The Dunlop SP Sport 01 receives its clearest owner praise for dry grip, handling and tread life, with later-life accounts including substantial mileage. Wear is not universally liked, but favorable mentions outnumber complaints by more than two to one. Road noise is the main recurring drawback, criticised in nearly three in ten reviews, and some end-of-life accounts describe it becoming louder. Wet grip is evenly divided between positive and negative mentions, so it is less dependable as a point of recommendation than dry performance. Ride comfort is also split, while steering feedback leans positive without the same agreement as dry handling.
What owners mention most counted across 95 reviews
Covered 40,000 now on full second set of tires and replacing rear tires for third time. Car is an asutomatic and slips in the wet which I thnk accounts for the wear on the rear tires.
Mine have done 50,000 miles on a 3.0L R Subaru Outback which has been pushed at times.
With these tires I have followed a Toyota Land Cruiser up a steep muddy back which the Toyota struggled up with BFG ATs!
The alignment was doe when fitted and the have worn very evenly.
A good tire especially at the mileage.
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great tire, when i travel to work a distance of 11 miles, i do it in near peace very little road noise good grip on rounderbout on greasy road just an overall great tires
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Factory fitted tires have performed well in normal summer conditions but were not good in snow/ice etc.They are summer tires and I would strongly suggest a winter tire as soon as the weather closes in. They do what they should do in the conditions they are made for.I have driven the car hard at times with no sign of reaching the tires limits. Mileage so far 24k and still have life left.....expect 30k on the front and a more from the back.
I have done 32000km on these tires. They are very noisy now. The ride quality is very poor, can feel all bumps on the road. Only dry and wet grip is good. I would not suggest these tires at all.
I have been through two sets of these. The first time they lasted 18,000 miles of urban driving and the next time 12,000 with extra urban driving. I found them to be a comfortable tire that lower road noise. They were not too bad in the dry but useless in the wet. Suseptible to aqua planing easily. I agree with other comments here that the faster you go the less grip they offer. They were fine on two cars under 75 bhp but would not use otherwise. Discovered the Uniroyal Rainsport2 there after which surprise surprise had even lower road noise, exceptional road grip and reduced aqua planing. This is an over priced luxury attempt for a summer tire. The run flat version would be the best if you want a run flat tire but you can do better for under the price these are sold at.
While not near the latest top "sports" car tires the feedback and progression make these a DRIVERS tire second to none.
In other words if you have moved beyond the deep breath and white knuckle brigade these could be for you.
had Sp9000's and Sp01's on, the 01's were the best of a bad bunch, my car was heavy and 240BHP was too much for them, the grip was predictable- drive=grip drive. faster=grip on edge. drive fast=no grip just loss of traction. didnt suit my car.
I was diappointed at the wear(28000 and probably 2000 miles left before chnage),as I have had 32K miles from Continental tires on a Range Rover, a much heavier car,Judging by feedback on these, they are probably a good buy currently quoted ?604 for four tires fitted and balanced.
These lasted 31,371 and were down to 3mm across the whole tire, could have probably got another 2-3k out of them. Well priced tires that perform well too although not as good as some tires on here id give them 7/10.
