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2025 Autobild Winter Tire Test

Tested size
225/40 R18
Tires tested
20
Disciplines
16
Test vehicle
BMW M135i

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

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within category · 10.15% of overall score

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within category · 9.8% of overall score

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within category · 2.45% of overall score

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within category · 2.45% of overall score

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within category · 6.9% of overall score

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within category · 6.9% of overall score

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within category · 2.5% of overall score

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Fine-tune disciplines 3
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within category · 3.7% of overall score

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within category · 2.7% of overall score

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within category · 3.6% 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 ↓mph ↑ft ↓mph ↑s ↓mph ↑ft/s² ↑ft ↓lbf ↑mph ↑ft/s² ↑Points ↑dB ↓miles ↑Price/1000 ↓kg/t ↓
1 2 95.82 140 72.5 99.9 170 51.8 12.12 46.7 7.3 97.5 91 562 36.8 9.2 96.5 7.3 65.0 95.6 29,310 13.36 8.70 79.9
2 1 95.94 149 71.1 95.7 171 50.0 12.56 46.0 7.7 95.6 90 579 36.4 9.8 98.5 8.0 65.2 99.8 31,615 10.02 8.58 87.8
3= 6 95.16 147 72.6 97.4 179 50.4 12.46 47.5 8.0 95.1 92 558 36.4 9.5 96.5 7.3 66.8 94.3 32,933 11.32 8.54 87.2
3= 7 95.08 146 71.1 96.8 172 51.3 12.43 47.2 7.6 96.6 93 560 36.7 9.5 96.6 6.7 65.7 91.3 27,663 9.66 8.70 83.7
5 3 95.79 150 71.3 95.7 167 52.1 12.04 47.5 8.7 99.6 94 542 36.4 9.3 94.9 7.3 65.6 95.2 32,933 10.94 9.16 85.6
6 4 95.72 145 71.4 97.2 182 50.7 12.63 47.5 8.9 95.2 92 576 36.8 9.6 97.7 7.3 66.3 94.6 32,274 9.24 8.90 89.1
7 5 95.37 143 72.4 98.6 182 50.2 12.45 47.4 8.6 95.0 92 567 36.3 9.7 97.3 8.0 65.9 99.3 28,981 13.08 8.02 82.5
8= 13 94.18 150 71.8 96.0 175 50.3 12.38 46.6 7.6 95.5 94 543 35.9 9.1 94.0 6.7 66.7 90.6 29,639 9.64 8.09 88.4
8= 14 94.10 151 71.5 95.5 180 50.2 12.62 44.4 6.9 93.3 93 556 36.0 9.1 94.9 7.3 65.2 95.5 27,993 8.44 7.77 90.9
10 10 94.55 145 70.9 97.1 177 52.4 12.11 46.6 7.0 96.5 94 532 36.7 9.4 94.6 8.0 65.6 99.5 29,969 12.86 9.05 79.9
11 17 93.56 151 72.0 95.9 179 51.0 12.52 47.4 8.1 95.5 95 548 35.5 9.2 93.9 6.7 67.6 90.0 27,334 11.14 8.15 82.8
12 8 94.77 150 71.0 95.6 185 49.9 12.67 48.0 8.2 93.9 90 586 36.8 9.9 99.7 7.3 66.3 94.6 28,322 11.19 8.72 81.6
13 19 91.70 154 71.1 94.3 185 51.1 12.30 44.6 6.9 93.7 94 559 35.8 9.1 94.6 6.7 66.9 90.5 23,382 13.29 9.31 71.2
14 12 94.28 155 70.5 93.5 186 50.3 12.52 47.8 8.3 94.3 89 589 36.5 9.9 99.7 6.7 66.5 90.7 27,993 11.10 8.72 81.3
15 9 94.66 143 71.3 98.0 189 49.6 12.69 44.7 6.8 91.4 93 573 36.0 9.3 96.3 7.3 65.5 95.2 32,274 7.32 9.07 94.1
16= 11 94.50 141 71.3 98.7 171 51.1 12.17 47.2 8.3 97.8 97 529 34.4 8.6 90.2 7.3 67.0 94.1 30,957 9.63 8.65 87.6
16= 15 93.99 155 70.1 93.4 178 50.6 12.55 47.2 7.2 94.5 93 579 36.1 9.4 97.0 7.3 66.3 94.6 27,993 9.99 8.48 84.2
18 16 93.64 154 71.1 94.3 189 49.8 12.93 46.9 8.4 92.6 92 570 36.0 9.8 97.5 8.0 66.7 98.7 27,334 10.00 8.90 81.9
19 18 92.98 145 71.6 97.5 183 49.8 12.66 44.5 6.6 92.3 94 526 35.8 9.2 93.3 7.3 65.9 94.9 28,651 7.81 10.37 84.5
20 20 91.33 147 72.3 97.4 183 50.7 12.33 44.2 6.7 93.5 97 520 34.6 9.0 91.1 8.0 65.0 100.0 21,077 15.04 9.03 67.8
Ref
Reference Budget
— — 153 69.0 93.3 231 44.8 13.77 40.1 4.5 79.6 94 562 34.9 8.8 93.5 — 66.1 — — — 9.90 —
Ref
Reference Summer
— — 124 73.3 106.8 157 52.1 12.07 47.8 9.6 102.1 168 56 — 5.9 — — 64.9 — — — 8.54 —

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

Leading with these priorities

Dunlop Winter

95.94/ 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 Weighting 20% Real impact 12%
  • Wet Weighting 35% Real impact 35%
  • Snow Weighting 30% Real impact 26%
  • Comfort Weighting 5% Real impact 4%
  • Value Weighting 10% Real impact 23%
  • Curved Aquaplaning counts for 2.5% of the score but creates 9% of the difference between the tires, because their results in it were far apart.
  • Dry Handling counts for 10% of the score but creates only 3% of the difference, because most tires performed about the same in it.
Every discipline 16
DisciplineWeightingReal impact
Dry Braking 10% 9%
Dry Handling 10% 3%
Wet Braking 10.2% 13%
Wet Handling 10.2% 5%
Wet Circle 9.8% 6%
Straight Aqua 2.5% 2%
Curved Aquaplaning 2.5% 9%
Snow Braking 6.9% 4%
Snow Traction 8.1% 11%
Snow Handling 8.1% 4%
Snow Slalom 6.9% 8%
Subj. Comfort 2.5% 3%
Noise 2.5% 1%
Wear 3.7% 9%
Value 2.7% 9%
Rolling Resistance 3.6% 5%

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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