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
These came fitted to my car when I bought it. Considering how expensive they are I think they are pretty poor. They have poor wet grip and wear fast. I think I will replace with something cheaper when the time comes, as many cheaper tires perform better,
I bought the car at 79k miles with these tires on. They had about 6mm tread. After 10k miles they are down to 4mm. So guess that's about 30k life - not bad. They are OK in all conditions so far but they do not see ice or snow as we have winters. Ride is a bit soft but that could be the 55 profile; a previous E46 had 225x50 which I preferred. They are a bit noisy, possibly as the tread is getting low.
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Achieved over 30k miles with these tires and am very pleased with them.
Great wet and dry grip - always providing good traction.
I'm a normal driver so rarely pressed but always gave a comfortable ride and good grip in corners.
Overall a very good summer tire which gave me no problems.
Only issue is price and have now fitted some nexen nBlue tires. Will I notice the £50 odd difference for two tires?
Put these on my altma. Excellent dry grip.soft and good grip. Good over humps. Excellent cornering due to wide shoulder blocks. Overall ex ellent summer tire, worth the money.
Very good tires, used them for 55000km on a front heavy MPV (set of 4 standard equipped car). In dry they grip enough to let you topple the car in a very tight bend. In wet they are OK but you can get aquaplaning if they are more than half worn. I'm very pleased on how long they lasted with an even wear. Just a tad cheaper and they would make the perfect tire.
70.000 Km in two summers but i'll use them until october, so I think other 15.000 Km due the 3mm remaining. Very balanced tire on wet and dry , with no drawback. They have become noisy after the 60K. I think will change them with the new Primacy 3.
I have to say these tires are the best I've ever encountered. Despite being an F-rated tire for fuel economy / rolling resistance (suggesting excellent grip), I am getting around 48mpg for a mixture f country and minor A/B roads rising to around 56mpg for motorway and major A roads, which is comparable to Ford's quoted 55-56mpg - impressive.
Tread wear is excellent, after 12500 miles, they have around 2.5mm (I think they started at 8mm) or to put it another way after 12500 miles they now stand at 5.5mm - I should add that these were factory fitted having taken the car from the showroom.
Grip is excellent, I am running the 1.ol 125bhp engine, they are responsive maintaing grip from start, right through the driving range with no judder or wheelspin experienced from either lower quality or poorly maintained tires.
The tires also handle well in very wet / torrential rain, frost and ice having driven comfortably while maintaining composure at speed on the Herefordshire, Somerset and North & Mid Wales country roads during the winter storms of 2013-14.
The car corners well though it maintains too much grip for quick movements on sharper corners requiring dropping into the low driving range 1st/2nd gears which is a shame as momentum is lost, this is particularly an annoyance for me as the entrance to my street as almost a u-turn from a roundabout, the huge amounts of grip here or very unhelpful - it is these maneuvers that really let the tire down as this is where you shall burn through the most amount of fuel.
From inside, the road feedback is good though on newly surfaced roads (not many of these in the UK), it can feel a little dull and almost too protected as though they want to maintain control rather than passing it to the driver (think nannying), though for me, this is a niggle rather than a huge set-back.
Comfort-wise, these tires really do deaden the noise and associated judder/bounce usually experienced when driving on Britain's roads.
All in all, a good all-rounder with excellent wear and grip on a mixture of roads through different driving styles (both myself and my wife drive differently - she goes mad in my car compared to he relaxed style in her Fiesta), that offers extremely good grip in both wet and dry without compromising too much on fuel economy - think the sole of a Dr Martens boot for wear and grip coupled with the flexibility, weight and performance of a good pair of running shoes: great for most roads and seasons.
Very poor grip in anything other than bone dry summer weather. With these tires I'd slide on cornering and wheel spin in 3rd gear. Fitted some Falken ze914 and the car is instantly transformed. No sliding on cornering, in dry or wet. No wheel spin / traction issues and much quieter.
They came with my new Peugeot 407.
After about 4 years and no more that 35,000 kms, nobody (including me) didn't understand how come that a pair of Michelin tires can became so noisy. To be mentioned here that the wear was more than OK (about 8 mm). I went with the vehicle in the specialized workshop (Peugeot) and the mechanics finally accepted that the bad-bad noise came from the tires. I replaced them and now I can listen to the music on the road, again. After this experience I'll never buy Michelin.
I am a driving instructor and had bridgestones on before these, looked into a diferent tire for a better price and found these, I did 28,000 miles on the last set so can't get any better than that just get your tracking sorted before fitting a new tire!
