Drivers largely rate the Nexen WinGuard Sport 2 highly for its quiet, comfortable ride, strong wet grip (including resistance to aquaplaning), stable dry handling, and excellent value. Many also report respectable wear and adequate snow traction for a performance-winter design. A minority note softer sidewalls that can make handling feel vague and some limitations on ice or deep snow. A few reviews report quality/uniformity issues (egg-shaped/wobble) leading to vibration.
What owners mention most counted across 29 reviews
Was searching for a cheap winter tire and got more than I hoped for. Very quiet and comfortable with great performance on dry wet and snow. Didnt notice any wear. I recommend this tire to anyone who is aiming for comfort and quitness without braking a bank.
bought several years ago when they appeared on market. Went eggy after 1 winter. 1st winter was ok, ant the beginning of 2nd i noticed smth wrong, 3rd was really annoying to drive. several balancing did not helped, checked rims, rims were ok, tested. now i see people write same comments. so, do not buy ;)
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These tires have not scored that good in the tests I have read but I read various recommendations from owners, especially regarding driving dynamics. I was in urgent need for new winter tires (nail in one of the old) so the recommendations together with a good price made me take a chance. And man I am glad I did! For me these tires has been great. Not the best grip on hard acceleration or breaking, they are quite soft, but hey - these are winter tires. We have not had a hard winter this year (I live in Sweden) but during the weeks of snow and ice, the grip has been surprisingly good. Good handling over all and really, really silent. Fantastic in wet, I do many hours on high speed highways every week and have felt really secure even in heavy rain and high speed. So all in all, I can truly recommend these tires.
On an AWD stinger, these tires played in 50cm deep snow. Whereas other cars were getting stuck, my car was just playing. Only in the snow drift will you feel the car trying to find traction which it found in seconds.
Although these tires work well in snow, dry and wet roads, they do not like slick icy snow or ice. You can feel the ABS trying to stop the car on such conditions or feel the rear wanting to fishtale when taking a turn slowly (from a stop- nevermind at speed).
The tire has egg shape and no balancing can fix it. I went back to the seller and they send the tire to the factory for testing and they said its in the normal specification. At 110kmh and more the druving is uncomfortable because the vibrations from tire. Very disapointed at the factory testing...
Tires went wobbly right after 10000km. Unrepairable with 3 different tire balancing machines. Simply 2of4 tires were shot.Do not expect these tires to be reliable , the price tells you all. Definitelly won't buy or recommend these any more.
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230/45 R18 W
5,000 miles
Mostly Motorways
Average
Bought these tires because they were cheaper compared to other Ultra High Performance tires (Michelin PS4S, Pirreli Sotozzero, Vrendstein Wintrac). We don't get much snow and I thought for 3 months these will be fine until I switch to my normal summer tires. I have a 450HP all wheel drive electric car.
Turns out, the tires have weak lateral sidewalls and as such handling on my car suffers a lot (and I like a sporty drive). A lot of fine dust rubber from the rear tires ends up on the car's paint and glues on to it - something I didn't expect would happen and washing this dust from the paint is very difficult to do. Tires are also a bit noisy. Decent tires but wouldn't buy again.
Absolutely happy with tires. Used as All Season Tires. Completed 5000miles/8000km
Tires been used average driving conditions, average weather all year. (From -12 to +31 Celsius, UK conditions)
Front tires left ~7mm, rear tires left ~8mm
Few times crossed paddle with no issue
Great tires for affordable price
These are great tires, I use them on a Auris Hybrid for about 20k miles and mostly motorways driving plus some country lanes and some A &B roads, they are absolutely brilliant in wet, very good in dry and snow and ice just grippy as on dry surface. Most important factor before my purchase was the noise level , and they exceeded my expectation, these tires are quieter than many summer tires, which is something unusual. Comfortable, safe, and reasonably priced i can highly recommend them. Fuel efficiency is also not much affected, they are typical euro winter tires. ðŸ‘
