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Admiral 712

Touring Summer

The Admiral 712 is a Touring Summer tire designed to be fitted to Passenger Cars.

The quick answer

Owners say 43% from 7 owner reviews 17% would buy again Read the reviews
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Built from every independent test result and vetted owner review we hold for this tire - the evidence is all further down the page. Data updated September 2013.

  • 7owner reviews
  • 70,200miles driven
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Tire Reviews Score

Admiral 712

6.1/10

From owner reviews only: no measured test results yet.

  • Limited Confidence
  • 7 owner reviews

How this score is built

Better than Weight
Independent testsNo measured test results yet – 0%
Owner reviews7 owner reviews · rated 43% 4% 32%
Typical tireWhere every score starts before its own data counts – 68%
Combined 31% 6.1

A fixed curve turns the combined figure into the 0 to 10 score, so roughly the top 10% of a group score 9 or more.

Confidence

  1. Limited
  2. Medium
  3. High

Owner reviews decide 32% of this score. The other 68% is the typical starting point, and it shrinks as more reviews arrive.

Scored on owner reviews alone, a tire is High once the reviews decide 90% or more, and Medium from 70%. Anything less is Limited: expect the number to move as reviews arrive.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How comfortable and quiet are the Admiral 712?
Owners rate the Admiral 712 4.1 out of 10 for comfort and noise across 6 reviews.
How well do the Admiral 712 wear, according to owners?
Owners rate the Admiral 712 5.1 out of 10 for wear across 6 reviews. 1 of those reviews come from owners past 10,000 miles, and the typical review covers 5,000 miles.
Would owners buy the Admiral 712 again?
17% of owners say they would buy the Admiral 712 again, based on the 6 owner reviews that answered the question. 17% of them gave it the highest possible answer.
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Admiral 712 Owner Reviews

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What owners say

Across 7 owner ratings the Admiral 712 averages 43%. Owners rate Wear highest at 5.1 out of 10 and Wet Grip lowest at 3.9. 1 of those reviews come from owners past 10,000 miles. 0% of owners score it 70% or better.

Owner ratings averaged from 7 ratings

  • Owner score 43%
  • Wear 51%
  • Dry Grip 50%
  • Road Feedback 47%
  • Handling 43%
  • Comfort 41%
  • Wet Grip 39%

Featured reviews

Most helpful 31%

“Without doubt the WORST tires I have ever had on any car. Had these fitted at £45 a wheel (all in). I know thats cheap, but I still expect a tire to be able to hold its own when dry and in a straight line. At the time...”

  • MG MGF NON VVC
  • 4,000 miles
Read full review → 708 found this helpful
Most critical 31%

“Cheap and very nasty. These were on the back of my car when I bought it. They are easily the noisiest tires I've ever had. In fact they were so noisy that I actually replaced my rear wheel bearings thinking they were at...”

  • Ford Mondeo
  • 40,000 miles
Read full review → 698 found this helpful

All 6 Admiral 712 reviews

Score spread across 6 written reviews
32%
Member
Wet grip is terrible, they nearly get you killed.

A cheap terrible tire, the khumo 712 that this is a copy of was a reasonable the.

Simply the worst !
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 2
  • Wet Grip 1
  • Road Feedback 3
  • Handling 3
  • Wear 6
  • Comfort 4
Helpful 640
31%
Member
My Mechanic installed 4 tires on my Saab. The front tire broke a bead only months after install. The car was hopping up and down until I replaced the tire.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 5
  • Wet Grip 2
  • Road Feedback 4
  • Handling 4
  • Wear 4
  • Comfort 2
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 595
31%
Member
Without doubt the WORST tires I have ever had on any car.

Had these fitted at £45 a wheel (all in). I know thats cheap, but I still expect a tire to be able to hold its own when dry and in a straight line.

At the time I had a RWD 130BHP MGF and these were put on the rear. After less than 4000 miles they had just 3mm of tread left which is astonishingly poor - I could understand it if they were a very soft compound on a powerful, heavy RWD but 65bhp a wheel is not that much on a car weighing 1000kg.

They span in the dry, the span in the wet (managed snow ok for some unknown reason), they aquaplaned like mad in anything other than a 1mm deep puddle. They lost traction and nearly span me out on a roundabout at 9 mph, 9!!!

Noise was not too bad and to be fair they did feel ok when driving around town in the dry with a smooth ride.

WHAT EVERY YOU DO - DO NOT TOUCH THESE WITH A BARGE POLE LET ALONE YOUR ALLOYS
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 3
  • Wet Grip 1
  • Road Feedback 4
  • Handling 4
  • Wear 2
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 708

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39%
Member
Tires came with the car. I have done just under 30 000km's with little wear. Very noisey - Tire compound ver hard. Tires shudder under hard cornering. Unsure in the wet. Will be replacing these with NT5000's
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 6
  • Wet Grip 6
  • Road Feedback 4
  • Handling 1
  • Wear 8
  • Comfort 1
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 593
31%
Member
  • Ford Mondeo
  • 205/55 R16
  • 40,000 miles
  • Mostly Motorways
  • Easy Going
Cheap and very nasty.

These were on the back of my car when I bought it. They are easily the noisiest tires I've ever had. In fact they were so noisy that I actually replaced my rear wheel bearings thinking they were at fault. One of them was also off balance despite being done three times at different garages.
When I replaced them with new Michelin Energys the car was transformed to what it should always have been.

My driving style has always been steady rather than fast, so grip has never been a problem. I would definitely never use these again.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 4
  • Wet Grip 4
  • Road Feedback 4
  • Handling 4
  • Wear 4
  • Comfort 1
  • Buy again 1
Helpful 698
34%
Member
when i bought my car in JAN 10, the previous owner had put these tires on the front, with about 50% usage,
I thought they were an ok tire, however after 5-6 months later it started getting sloppy, and the traction control kicked in more often ,even at slow speeds!
i carried on with them as it went thought a VW service fine in AUG 10 but "all needed replacing soon".
As winter came i just forgot about them and got used to it.. until the snow hit the UK and my car was absolutely useless.. cutting a long story short i had them replaced in jan 11 with horrified faces when they took them off, the whole inside of the tire had shredded, and the inner wall showing through, and could of blown out any day. very lucky!!

my driving i would class as average, with the occasional pedal to the metal, but shocked how quick they wore down in under a year! BAD

These tires should not be for front wheel drive cars with a high bhp. they should be suited to 1.1-1.6 only!! they cant handle anything above!
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 5
  • Wet Grip 3
  • Road Feedback 4
  • Handling 4
  • Wear 2
  • Comfort 4
  • Buy again 2
Helpful 571
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