Dry grip and dry handling are the clearest shared positives for the Dunlop SP Sport Maxx. Tread life is mixed, with longer-term accounts ranging from early replacement to substantial mileage, although wear complaints outnumber praise overall. Around a quarter of owners criticise noise, while a smaller but sizeable group finds it quiet. Wet-grip opinion is almost evenly divided, so neither strong wet confidence nor poor wet grip is a consistent verdict. Most reviews do not identify life stage, and repeat reviewers move in both directions, giving no clear shared ageing trend. Comfort is also mixed, with criticism somewhat more common than praise.
What owners mention most counted across 142 reviews
I had a 4wheel alignment when these tires were fitted. For motorway / straight line driving, without sudden lane changes these tires have been good and quiet. However, with a rear wheel drive car, with high torque I've found these tires to break traction faster in both wet and dry than previous Continental Contact Sport 5. Wet handling has not provided the same confidence as the Continentals too. Comfortable tires on a smooth good surface, but you have to be alert if you want to make quicker maneuvers on the motorway or on fast A / B roads. I'd say performance has been consistent over the life time of the tire, so not noticing reduced performance with wear. Sadly I'll be happy to swap these soon for another brand soon.
Extremely dissatisfied with the quality of this product. Only had the tires 3years. Having to change as tread has worn away, only driven 6500 miles in the last 2 years as the car was parked while working from home during covid. Do not recommend this product for Audi Q5 drivers.
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These tires were very good brand new. But in time lost way more performance in dry than any of my previous tires. It's still about 5mm left and I'm losing confidence in these to the point that I was way more confident in driving my winter tires in dry in spring when it was about 10-15 degrees Celsius and tires are the same age.
Good thing they are losing grip quite progressively so there is no snap, but losing it way to early.
Nope, never again.
43%
Member
Skoda
215/45 R16
37 miles
Mostly Town
Easy Going
These tires came with my 2015 Skoda Fabia, very unsporty car in SEL trim so cannot say much about the dry performance/feedback these tires provide as it's generally a sloppy A-B car.
I will focus my review on the older set, which are original to the car and are now 6 years old - They were originally 3 years old when I bought the car and have been exceedingly noisy, and after nearly 5 years have started to crack on the surface of the tire, and longer cracks on the tire wall.
More expectedly, the tires now loose grip on roundabouts in the wet as they are 6 years old with 4.5mm of tread remaining. They were fitted to the rear of the car for 28,000 miles and have been on the front for roughly 9,000 miles - so as for mileage wear these have been excellent, but age wear has been poor.
The fresher set which are now 4 years old, are yet to crack and have always been much quieter. No idea how many miles these have been on the car for.
I would not recommend these tires only due to the excessive noise and cracking on the original set, and reading the reviews cracking seems to be common after only a few years.
Jaguar XF Sportbrake 3.0S, currently 68k with full dealer history.
Replaced all four tires with properly marked and recommended for Jaguar, Dunlop SP's.
They are ABSOLUTE RUBBISH ! DO NOT BUY !!
They have done about 6K in 18 months and have severe cracks around every tread channel which were noticed about 4 months ago.
The tire dealer who put in the complaint was told the cracks are only superficial and not in any way a hazard or deflect from the performance of the tire and the car should be driven as normal. This is very hard to believe given the apparent depth of the cracking! They certainly don't inspire confidence in using the 270bhp we bought the car for and are being changed for Pirelli's this week.
56%
Member
Skoda
225/45 R17
12,000 miles
A Combination of Roads
Easy Going
These tires (205/45R16) have all cracked on the edge of the first inside tread groove after 12K miles, even though the car is in regular use. Very poor indeed.
Easy driving on overall nice roads and it's now time to replace all four tires after 59,500 km. I've read a lot of reviews about rough driving on Run Flats but I bought mine from a friend and could not tell the difference since. I'm still contemplating whether to go Run Flats or normal. But I will not be buying these Dunlops again because of a few times I've slipped on conditions It should not have slipped. I would say grip is the weakest point of these tires based on my experience.
Original equipment on my Seat. Very low wearing: after 4 years and 55000 km of (quiet) driving on far from smooth roads, I can still rely on 30% of tread before reaching the marker, and rubber shows no cracks at all. Very good grip on dry, not as much on wet. More sporty than comfy. I'll change them for aging, not for wearing, and I'll stay with Dunlop.
Driving in dry conditions and little to no issues as soon as it's wet they are dangerous! Exiting islands and car loses grip and actually slides on all 4 wheels! Tire wear is hopeless 30% worn in 3000 miles only, car just had first MOT so mileage exact
Using them on lexus RX300 2004 4x4
Very quiet pattern, comfort is noticeable. But, feel a bit of vibrations as need to have them again balanced.
this summer did not almost rain, can not provide valuable feedback on water.
