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2020 Winter Tire Market Overview - 52 Tire Braking Test

Tested size
245/45 R18
Tires tested
48
Disciplines
2

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No test-specific category weights are recorded; this starts with season defaults.

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Fine-tune disciplines 1
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within category · 54% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 1
%

within category · 46% of overall score

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Season defaults

Results

Movement is compared with the default calculation, not the published finishing order. Scores use unrounded totals for ranking.

Measured results in the tested size. Arrows show whether lower or higher is better.
ft ↓ft ↓
1 1 99.62 99 100.0 80 99.2
2 2 97.29 105 95.0 80 100.0
3 3 96.12 101 98.4 85 93.5
4 4 95.81 104 95.3 83 96.4
5 5 95.37 106 93.8 82 97.2
6 6 94.18 109 91.3 82 97.6
7 7 93.42 112 88.9 81 98.8
8 8 93.00 113 88.1 81 98.8
9 9 92.63 113 88.1 81 98.0
10 10 92.56 112 88.6 82 97.2
11 11 91.37 115 86.1 82 97.6
12 13 91.12 114 87.6 84 95.3
13 12 91.20 115 86.1 82 97.2
14 14 90.80 115 86.3 83 96.1
15 17 90.49 115 86.1 83 95.7
16 19 90.11 114 87.6 86 93.1
17 15 90.71 118 84.2 81 98.4
18 16 90.70 119 83.5 80 99.2
19 18 90.27 119 83.7 81 98.0
20 20 89.81 115 86.1 85 94.2
21 21 89.61 119 83.5 82 96.8
22 23 89.04 116 85.6 86 93.1
24 22 89.36 120 83.0 82 96.8
25 25 88.55 114 87.3 89 90.0
26 24 88.58 121 81.9 83 96.4
27 26 87.77 112 88.6 92 86.8
28 27 87.67 121 82.1 85 94.2
29 29 85.75 117 84.9 92 86.8
30 28 85.77 121 81.9 88 90.3
31 30 85.62 121 81.9 89 90.0
32 — — 122 81.7 — —
33 — — 124 80.0 — —
34 — — 126 79.1 — —
35 — — 126 78.9 — —
36 — — 127 78.3 — —
37 — — 128 77.9 — —
38 — — 128 77.7 — —
39 — — 129 77.1 — —
40 — — 130 76.5 — —
41 — — 133 74.8 — —
42 — — 133 74.6 — —
44 — — 134 74.5 — —
45 — — 135 73.9 — —
47 — — 136 73.2 — —
48 — — 136 73.2 — —
49 — — 137 72.7 — —
50 — — 139 71.6 — —
51 — — 141 70.3 — —
Ref
Reference Summer
— — 103 96.5 — —

Raw results do not change when you move the sliders. Scroll horizontally to see every discipline.

Leading with these priorities

Bridgestone Blizzak LM005

99.62/ 100

These are calculated scenarios, not new test awards. The published verdict may reflect judgement, close results and factors outside this calculation.

Not ranked: a measurement needed for these weights is missing. Missing results are not treated as zero or redistributed.

Reference tires provide context only. They do not set the benchmark and cannot win the personalised ranking.

Weighting vs real impact

What decides this ranking

The weighting is how much each category counts. The real impact is how much of the difference between the tires it creates: a discipline in which every tire performed about the same barely changes the order, however much it counts.

No weighting is recorded for this test, so the weighting here starts from Tire Reviews’ season defaults, not from the test’s own scoring.

  • Wet 54% 57%
  • Snow 46% 43%
  • Every discipline’s real impact is close to its weighting, so here the weights are a fair guide to what decides the order.
Every discipline 2
DisciplineWeightingReal impact
Wet Braking 54% 57%
Snow Braking 46% 43%

How it is worked out: each discipline’s weighting is multiplied by the spread of its results (the gap across the middle half of the tires, as a percentage of the best result), then shared out so that all the disciplines add up to 100%. It estimates what separates the tires; it is not a second set of weights, and it follows the weights you set.

How your ranking is calculated

Each discipline is scored against the best non-reference tire in the full test field: best ÷ result × 100 when lower is better, or result ÷ best × 100 when higher is better. Discipline scores are rounded to two decimal places, then combined using your weights.

Within-category weights divide that category’s share of the overall score. A 50% wet category and 40% wet-braking share give wet braking 20% of the total. A weight is a scoring priority, not a measure of its actual effect on the ranking: the performance gaps matter too. What decides this ranking ↑

Published joint positions are preserved separately. Calculated positions tie only when their underlying scores match; two displayed scores can look equal after rounding.

A zero weight excludes that category or discipline. At least one active discipline is required, and the disciplines in every active category must have a positive total.

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