Dont buy these tires if you value your family's saftey extremely dangerous in the wet even front of car will slide they shouldnt be able to sell them got rid of them with 80 percent tread left waste of money

Dangerous on a wet road

Noisy after about 10,000km Rubbish with any moisture on the ground Have decided to chagne after 15,000km due to poor performance

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The weirdest tire I have ever driven on, 75000 km of unbridled weirdness. I threw them on in a pinch to pass the NCT (Irish annual test) for the daily. It was my intention to burn through them relatively quickly and change onto a premium brand again. However, they have gotten to a point where they are so hard that all wet weather grip is gone, yet there is still plenty of tread left. When initially put on the front, they had reasonable grip, feeling was a bit spongey and they were noisy but again, I can't fault the dry grip. Braking distances were decent in the dry but you were living on the edge in the rain. No repeatability in how they behaved whatsoever. Feedback and handling were middle of the road for dry, again wet weather was woeful. I would not recommend these to anyone in an EU country with plenty of rain. Wear is a hard one to score, as I said, tens of thousands of kilometres with minimal wear, but I don't think it is a good thing, I'd take half the life and twice the wet weather performance if possible. Don't have them on any car over 100 kW if you want to be safe when driving fast.

Like other reviews said, noisy tires, if you live where it frequently rains, avoid this tire. It likes dry roads.

Very good and quality looking tires. However when I got them fitted with the alloy rims I have for my car, they tend to be really noisy and the noise level is uncomfortable at freeway speed. I wouldn't buy them again