Owners generally rate the Michelin Primacy 4 as a quiet, comfortable touring tire with strong dry grip, with 113 positive reviews out of 173 and an average score of 73.5%. Around half of owners praise its ride comfort and low road noise, and many also report reassuring dry performance and good overall longevity. The most common drawback is steering feel: around one in four owners describe the response as vague or “floaty”, with a smaller group also finding it pricey for the level of feedback. A small but notable minority (around one in twenty) say road noise increases as the tire wears.
What owners mention most counted across 171 reviews
No complaints about the overall performance. However, despite a 70dB rating, as they wear down they become very noisy on anything less than a very smooth asphalt road surface. Will not buy again for this reason.
They are expensive, but at least they last for a very long mileage. They offer good grip in any road condition,For most aspects a great tire: very good comfort, silent, great cornering, very good wearing. My problem with them is the vague steering on the motorway, which also makes them more sensitive for crosswinds.
Used this primary 4 almost 2 year.
Strongly recommend purchase primary 4 plus is much better than primary 4. Just installed three months primary 4 plus in my other family car Elantra .so far so good
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They are expensive, but at least they last for a very long mileage. They offer good grip in any road condition, as long as it is not snow/ice. I use them as winter tires because seeing snow where I live is rare, and they perform decent in the cold (-5ºC/-10ºC aprox). In my case I drive them up to 205km/h (autobahn) no problem, my car does not go much faster.
You can definetly push them around corners, but they wont give good feedback. Good wet handling, and very easy to recover after aquaplaning at highway speeds.
Nice confort and quiet ride, would recommend for people looking for a nice tire to do fast driving without getting in too much trouble.
Definetly changing them for some pilot sport 5 or simmilar.
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Great tire for comfort and ride but complete rubbish for wear - I got less than 25,000km out of a set and will not go there again at the price
Rubbish Michelin
I have driven these tires for 47k miles in just over two years and they are still legal (just). I will be replacing them soon with the same, as they have proved to be the best tires I have ever driven on all my cars. They got slightly noisier with wear, but overall much quieter than other tires I had on the same vehicle. The roads in the UK can have quite rough surfaces, but the road noise is better with these tires than in all the others I had. The handling is excellent for my needs, as I don't drive the car harshly, but when I needed to break, pull at a round-about, or to make an evasive maneuver, it never let me down. The levels of comfort are also very good, having driven 1,400 miles in two consecutive days across Europe feeling like in a limo.
Driven a total of 1000 km in mild winter, the main thing coming from the previous kleber tires are the road noise, significantly less, and general confort, which somehow feels softer overall. The dry and wet feel overall better, but aquaplaning is surprisingly not great on these tires, with slight skips sideways (tiny really, but perceptable in the wet Brittany weather), which, while better than the klebers, was not a big improvement as I had hoped. The road feedback is better than the klebers, still slightly Meh, but fine overall for city, country roads and some highway use. Have to see if these tires wear out slower than the klebers though.
A lot of wear especially on the shoulder with a sportier ride. High driving comfort, good predictability on both dry and wet surfaces. However grip and stopping times are significantly longer with a worn tire.
A safe and comfortable tire with predictable handling. Dry grip is good but does not have a sporty feel. Struggles for grip under full power when wet (instant torque from electric motor!). Tire noise is fairly low. Good resistance to wear and seems to have low friction which helps electric range.
These tires came standard on both the Kia Proceed and my parents their DS7. Personally these tires are not Michelins best work. They handle and grip very good in both dry and wet conditions with good levels of road feedback. But the comfort levels are way below acceptable for a premium tire! They offer a harsh ride and make alot of noise in the cabin. This while the DS7 has special active scan suspension to even out every little bump in the road and has high levels of sound insulation and layered glass windows! Got rid of the Michelins on the Kia for the CC2. On the DS7 they were wore down after only 10000km! The dealership filed a complain with Michelin because alot of costumers have come in with the same problem.
Overall, Michelins do not disappoint. Have them installed on my 2009 Honda Civic 1,600CC in the above stated size. Dry grip and braking is decent, wouldn’t say they’re extremely good. However, have tried emergency braking in the wet and it disappoints. Wet grip is decent. As an overall touring tire, this is not a set of tires for you to fit on and go on spirited driving. Road noise is kept well at bay, tire compound is soft. Would probably want to try Yokohama/Kumho/Hankook as my next tire.
71%
Member
Citroën
205/55 R17
20,000 miles
Mostly Motorways
Spirited
For most aspects a great tire: very good comfort, silent, great cornering, very good wearing. My problem with them is the vague steering on the motorway, which also makes them more sensitive for crosswinds. The primacy 3 doesn't have this problem. Because of this, i was very happy to change them last year november to my very good driving michelin winter tires which because of that I drove the whole summer until now. I will try to sell the primacy 4's, pity because I only used them one season.
