Michelin CrossClimate 2 Reviews - Page 2

Had these fitted 3 years ago and since then done roughly 5500 miles. Not a lot of mileage, but then that's because of my circumstances. (I'm retired and don't do the 1200 mile round trips to and from the continent, 6 times a year. Michelin have been my go to car tire, since I first had the MXL and MXT on my Volvo.)
The wear has been negligible, gone from 7 mm new to about 6.5 mm today.
Haven't had any snow to speak of here in the UK, but a bit icy one or two days.
Last Christmas went to stay up country, mostly motorway, a trip of 130 miles or so. Not far but the rain was horrendous, it didn't stop at all, roads were flooded and the spray evil. We returned two days later and got similar weather, torrential rain all the way back.
The tires were great, never thought for one moment that I would loose control. They're quieter than the previous Turanza, which I never thought were safe when cornering, especially in the wet.

I've been using Crossclimate 2 tires on my 2019 Nissan Leaf SL Plus for the last couple of years. It's the car my daughter was driving and she would constantly complain about wheel slip on wet roads. I really only drove the car in the afternoons when the roads had dried and I saw no issue with the tires, they're great on dry roads. (This car was left parked in bad snowy weather, so I don't really have an ice/snow impression.)

That daughter is off to college now, so I've been driving this car some mornings and I feel very bad about ignoring her complaints. On something as simple as a steep road, you can feel the car's traction control trying to stop the wheels from spinning. Any sort of wet road driving, even something as simple as driving out of a carwash, it a dicey proposition. It seems though that it's an issue of the tires not being able to stand up to the torque coming from the electric motor and goes to just two tires, braking doesn't seem that bad, but all four wheels are slowing the car then.

Given that Seattle is heading into wet weather, I'm getting rid of these tires now even though they probably could last another 20,000 miles.

These 235/55R19 Michelin CC 2 tires were on a 2023 Nissan Rogue Platinum AWD from October 2025 until this September 2026 when the vehicle was sold. They were driven for a total of almost 5900 km, or 3666 miles. Let's put this in context: From June of 2023 until November 04 2025 I drove the vehicle with the OEM tires through all weather, including our long Edmonton Alberta winters. Never had a problem. Typically the worst road conditions are at the busy intersections where we get a lot of ice build up from spinning tires taking off from a light. The wife also had a 2023 Rogue Platinum AWD and I put Nokian WRG4 all weather tires on her car in October 2023. The theory was that if we got really bad winter weather or had to go somewhere where we might need great traction, we could take her vehicle. It was a good theory but turns out I never had to take her vehicle as I was quite comfortable with the traction of the OEM Dunlop Grand Trek PT21 tires. Last year she traded up to a 2025 Murano Platinum. Unfortunately she has 21 inch rims on that vehicle and I couldn't find all-weather tires in her size. That's why I then put the CC 2 tires on my Rogue. If the weather got bad, she could take the Rogue. Once again, the OEM tires served her well all through the winter. Focusing on the Michelin CC 2 tires, I thought they were marginally louder than the Dunlop tires on the highway but didn't notice any difference around town. Never noticed a difference in fuel economy, either. I'm more of a relaxed driver so I also never picked up on any appreciable handling difference between the Rogue OEM Dunlop tires and the CC 2. But I can say that we did have a real test at Christmas Eve. Edmonton caught a snow dump and it was still snowing when we went to my brother's for his annual open house. His house is on a street with a very steep hill so I was wondering how we would make out. Turns out we were just fine. Parallel parking was a bit tough as you couldn't tell where the sidewalk was because there was so much snow. I had to back up to get better aligned with the sidewalk. No issues with traction. I do believe that AWD helped. When I sold the tires, they had 5877 km or 3652 miles on them and still looked perfect with over 10 mm tread depth left. My verdict: I would buy certainly buy premium all-weather tires for an AWD vehicle for our tough northern Alberta winters, and the Michelin Cross Climate 2 would definitely be considered. For a FWD or RWD vehicle I would go to dedicated winter tires for that extra bit of traction for the 5 month winters we enjoy here. I've included pictures that I took for my ad when I sold the tires so you can see how well they held up.

From my experience, a CrossClimate 2 used year-round for 2–3 years can become utterly useless in serious winter conditions, despite looking perfectly healthy and having plenty of tread left. My suspicion is: compound hardens substantially with age, perhaps accelerated by months of summer UV exposure.

Tires: Michelin CrossClimate 2, 195/65 R15 95V.
Car: family minivan (MPV in European terms).
Location: Central Europe.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember the exact mileage where the tires started to be unusable in winter conditions, so I can’t provide much hard data. But the tires were 2–3 years old and still had plenty of tread left — significantly more than the 4 mm legal minimum here for winter tires.

After 2–3 years, in proper winter conditions (no mountains, just lowlands, but snow and some ice), they didn’t simply become “a bit worse”. They became genuinely dangerous. Braking performance was extremely poor and steering grip was so weak that I simply could not trust the car on snow or ice.

What I really don’t understand is why these tires receive so much praise, not only from technical magazines — where I can understand it, since they presumably test brand-new or relatively young tires, and those really are very good — but also from ordinary end users.

I’m done with them. I won’t buy CrossClimates again.

I can see how they might be useful for someone doing very high mileage and replacing them every two years, ideally before the winter season. But if the expectation is that a set of all-season tires should provide dependable winter performance for several years, my experience with CrossClimate 2 has been long-term failure, also even I had been very amazed after the first winter by the very good winter performance of thy tire.

Have used the cross climate range of tires for many years, across several family and work cars, the cross climate 2 have been excellent again. Excellent grip in the dry and wet. I don`t recall any stopping / aquaplaning issues. Not a good handling as a summer tire. Very little use in snow, but performed great when needed.

Have just replaced two front tires after 45,000 miles of use, with cross climate 3. I expect to get 50,000 miles from the CC2 rears. To be fair, they haven`t been driven particularly hard, and there was plenty of dual carriageway / motorway driving. Wear rate did seem to increase over the last few months of summer 2026, but not surprising given the temperatures we`ve had.

The Cross Climates may cost a few pounds more than some other all season tires, but given the mileage they get, I think they are hard to beat for value.
I`m expecting good things from the CC3 tires and would be very reluctant to use any other tires now.