Owners are split on the Goodyear EfficientGrip overall (62.6% average), but the strongest consensus is that it delivers a comfortable ride, good dry grip and worthwhile fuel-efficiency gains. Road noise and tread life are far more variable, with roughly as many owners praising them as criticising them. The most repeated concern is wet performance: around one in five owners specifically complain about weak wet grip, and a similar share report vague steering feel, often linked to soft sidewalls. A smaller but notable group (around one in ten) mention poor puncture resistance, particularly sidewall-related damage.
What owners mention most counted across 133 reviews
Let me begin by saying I have only owned the car for 1 month and it came with some worn out Bridgestone on the front and and worn Michelin's on the rear. I used this as part of the haggle. Handling was unusual to say the least. When you are looking to replace all tires with a potential spend of £500+ you do some research. I had the chance to get 4 Goodyear EfficientGrip's for a very good price and of course you are suspicious. I read reviews, researched prices but had to go for them. I have had them fitted and what a difference, quiet, positive feedback, good handling with the potential of saving some money on fuel as well. As with all tires they are better when warm but I gave them a good thrash on some local country roads the other night and it was like a different car. At this early stage I have little to compare them with on this car but so far I would recommend them. I made a point of noting how the other tires handled before and after the change. I also looked to note the jelly like feel described by other reviewers and in all honesty I cannot feel it. After fitting I checked all tire pressures and set them exactly to Audi's recommended psi and these tires are spot on. I will come back and review these tires next autumn when I have used them for 6 months to report mpg and wear but first impressions count and I am pleased. I think I will take the car out fora Sunday morning thrash just to check them again now:)
Have had these in place of michelin energy saver tires, have now done around 2000 miles now and am very pleased with these tires. Noticeable difference in drive, softer and more smoother than michelins, hard corning is noticeable in comparassion to the michelins, wet grip is as very good, as well as dry grip, no noticable wear yet or difference in fuel consumption. Subject to some reviews on these tires i would deffinatly recommend these tires to anyone.
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these tires came stock with my ford focus 2012. 180bhp but auto gearbox.
handling of my ford was good. good feedback. however, when the rain starts to pour, my ford it terrible!
so my friend begged me to change my tires. i did. i changed my tires to Michelin PS3.
these tires really transformed my car. from a good handling car, it is now brilliant. feedback was fantastic and in the rain, it no longer a hovercraft!!
the EfficientGrip should be called, EfficientCrap. it is terrible.
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Well ive only had these tires for a couple of weeks and they are fine, good grip all the time and road noise seems ok.Not really tried them in the wet yet but dont race about in the wet anyway unless your stupid!Am going to get some more for the back soon.
Its a fairly ideal tire for my fairly unexciting diesel estate. Decent grip (wet grip) - given the kind of tire it is. They lasted 20,000 miles on the front (2L focus estate) of mixed driving. At that stage the rears were about half or two-thirds worn.
I liked them enough to buy another pair at the front.
Traffic light racers should be looking elsewhere TBH - there's a reason I didn't pick these out for our other car (mk4 golf gti).
I bought these tires about 8 months ago and about 30,000km ago.
dry grip is decent.
wet grip is dodgy, aquaplane a few times. and i wasnt even driving quickly.
feedback is non-existant. power steering? maybe
wear is ok, looking at the wear at 30,000km. i think it still has 30% left. which is ok.
comfort is poor or bad. its not the noisiest tire around but it was touted as the quiet tire. So it should really be quieter. my Continental premium contact 2 were much much quieter.
These tires are fitted to the police cars that i drive and i drive cautiously but then when on blue light considerably quicker than most.
Under normar driving i find the tires comfortable but at the same time noisy. it doesnt take much at all to have the tires squeeling around corners even at 30 or 40 mph. They are ok in the wet and in the dry but i wouldnt rate then anywhere near a performance tire.
When pushing the car i find there is very little feedback through the corners and there is definately the jelly like feel that folk talk about. again very noisy but still maintain straight line stability at 120mph. the handling is predictable but at the same time you are predocting that you are not going to have much grip. braking isnt the best and i say that they tires stop me using the braking power in the car to its full potential.
I cant really comment on life or fuel efficiency as i so a lot of my mileage on the limit of grip they do handle reasonably well in the snow compared to other summer tires.
Although they are an all round decent tire i wouldnt buy them for my own car and certainly wouldnt be paying top dollar for them. for general day to day driving they are perfectly fine other than a bit of road noise but this is made worse by having an estate car.
Fitted these on my car this spring.
Replaced them by now because of it's nonexisting roadfeedback og its extreme dullness. The car felt like a big fat piece of jelly.
I belive the jelly-like feel show that the tire is not too safe if you for instans have to react fast to avoid obstacles in the road.
Never again. Really not recommended. Dont waste your money on these tires
I have endured almost 10000 km on these tires before finally replacing them for Vredestein Hi-Trac 2 which is just a complete turnaround, an extreme improvement.
OE on "Ford Direct" Mondeo 10,500 miles on clock. No complaints in the 2,000 miles I have done so far, however I never drive my cars "to the limit". More expensive than the AVON ZV5s I normally buy but cannot get them in the size + XL. Will probably buy again
