Across 168 reviews, the Dunlop Sport BluResponse is most often described as a quiet, comfortable summer tire with strong dry braking/handling and very reassuring wet grip and aquaplaning resistance. Many drivers also report low rolling resistance with noticeable fuel-economy benefits. The most common downsides are faster-than-expected tread wear and a soft/weak sidewall feel that can reduce steering precision and, for some, lead to sidewall damage or puncture sensitivity.
What owners mention most counted across 164 reviews
When I first put these on front of the car I was really pleased. Handled well, stopped well in wet and dry, quite. Great, but then I don't push the car and do a fair amount of motorway driving. 17,000miles later and the tires are down to 2-3mm and performance has tailed off in last 1,500 miles. Very disappointed with the rate of wear.
Fantastic tire, does everything you need it too. Quiet, comfortable, plenty of grip, hardly any wear after 10000 miles, ok maybe 1-2mm and that with a very powerful engine. Very Happy
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I already wrote a review for these tires (11/21/2014) after first summer and 8000 miles with these tires. My impressions were then excellent. Now a month and a half after I'm again with summer tires this year and the new 1500 miles my opinion has changed:
During winter, the tires were stored properly in the basement of my house, the temperature inside always is above 10 degr.C.
When installed tires again, I was unpleasantly surprised. The tires were lost 50-60% of their dry and wet braking grip and 20-30% of dry grip when cornering. Especially on rear wheels(which were in front side of the car, first summer and have visibly weared compared with another pair - more than 1mm). Wet cornering grip is still excellent. And the tires are still extremely quiet.
The biggest surprise was fuel consumption of the car - it was decreased with 1 l/100km immediately after exchange of winter tires. Without to change my driving style.
Finally I want to say that the main disadvantage of the tires is that rubber compound getting older quite fast for this price class. With this temps of wearing and with my aggressive style of driving it will be hard to drive these tires another full hot season. In this case is much more better if I buy tires from lower price class and to change them each season. Even cheaper tires are quite good in first season. This is from a financial perspective!
But if I put from opposite side excellent performance and comfort from last summer - it worth all money which I spend for these tires. It st not possible to buy cheaper tires with such a performance.
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Member
Renault
205/55 R16 H
7,000 miles
A Combination of Roads
Average
Poor grip on dry condition. Cornering at high speeds is worse than on my previous tires (Michelin Energy Saver). Also for breaking. I have a insecurity feeling when I'm driving aggressively. Surprisingly, on wet surface they are much better than Michelin Energy Saver. Unfortunately, most of the time I'm driving on dry conditions. As a PRO they are very quiet. Also mileage is good (I would say about the same as Michelin Energy Saver). I'm a little disappointed on these tires. For sure, I won't buy them again.
Bought these today from micheldever tires, instantly noticed the difference with grip and sound. The tires take corners well and seem to grip on to the road nicely when dry, the quietness of the tire is really noticeable.
The only thing I can't comment on it the tire wear and wet grip, but as long as you don't abuse your tires then you should be fine and these look as though they are the real deal.
I previously has Michelin Energy savers and I found these wore down quickly, within a year they were down to 3mm and that's on about 7-8000 miles in the year. I wasn't impressed with those.
My personal choice was either these or the Kumho Ecowing tires & Dunlop were the only ones in stock.
Good choice tire and I am very happy that they have turned out well.
I must say these tires are amazing. Dry grip is fenomenal especially in fast corners as I like to push it to the limit. Wet grip is beyond my expectation, and I must say I experienced some hard braking in the wet and straight aquaplanning and these tires made me confident in my driving skills as they performed brilliantly. Road feedback is good, I always know when to push harder and when not to. As for the wear, I think these tires are not as bad as people are trying to suggest. I managed 15000 kilometers on them and I can surely admit they have enough tread for another 30000 kilometers. It's because I tend to drive using my brains: I drive fast when needed and slowly when I can not go fast. I will buy them again as I was more than pleased with my Dunlop Sport BluResponse tires.
Having read the Civic owners review below I'm glad that I'm not the only one who feels cheated. To call this 'sport' is beyond a joke. I commute 70 miles a day and bought these expecting a compromise between good handling (sport) and economy (blue). While the mpg isn't bad the handling is absolute crap.
Push the car into a bend at anything remotely brisk and the sidewall gives causing the car to under steer badly. Its even worse in the wet and I can only imagine the wet test these were subjected too exclusively involved driving through standing water. Show them a wet corner and you'll wish you hadn't!
They wear quite well, still at 3mm on the front of my Golf after approx 10k miles which, I consider , pretty good and they are quiet compared with other brand economy tires I've tried.
I will start my second review of these brilliant tire whit few refinements:
1. I have Performance version of BluResponse.
2. These are summer tires for use in temperatures above 12 - 15 degree Celsius, and reviews given at the end of January for the tires sounds usuriously, unless if you are not from southern hemisphere.
3. To be able to feel how great are the tires you have to warm it first and not to be afraid of ABS, ESP or traction control assist you.
Ofcource you should make it not on snow or ice.
4. I write this not because I will take some money or I work for Dunlop. It's visibly also of low prise class of my car. But because I'm really impressed by the performance of these tires. And because I was bought tires after read a lot of reviews in this site, and it were exact and wealth enough.
If you are interest in my impressions after 8000 miles, you can read my first review below, given on 21.11.2014 after I was already changed it with my Conti Winter contact TS850, which were also bought thanks of exact information in Tirereviews.co.ukðŸ‘.
