Goodyear EfficientGrip Compact 2

Done a few more miles on these and it has revealed some weaknesses! While my initial impressions in the wet were very favorable, I have found the tires are very prone to slipping on certain surfaces, mainly things like painted lines and manhole covers when wet or damp - I've found it much easier to trigger wheelspin and the traction control when e.g. accelerating and turning out of a junction with yellow box markings in the rain.
It's just a very stark contrast as, on normal tarmac in wet or dry, it's normally much better mannered. Aside from that particular anomaly the tires are still performing very well. I've since been driving in a mix of dry and extreme wet including some roads with deep surface water and flooding up to the wheel rim and they've continued to display great aquaplaning resistance. That said I can see why people have given it a lessor rating in the dry as the grip doesn't seems to improve much as it gets drier, but for me that consistency has stopped me from getting too overconfident in the dry and letting that carry over into the wet, which was an issue I had with the Michelins I previously had!

Literally just had these fitted to replace some Michelin Primacy 4's and then immediately driven around all day in a continuous torrential downpour, so not much experience with them yet, and ordinarily I'd hold off dropping a review so this is more of a pre-review, but I've been so impressed I had to drop a mini-review to say the wet weather performance of this tire is simply amazing compared to the Primacy 4's - Where the Michelins tended to lose grip when turning a bit quickly in the wet, these grip and grip and are far more sure-footed - Situations that would have provoked understeer and traction control kicking in on the Michelins were just taken in its stride with these. Even having one side of the car being dragged through surface water on the gutter-side didn't provoke slip or even that pull to one side I'd normally feel in that situation, not even a hint of aquaplaning. I am seriously impressed with how much better these are in the wet than the Primacys!

Look forward to seeing how it performs in the dry, but if it's anything to this level these will be good tires to live with! To be fair these have a full 8mm of tread-depth while the Michelins were down to 2-3mm, but even when new the Primacy4s were never this good in the wet!