Once a year, the wonderful people at the German publication Auto Bild take a huge number of all season tires through a wet and dry braking, to find the very best to include in their full test.
Fortunately, this year is no different, and below you'll find the wet and dry braking results of thirty five all season tires, and a summer and winter reference tire, with the top fifteen going through to the full test which will be on the site next week.
Too bad Fulda MultiControl always gets bad results in dry+wet braking since, in the few tests it was thoroughly tested, it proved to be excellent in the snow and had good dry+wet handling results. It also proved to have great wear results and, since it's a cheap tire, it's a great value for money. But, honestly, if it doesn't prove to be good in dry+wet braking it shouldn't be considered in an All Season tire test!
After 3 years wet performance got really, really bad with my Fulda Multicontrol. After 45000 km still 5 mm left on the front and over 7 mm on the rear.
Maybe you'll get some wet performance back if you have the tires exchange place (front to back and vice versa). I think you may lose some wet stability (may be more oversteery at the very limit) but you'll get more straight aquaplanning performance and certainly get more wet braking performance.
I think the Fulda is a cynical tire. It comes from a well known brand so you think "It has to be good!", but instead it is constantly amongst the worst performers when it comes to braking. When i buy a Zeetex i know it is going to be bad, but a Fulda?! Even more worrying is the fact that they obviously haven't updated the Multicontrol over the years. I mean...they belong to Goodyear and even GYs other budget brands like Debica and Sava have far more modern allseason tires in their portfolio. So why does Fulda stick to the old Multicontrol?
I think there's probably production issues throughout the industry which means goodyear are focusing on their main brand. They've stopped developing Dunlop too
Have you got any info on Dunlop's "Sport" and "Winter Trail" tires? They are on sale on various european web-pages, but there is no info on Dunlop's ones. They are also on EPREL database (check 225/40 R18 for example).
"Sport" (just "Sport", without "Maxx") tread pattern looks like the same of Fulda Multicontrol 2. Weird.
I've not. Goodyear are slowly dropping Dunlop down to a tier 2 brand, so if it was similar to the Fulda which is already a goodyear tier 2 brand that wouldn't be overly surprising!
Hello, How come 5 cars are on the list of tires?By the way none of them can not be fitted with the tested size of tires: A6, Navarra,320i,Nissan R32,Infiniti G35. Wich tires are missing from the test? Thanks
Too bad Fulda MultiControl always gets bad results in dry+wet braking since, in the few tests it was thoroughly tested, it proved to be excellent in the snow and had good dry+wet handling results. It also proved to have great wear results and, since it's a cheap tire, it's a great value for money. But, honestly, if it doesn't prove to be good in dry+wet braking it shouldn't be considered in an All Season tire test!
Exactly! Sounds more like a winter tire with an all season name!
Agree!
After 3 years wet performance got really, really bad with my Fulda Multicontrol. After 45000 km still 5 mm left on the front and over 7 mm on the rear.
45000 km is very impressive for that little wear!
Maybe you'll get some wet performance back if you have the tires exchange place (front to back and vice versa). I think you may lose some wet stability (may be more oversteery at the very limit) but you'll get more straight aquaplanning performance and certainly get more wet braking performance.
I think the Fulda is a cynical tire. It comes from a well known brand so you think "It has to be good!", but instead it is constantly amongst the worst performers when it comes to braking. When i buy a Zeetex i know it is going to be bad, but a Fulda?!
Even more worrying is the fact that they obviously haven't updated the Multicontrol over the years. I mean...they belong to Goodyear and even GYs other budget brands like Debica and Sava have far more modern allseason tires in their portfolio. So why does Fulda stick to the old Multicontrol?
I think there's probably production issues throughout the industry which means goodyear are focusing on their main brand. They've stopped developing Dunlop too
Hello, Jonathan.
Have you got any info on Dunlop's "Sport" and "Winter Trail" tires? They are on sale on various european web-pages, but there is no info on Dunlop's ones. They are also on EPREL database (check 225/40 R18 for example).
"Sport" (just "Sport", without "Maxx") tread pattern looks like the same of Fulda Multicontrol 2. Weird.
I've not. Goodyear are slowly dropping Dunlop down to a tier 2 brand, so if it was similar to the Fulda which is already a goodyear tier 2 brand that wouldn't be overly surprising!
Hello,
How come 5 cars are on the list of tires?By the way none of them can not be fitted with the tested size of tires: A6, Navarra,320i,Nissan R32,Infiniti G35.
Wich tires are missing from the test?
Thanks
Sorry, I hadn't pinged the site cache, they should be tires now :)