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Accelera PHI Owner Reviews

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What owners say summarised from 159 reviews

Driver feedback on the Accelera PHI is highly polarised, but overall trends lean cautious-to-negative despite the low purchase price. Many owners find it acceptable or even good in the dry and like the value, comfort and low noise for a budget tire, with some reporting decent mileage. However, a large share of reviews describe very poor wet grip and wet braking (often called unpredictable or dangerous), along with frequent complaints about vague steering feel and occasional balance/out-of-round vibration issues.

What owners mention most counted across 158 reviews

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Owner ratings averaged from 166 ratings

  • Owner score 55%
  • Dry Grip 67%
  • Wear 65%
  • Comfort 58%
  • Road Feedback 52%
  • Handling 51%
  • Wet Grip 44%

Accelera PHI Reviews - Page 4

Score spread across 153 written reviews
35%
Member
This tire is hopeless in the wet and no grip around corners ..almost dangerous. Wouldn't buy it again.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 4
  • Wet Grip 2
  • Wear 5
  • Comfort 5
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 883
19%
Member
Bought my X5 with these tires on the rears with 6mm of tread. Had never heard of them before and on my cars I always fit Continental Rainsport 3s wherever possible with their outstanding grip, wet or dry.
I've done 4,000 miles now and the tread is down to 3mm already so not at all long lasting. In the dry they are reasonable but pushing on at a roundabout and the rear never seems planted.
However, in the wet it is a different story. They are absolutely lethal with virtually no grip even on a moderately wet surface. Taking a mini roundabout at 15mph and the back end slid across the road no problem at all. White van man behind had to take avoiding action.
Fitting Avon ZX7s shortly.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 5
  • Wet Grip 1
  • Road Feedback 1
  • Handling 1
  • Wear 1
  • Comfort 3
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 750
47%
Member
  • BMW M3
  • 255/40 R18
  • 100 miles
  • A Combination of Roads
  • Average
These are the tires on the courtesy wheels put on my 2001 M3 while my own wheels are refurbed. They are fine in the dry, but in the wet they are lethal. Even in the damp. They have absolutely no business on a powerful car, or a car that you want to go round a corner on wet roads without taking a chunk out of the nearest kerb or ditch. In the wet an oiltanker has a shorter stopping distance. These are grade A ditchfinders and they are quite simply dangerous.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 7
  • Wet Grip 2
  • Road Feedback 7
  • Handling 4
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 908

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54%
Member
  • Suzuki Swift
  • 185/55 R16 V
  • 10,000 miles
  • A Combination of Roads
  • Average
I drive a 2017 Suzuki Swift RS (ZC13S) My driving style is a mix of decent and aggressive. Roads here (Sri Lanka) are bad. just bad. I had to replace 2 tires as my front OEM Bridgestone Ecopia EP150 got damaged sidewalls (my fault, drove with low air pressure). The Accelera PHI-R were the only tires available at that time in the nearest tire shop.
Dry grip is decent and ride is definitely softer than Ecopias. In average speeds they perform well but tend to squeal under hard cornering and feedback is low. Turn-in is not very sharp and under-steers if pushed too hard. Wet grip is decent but I would not recommend driving hard in the rain. Cannot predict when they would give out. Tire noise is less than the ecopias as well.
They seem to be durable as after 15,000KM the thread depth maybe 50% remaining. But would not buy again. Good for people looking for a budget tire to drive decently. Do not buy If you drive hard.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 6
  • Wet Grip 5
  • Road Feedback 5
  • Handling 5
  • Wear 7
  • Comfort 6
  • Buy again 4
Helpful 751
Member
  • Audi
  • 255/35 R19
  • 20,000 miles
  • Mostly Motorways
  • Average
I switched to Accelera PHi from Hankook Vensus purely on budget, prior to that i had the Bridgestone Potenza R003 in 18 inch tire. The Accelera performed reasonable, considering I do 800km per week. it is definitly a hard compound tire and the noise is pronounced at 110km/ph on both concrete and bituman roads. all up 30,000km got out of them, that is 5-10k kilometers better than Bridgestone and Hankook.
71%
Member
F10 light on the back for 275 width standard rubber, shows up poor tires very quickly in the cold and wet pulling away at junctions
Bought as an emergency expected to have Sport Maxx repaired (non runflat) but poor batch from Mytires splitting and age cracking so had to fit the Accellera. Expected to find the nearest ditch, spent the first few days driving very carefully, but after careful testing I can confirm this tire to be surprisingly OK, similar is not slightly better grip than the SportMaxx, not as good as Hankook evo2,but better than the Conti (5?) runflats it came with from the factory.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 8
  • Wet Grip 7
  • Road Feedback 7
  • Handling 7
  • Wear 7
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 7
Helpful 676
46%
Member
  • BMW 435d
  • 255/30 R20 W
  • 20,000 miles
  • A Combination of Roads
Don't even turn the key if it's wet.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 7
  • Wet Grip 1
  • Road Feedback 6
  • Handling 3
  • Wear 8
  • Comfort 6
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 737
31%
Member
Shocking tires in the wet - buy something else if there is any chance of rain anywhere near where you are going. Volvo's are pretty sure footed, but my V70 just understeers across the road when it is wet at 20 mph. Really, these are dangerous :-(
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 6
  • Wet Grip 2
  • Road Feedback 3
  • Handling 2
  • Wear 4
  • Comfort 4
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 773
39%
Member
Tires worn out after 8 - 8.5k miles. Terrible wet grip. Occasionally car would start to skid on large roundabouts at low/moderate speeds. Cheap but would definitely pay more next time for something better
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 7
  • Wet Grip 3
  • Road Feedback 4
  • Handling 4
  • Wear 2
  • Comfort 5
  • Buy again 2
Helpful 717
33%
Member
  • Jaguar XF
  • 255/35 R20 W
  • 1,000 miles
  • Mostly Motorways
  • Average
These tires are terrible in the wet. The worst tire I have ever had. Had other budget brands in the past but others in my experience are far superior (120,000 miles of same car ownership).
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 6
  • Wet Grip 1
  • Road Feedback 3
  • Handling 2
  • Wear 5
  • Comfort 5
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 660
43%
Member
Ok, 1st ok all I am based in Egypt. I have a W204 C300 Merc AMG Edition 1. Heavy car with 235hp RWD staggered setting and adaptive sport suspension. 225/45R17 Front & 255/40R17 Rear. These tires were newly fitted to my car when I bought it second hand with 30K miles on the clock. Handled accaptably on decent driving. But wore pretty quick we complete deformation on the rear pair with some kickdowns and speeding. I do a lot of long travels along well paved roads. Like 3 hours at 110-120 MPH. Caused awful wandering due to side wall deformation and the steel lining broke completely and caused lateral pull that took a lot of time by the dealer to discover it was actually the tires causing it. Will never fit them again. Never.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 4
  • Wet Grip 3
  • Road Feedback 7
  • Handling 7
  • Wear 6
  • Comfort 2
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 808
84%
Member
These tires were as good regarding dry grip as tires twice the cost and I drive hard . Wet grip is also equally good , you'd have to be an idiot to lose the car in the wet . I cannot understand anyone calling them dangerous . Handling in dry and wet is as good as the setup of your car ie. correct tire pressures , camber , castor and toe . No different in my case to the AVONS just taken off which were twice the cost . Comfort is about suspension so cannot comment really , just a tad stiff as am running uprated springs and shocks . The feedback is excellent and I will buy again .
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 9
  • Wet Grip 8
  • Road Feedback 9
  • Handling 9
  • Wear 7
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 773
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