2022 Sport Auto All Season Tire Test

The testing heroes at Sport Auto have answered a question we've all wanted to know the answer to! Just how good are all season tires in large wheel sizes on a performance vehicle?

To answer this, Sport Auto have tested six of the best all season tires, and included a NAMED summer and winter tire, the Bridgestone Potenza Sport UUHP summer tire, and the test winning Bridgestone Blizzak LM005 winter tire.

It's a good test.

Dry

What can we learn? Naturally the summer tire wins the dry tests, that's no surprise, but there's quite a big delta in dry braking and a huge difference in dry handling! The winter also places as you'd expect in dry handling, although it does beat the Goodyear Vector 4Seasons G3 in dry braking, which is always a weakness of that all season tire.

Wet

Wet braking is quite a surprise. The tests were done at 8c, and it's important to remember the Potenza Sport UUHP summer tire is one of the UUHP tires that does need a bit of temperature to work, but in this test the summer tire could only manage mid pack in wet braking and near the bottom during wet handling! The rear star is the winter tire, beating all the all season tires are relatively warm winter conditions, apart from the Vredestein Quatrac Pro, which is always outstanding in the wet.

Snow

Fortunately the winter tire was also the best in all the snow tests and the summer tire the worst.

As we've seen in other tests, the Michelin CrossClimate 2 is as close to a winter tire as any all season tire is.

Environment

Noise is an interesting test, with the summer tire by far the nosiest and the winter tire once again only being beat by the Vredestein. Summer tires are usually closer to all season tires in noise, this Potenza Sport is particularly noisy.

There was quite a spread in rolling resistance, with the AllSeasonContact proving to be the best of the group.

Interestingly all the all season tires were priced between the summer and winter tires.

Results

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1st: Michelin CrossClimate 2
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: C/B/71 Weight: 9.98kgs Tread: 6.7mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 2nd +1.5 M 96.07% Dry Handling 2nd -4.4 Km/H 96.54% Wet Braking 7th +5.5 M 84.55% Wet Handling 7th -5.5 Km/H 92.71% Wet Circle 7th -0.74 m/s 91.24% Straight Aqua 5th -4.2 Km/H 94.44% Curved Aquaplaning 5th -0.73 m/sec2 73.55% Snow Braking 2nd +0.2 M 99.24% Snow Handling 2nd -0.2 Km/H 99.58% Snow Slalom 2nd -0.08 m/sec2 97.71% Noise 5th +1 dB 98.61% Price 6th +37 82.21% Rolling Resistance 2nd +0.1 kg / t 98.68% Very good on snow with a high level of grip and a comparatively wide limit range for an all-season. Very short braking distances dry. Good feedback and high grip in dry corners, good safety reserves. Slightly longer braking distances in the wet and heavy understeer in wet turns, somewhat reduced aquaplaning safety. Weakly audible howling noise between 50 and 30 km/h (determined when the vehicle coasts from 80 km/h) Test Winner / Very Good. Read Reviews    Buy from £176.00
2nd: Vredestein Quatrac Pro
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: D/B/71 Weight: 11.1kgs Tread: 7.9mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 6th +6.3 M 85.35% Dry Handling 4th -4.6 Km/H 96.39% Wet Braking 1st 100% Wet Handling 1st 100% Wet Circle 2nd -0.28 m/s 96.69% Straight Aqua 7th -5.5 Km/H 92.72% Curved Aquaplaning 7th -0.83 m/sec2 69.93% Snow Braking 7th +4.8 M 84.47% Snow Handling 7th -4.4 Km/H 90.81% Snow Slalom 7th -0.43 m/sec2 87.68% Noise 1st 100% Price 2nd +3 98.28% Rolling Resistance 6th +1.5 kg / t 83.33% Moderate grip on snow, but excellent wet grip with very precise and reliable handling. Reliable performance even in the dry. Very quiet on the outside and inside, comfortable. Slightly longer braking distances on snow, a bit nervous and sensitive to load changes when cornering. High rolling resistance. Very Good. Read Reviews    Buy from £150.29
3rd: Continental AllSeasonContact
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: C/A/72 Weight: 8.86kgs Tread: 7.8mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 5th +5.6 M 86.76% Dry Handling 6th -5.5 Km/H 95.68% Wet Braking 6th +4.4 M 87.25% Wet Handling 4th -3.3 Km/H 95.62% Wet Circle 4th -0.46 m/s 94.56% Straight Aqua 3rd -3.2 Km/H 95.77% Curved Aquaplaning 3rd -0.34 m/sec2 87.68% Snow Braking 3rd +2.7 M 90.63% Snow Handling 3rd -1.7 Km/H 96.45% Snow Slalom 4th -0.3 m/sec2 91.4% Noise 7th +2 dB 97.26% Price 4th +22 88.6% Rolling Resistance 1st 100% Very good traction and easy to control driving behavior on snow, cooperates very well with the ASR/ESP/ABS control systems. Quite safe from aquaplaning, good level of grip and safe handling on dry roads, very low rolling resistance. Sharp traction break, narrow slip zone on snow. Slightly longer braking distances on wet and dry roads. Very Good. Read Reviews    Buy from £160.99
4th: Bridgestone Weather Control A005
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: C/A/72 Weight: 10.3kgs Tread: 6.9mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 3rd +3.3 M 91.75% Dry Handling 3rd -4.5 Km/H 96.47% Wet Braking 3rd +2.8 M 91.49% Wet Handling 5th -3.7 Km/H 95.09% Wet Circle 3rd -0.42 m/s 95.03% Straight Aqua 8th -6.9 Km/H 90.87% Curved Aquaplaning 8th -0.92 m/sec2 66.67% Snow Braking 5th +2.9 M 90% Snow Handling 5th -2.8 Km/H 94.15% Snow Slalom 6th -0.41 m/sec2 88.25% Noise 5th +1 dB 98.61% Price 3rd +11 93.96% Rolling Resistance 3rd +0.8 kg / t 90.36% Quite balanced performance on snow for an all-season, decent grip in the wet, cornering, precise and quite similar to a summer tire in the dry. Comparatively narrow threshold range on snow, low aquaplaning resistance, faintly audible, humming road noise at low speeds. Good. Read Reviews
4th: Bridgestone Blizzak LM005
235/35 R19 91W EU Label: C/A/72 Weight: 10.46kgs Tread: 8.7mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 7th +6.4 M 85.15% Dry Handling 8th -7 Km/H 94.5% Wet Braking 2nd +2.6 M 92.05% Wet Handling 2nd -1.7 Km/H 97.75% Wet Circle 6th -0.48 m/s 94.32% Straight Aqua 4th -4.1 Km/H 94.58% Curved Aquaplaning 6th -0.74 m/sec2 73.19% Snow Braking 1st 100% Snow Handling 1st 100% Snow Slalom 1st 100% Noise 2nd +0.1 dB 99.86% Price 8th +69 71.25% Rolling Resistance 4th +1.1 kg / t 87.21% Reference winter tires with better grip due to the system and wider slip and limit areas on snow. Easily manageable even in critical situations. Good wet grip, decent ride comfort. Significant deficits when driving fast on winding, dry roads. Sluggish steering response, strong understeer. Very weakly perceptible rolling noise inside the vehicle, increased rolling resistance. Read Reviews
5th: Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen 3
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: D/C/72 Weight: 9.4kgs Tread: 8.3mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 8th +7.2 M 83.6% Dry Handling 7th -5.7 Km/H 95.52% Wet Braking 5th +3.4 M 89.85% Wet Handling 3rd -2.3 Km/H 96.95% Wet Circle 5th -0.47 m/s 94.44% Straight Aqua 6th -5.2 Km/H 93.12% Curved Aquaplaning 4th -0.72 m/sec2 73.91% Snow Braking 4th +2.8 M 90.31% Snow Handling 6th -3 Km/H 93.74% Snow Slalom 3rd -0.29 m/sec2 91.69% Noise 4th +0.6 dB 99.16% Price 7th +55 75.66% Rolling Resistance 6th +1.5 kg / t 83.33% Decent grip and agile handling on snow, safer and wider limit area on wet. Very manageable on dry roads, but not very dynamic. Low reserves for spinning wheels on snow. Not very stable when changing loads in the wet. Longer braking distances on dry asphalt, high rolling resistance. Good. Read Reviews
6th: Toyo Celsius AS2
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: D/B/71 Weight: 9.92kgs Tread: 7.7mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 4th +4.2 M 89.73% Dry Handling 5th -5.2 Km/H 95.92% Wet Braking 8th +9.4 M 76.2% Wet Handling 8th -6.9 Km/H 90.85% Wet Circle 8th -0.87 m/s 89.7% Straight Aqua 1st 100% Curved Aquaplaning 2nd -0.18 m/sec2 93.48% Snow Braking 6th +4 M 86.71% Snow Handling 4th -2.7 Km/H 94.36% Snow Slalom 5th -0.39 m/sec2 88.83% Noise 3rd +0.4 dB 99.44% Price 5th +31 84.65% Rolling Resistance 5th +1.3 kg / t 85.23% Acceptable braking and cornering grip on snow. Good balanced performance on dry roads, superior aquaplaning safety. Inharmonious with too small steering angle and slip reserves handling on snow. Deficits in cornering grip and too long braking distances on a wet road (devaluation). Increased rolling resistance. A bit rumbling, howling road noise at 70-50 km/h. Fair. Read Reviews
7th: Bridgestone Potenza Sport
235/35 R19 91Y EU Label: D/A/72 Weight: 10.03kgs Tread: 6.4mm	Test # Difference % Dry Braking 1st 100% Dry Handling 1st 100% Wet Braking 4th +3.3 M 90.12% Wet Handling 6th -4.1 Km/H 94.56% Wet Circle 1st 100% Straight Aqua 2nd -0.1 Km/H 99.87% Curved Aquaplaning 1st 100% Snow Braking 8th +30.7 M 45.95% Snow Handling 8th -30.3 Km/H 36.74% Snow Slalom 8th -2.26 m/sec2 35.24% Noise 8th +2.8 dB 96.21% Price 1st 100% Rolling Resistance 8th +2.3 kg / t 76.53% Reference summer tire with high grip and cornering potential on dry and wet roads. Reliable only at higher road surface temperatures above +10°C. Insufficient grip on snow. In the wet tests at +8°C, frequent loss of grip and sudden breakaway. Hard, rumbling rolling on edges and joints due to the temperature, comparatively high rolling resistance. Read Reviews    Buy from £120.19