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2025 ADAC Winter Tire Test

Tested size
225/40 R18
Tires tested
31
Disciplines
12

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

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within category · 19% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 4
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within category · 14.7% of overall score

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within category · 0.33% of overall score

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within category · 14.38% of overall score

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within category · 3.59% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 2
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within category · 13.34% of overall score

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within category · 15.66% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 1
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within category · 5% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 1
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within category · 5% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 3
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within category · 3.33% of overall score

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within category · 3.24% of overall score

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within category · 2.43% 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 ↓ft ↓mph ↑mph ↑ft ↓lbf ↑ft ↓dB ↓miles ↑l/100km ↓mg/km/t ↓
1 1 96.81 139 97.9 104 120 6.7 47.9 98.3 32 54 95.1 55 91.0 71.2 98.7 47,535 5.8 50 96.7
2 2 94.41 136 100.0 106 121 5.4 46.7 89.0 31 55 97.1 53 93.3 71.5 98.3 41,632 5.8 50 92.4
3 3 94.10 144 94.5 106 120 6.5 46.5 95.8 31 54 94.9 53 93.8 72.4 97.1 35,853 5.8 62 82.9
4= 4 94.00 143 94.7 108 123 6.5 46.0 94.9 32 54 94.2 57 87.4 75.3 93.4 44,987 5.7 56 92.5
4= 5 93.54 144 94.1 113 128 6.7 45.5 94.2 31 54 95.8 55 90.5 74.1 94.9 38,090 5.7 67 83.5
6 7 92.46 140 97.2 108 125 6.0 46.7 92.1 32 53 93.4 59 84.0 71.8 97.9 32,995 5.6 60 82.8
7 8 92.04 145 93.7 115 134 5.8 47.8 88.4 31 56 98.0 55 90.5 71.9 97.8 32,746 5.7 64 80.5
8= 14 90.69 141 96.1 107 120 5.1 44.2 86.3 32 53 92.9 55 91.0 71.4 98.5 38,028 6.0 61 83.7
8= 22 88.61 138 98.1 110 124 4.5 42.1 80.7 33 51 90.8 52 95.0 70.9 99.2 32,063 5.7 61 81.1
10 6 92.64 138 98.6 113 130 5.6 44.4 86.9 32 55 95.7 51 98.1 71.6 98.2 40,141 5.8 64 85.4
11= 11 91.12 144 94.3 108 125 5.8 44.8 90.4 32 53 93.6 57 87.4 73.2 96.0 32,933 5.8 69 78.5
11= 19 89.56 148 91.8 115 134 5.4 44.9 85.1 32 54 95.1 55 90.5 71.1 98.9 31,131 5.6 71 77.9
13 10 91.53 149 91.4 118 131 6.5 46.0 91.2 32 55 95.3 56 89.4 74.3 94.6 35,356 5.8 69 80.3
14 21 88.65 148 92.0 119 134 5.6 45.6 85.1 32 53 94.0 56 89.4 72.8 96.6 27,713 5.8 77 72.7
15 13 90.93 145 93.5 109 123 5.8 46.1 90.2 31 53 94.0 56 89.4 74.2 94.7 29,764 5.8 66 77.1
16 12 91.07 148 91.6 114 131 6.9 49.0 96.1 33 52 91.4 58 85.4 72.5 97.0 27,154 5.8 86 70.4
17= 16 89.92 148 91.6 108 125 5.1 45.9 86.3 32 55 95.3 53 94.4 72.9 96.4 30,323 5.7 72 76.4
17= 17 89.80 146 93.0 115 133 5.4 45.7 85.1 32 54 94.2 55 91.0 70.3 100.0 32,933 5.6 70 79.5
19 15 90.46 148 91.6 119 135 6.0 46.4 87.9 32 52 93.2 57 86.9 73.0 96.3 38,774 5.6 59 87.4
20 18 89.75 144 94.5 112 128 5.6 45.1 87.4 32 52 92.1 54 91.6 74.0 95.0 32,249 5.8 73 77.0
21 9 91.89 145 93.9 120 137 5.6 42.1 83.8 31 55 96.4 52 96.2 72.3 97.2 50,331 5.8 53 97.2
22 26 85.52 147 92.4 117 136 5.6 44.7 85.6 34 48 86.2 63 79.6 72.0 97.6 21,251 5.9 88 65.1
23= 25 85.60 139 97.4 108 121 5.6 44.2 89.0 40 42 74.0 55 91.0 71.6 98.2 31,690 5.8 77 75.6
23= 28 85.25 144 94.3 116 135 4.5 40.9 77.9 34 50 87.9 55 89.9 73.3 95.9 28,769 5.6 71 76.2
25 29 84.55 146 92.8 124 143 4.0 42.7 73.0 34 51 89.3 57 87.4 72.4 97.1 36,847 5.8 57 85.5
26 27 85.46 148 92.0 126 147 5.4 44.8 81.2 34 50 87.7 60 83.5 73.4 95.8 30,074 5.7 75 75.5
27= 20 88.74 147 92.4 133 155 5.6 42.2 80.2 33 54 92.9 52 95.6 71.6 98.2 41,321 5.6 58 89.7
27= 23 86.95 146 93.2 131 155 4.9 41.5 76.3 32 54 93.6 57 87.4 71.9 97.8 37,282 5.6 62 85.2
27= 24 85.88 142 95.6 116 132 5.6 46.7 86.4 36 45 80.9 63 78.8 75.5 93.1 34,424 5.9 68 79.3
27= 30 81.26 151 90.0 155 174 2.9 38.3 57.4 30 57 100.0 50 100.0 72.1 97.5 25,973 5.7 85 70.3
27= — — 152 89.6 139 156 — 44.0 — 32 53 93.8 69 72.0 72.7 96.7 29,639 5.7 76 74.9

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

Leading with these priorities

Goodyear UltraGrip Performance 3

96.81/ 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.

  • Dry 19% 11%
  • Wet 33% 47%
  • Snow 29% 19%
  • Ice 5% 5%
  • Comfort 5% 2%
  • Value 9% 15%
  • Wet Circle counts for 14.4% of the score but creates 22% of the difference between the tires, because their results in it were far apart.
  • Dry Braking counts for 19% of the score but creates only 11% of the difference, because most tires performed about the same in it.
Every discipline 12
DisciplineWeightingReal impact
Dry Braking 19% 11%
Wet Braking 14.7% 22%
Wet Braking - Concrete 0.3% <1%
Wet Circle 14.4% 22%
Straight Aqua 3.6% 3%
Snow Braking 13.3% 7%
Snow Traction 15.7% 13%
Ice Braking 5% 5%
Noise 5% 2%
Wear 3.3% 9%
Fuel Consumption 3.2% 1%
Abrasion 2.4% 6%

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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