Tread life is the main strength of the Michelin Primacy HP, with 73 positive mentions against 30 complaints, supported by several mid-life and end-of-life accounts. Dry grip is generally favorable at 50 positive comments against nine negative, and wet grip at 39 against 16, although confidence in rain is less consistent. Comfort is more often praised than criticised, but noise is divided at 29 positive comments and 22 complaints. Around one in nine criticise value, while around a fifth criticise wear despite the overall favorable balance. Repeat reviewers show no shared direction of change, and individual reports of grip or noise deteriorating with wear do not establish a uniform ageing pattern.
What owners mention most counted across 156 reviews
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Owner ratings averaged from 204 ratings
Owner score75%
Dry Grip84%
Road Feedback77%
Wear76%
Comfort75%
Wet Grip75%
Handling73%
Michelin Primacy HP Reviews - Page 10
Score spread across 158 written reviews
miles
Review stage
77%
Member
Audi
225/45 R17 W
23,000 miles
A Combination of Roads
Spirited
Really nice tires for luxury, soft driving, yet in my case not a must. While these tires are great they luck when pushed to the limits. Lasted very well.
Excellent all round tires. A definite improvement over the original Primacy model. Good dry grip/handling. Low road noise and very responsive at high speed (+180 Kph motorway cruising)
Recommended.
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I have always had Michelin tires on my Citroen cars - my tires on my Xsara Picassos lasted 40,000 miles. The tires on my new Grand C4 Picasso have only lasted 24,000 miles which is a great disappontment as I am a steady driver , not prone to rapid acceleration/braking. I will switch to another brand as I am sure that most brands will last longer.
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Have these on my 06 civic 1.8 33,000 mile so far with 4.5 mm of tread left on both front and back was expecting the fronts to wear out first but even wear all round.
Excellent tires (205/55/16/91W). I have now to change the front pair, worn down to 3mm, after 20,000 miles (including country roads on a daily basis) and a horrible winter during which I regularly drove in the snow. I should also say that I tend to drive as if on a track, like a maniac with very little use of breaks, and a lot of clutch action and sharp turns :) The rear pair is down to 5mm, so I hope to be able to keep them on for a while longer. The grip of the tires is brilliant, but part of it might be due to the fact that Audis have front traction. Would def. recommend, although the cost is rather painful.
Excellent tires
Replaced x2 due to pothole damage, but the remaining pair went 47k
Had the older model on other cars. Normally with RWD BMW the wear is even F & R. But even a FWD Audi made 35k on front & 55k on rear.
Fitted these to my Mondeo Estate, 2.0 TDCi about 18 months ago and have been impressed. I do a lot of motorway miles and the tires are now around 2mm on the front and 3-4mm on the rears, I swapped them around at about 25k miles and am just about to hit 47k miles with these tires. The main impression I get is they are much quieter than my old tires and while I don't drive quickly I have never had any problems with the grip on the tires in the wet or dry and even when performing emergency stops the ABS doesn't kick in, so grip seems to be fine. My MPG is also slightly better with these tires, I've seen around a 3% improvement.
Couple of minor points, my fuel consumption was worse than normal for the first 1k miles or so and the wear rate was scary, dropping from around 7mm-5mm of tread in the first couple of thousand miles, but after that wear is incredibly good!
They aren't good in snow, but it's a summer tire so as expected really, not particularly bad having said that.
sports tourer 1.9 dci got 25k from these tires on the front (they were on the car when i got it so they did more) i do alot of motorway driving where they are brill wet or dry but when i am on a twisty A or b road they are excelent cant fault the grip when pushed hard have put some more on the front and they took a while to get a good feel/grip like the old ones am thinking of some energy savers on the back in the next week af fuel costs so much will let you now what they are like
