mazda Galadari - Abu Dhabi). So, my suggestion would be to buy the tires and get it fitted with your trusted tire fitter as Al-Nouf tires only sell tires not fit tires, but you can get the tires fitted also from any tire shop (adjacent to that al nouf warehouse), which I did, I got my tire fitted from nearby shop but they didnt balance the wheels well, so I've to do it from my trusted shop and it went fine - Now going extremly fine - SATISFIED. Warning: 1) As the new tires are bit large then original tires i.e. 255/50R20, so keep your car speed a little bit low to avoid traffic fines (In my case 140 is the max speed in Abu Dhabi to avoid fines, I drive my CX-9 at 139 Km/hr which is equivalent to 140 km/hr actually due to tire size difference) 2) These are my personal experience that I shared, please ensure at your part as well.