2019 Auto Bild All Season Tire Test

I had the Michelin crossclimate plus, my first all season. My experience is very disappointing regarding wear. They lasted 3 years and 25.000 km. The noise is high. i think that because the car is not moving very much because of the Covid Pandemic, the tiers changed their form and make a strange noise.

Hi,

I am still looking forward to the promised 2020 test, especially since the vector gen 3 has just been launched.

Best all season tire for me is by far Michelin Pilot Sport AS 3 Plus! You can buy them on ebay from USA ;)

To all who are looking at the CrossClimate+ :

I had this tire in this size on our Audi A3
It is a really good tire but more summer focussed then Winter.
Negative: very loud (even wenn New)

I would recomend Vredestein Quatrac 5 or (if not in your size) Quatrac Pro.

This tire is way more balanced and the most important: very very quite!

Best regards,
Morris

Since you are about to perform an all season tire test, I would like to share a thought of mine. How do all season and summer tires from the same manufacturer, compare with each other; For example, Quatrac 5 vs Sportrack 5 or Cinturato allseason vs P1 etc. Thank you for time.

Interesting test - But for me it highlighted just how biased a test can be by the personal priorities / opinions of whoever is executing them:

I recently was looking for a set of tires for my mother's Ford Fiesta - She doesn't do big distances (the recently-scrapped set of age-expired premium summers it was wearing still had a good 4-5mm of tread), she just wants to be able to stop quickly in the wet or dry - and she wouldn't swap tires between warm and cold weather (i.e. she won't do separate summer / winter tires).

I bought her a set of Conti All-Seasons, but if I'd have seen this test I may well have gone for the Bridgestones: Cheaper, better wet and dry braking, better aquaplaning resistance and better fuel consumption. The only reasons this tire didn't score better here are poor wear (not an issue in an elderly relative's car) and slightly increased noise (also not a problem, as this demographic does not drive all that fast or far at a time and often has lower awareness of such things!).

I think you should have given it a special shout-out recommendation as a good choice for lower annual mileage cars such as my mother's.