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Dunlop Winter Sport 5 Reviews

Dunlop Winter Sport 5 Owner Reviews

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What owners say summarised from 39 reviews

Drivers largely praise the Dunlop Winter Sport 5 for outstanding snow and ice traction, strong wet grip in cold conditions, predictable handling, good comfort/low noise (for a winter tire), and excellent tread life. A minority report softer sidewalls and reduced dry performance or understeer as temperatures rise, with a few notes on noise increase over time and isolated quality/balance issues. Overall sentiment is strongly positive, with most buyers willing to repurchase.

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Owner ratings averaged from 47 ratings

  • Owner score 83%
  • Snow Grip 91%
  • Wear 87%
  • Wet Grip 85%
  • Comfort 84%
  • Dry Grip 83%
  • Ice Grip 82%
  • Road Feedback 79%
  • Handling 79%

Dunlop Winter Sport 5 Reviews - Page 4

Score spread across 39 written reviews
75%
Member
Driven 2k miles , most of this in dry. But now here are rainy and snowy days, and for now this tires are great. And when the temperature goes down the tire gets better and better .
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 7
  • Wet Grip 8
  • Road Feedback 8
  • Handling 7
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 8
Helpful 565
85%
Member
Recently bought these to replace some worn out Falken Eurowinter 439, these were ok, but felt more like an all season than a winter tire.

So first impressions of the Dunlops, I did a few hundred gentle miles to get them scrubbed in so they are now ready for action. It's only just started getting cold and they are noticeably getting better the colder it gets (like all winter tires)

The warmish October and November haven't given me any concerns, they work just fine. Only done about 2000 miles so far so no discernible wear.

They are fairly noisy (the Falkens were very quiet)and sound like a landrover with military tires fitted. At around 60-70 mph they hum like a shot wheel bearing. No biggie though, I just turn the radio up!

I will report back after some more extensive usage when the Daily Fail 'worst winter in 50 years' hits us
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 10
  • Wet Grip 10
  • Road Feedback 7
  • Handling 8
  • Comfort 6
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 547
90%
Member
Had the dunlop winter sport 4d last year and were great! Changed car so changed tires, the car was on pirelli p6000 summer tires, put the winter sport 5 on and the car is tranformed, better ride, more grip and is so much better to drive although there is slightly less feedback but probably due to size difference. Driven on black ice/ frosty roads and was like tarmac, no slipping or spinning. Heavy water and floods didn't feel any aqua planing unlike the pirellis. Basically an all round excellent tire and if they're like the predecessor they will be excellent in snow!
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 9
  • Wet Grip 9
  • Road Feedback 8
  • Handling 8
  • Wear 9
  • Comfort 10
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 546

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97%
Member
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Bought these tire brand new, there wasn't much out there interms of reviews etc for these when I bought them (Nov 2015).

Tires them selves are very good looking. Driving on them in both dry and wet seems very good. I have excellent confidence in the tires in all conditions. So far though I have not had a chance to try them in their element of very cold weather, so snow and ice performance I cannot comment on. That being said I'm glad I have bought them after some scary moments on summer tires in my F30 last year in snow/ice I feel much safer going into winter on these tires.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 10
  • Wet Grip 10
  • Road Feedback 8
  • Handling 10
  • Wear 10
  • Comfort 10
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 398
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