Owners most often value the Pirelli P 7 for tread life and dry grip, with several longer-use accounts describing substantial mileage before replacement. Steering response also earns recurring praise, while comfort is more often liked than criticised. Wet grip is divided, with a substantial favorable group but concerns from around one in five owners, including some reports of reduced confidence after use. Road noise is the most common complaint, raised by roughly a quarter of owners, although others find it quiet. There are no repeat reviewers to establish a consistent ageing pattern, so individual reports of declining grip or rising noise should not be treated as a fixed point in its life.
What owners mention most counted across 69 reviews
The Pirelli P7 is an absolutely awful tire and I'm amazed that Pirelli put their name to it. On rear wheel drive cars such as my Mercedes I would say that they were so awful as to be almost dangerous, they slip and slide everywhere they have extremely poor grip in all weather conditions to the point where I am changing them even though they still have plenty of tread left because I just don't trust them to keep my car on the road.
Check out how the BEST all seasons tires perform against premium summer and winter tires!
Not very good. My Audi was originally specced with Pirelli P6000 which are awful, P7 are not much better. The only thing that I like is that the riding quality is well matched to the Audi suspension. The other pair of tires on the car is Hankook K115 (excellent). I rotate my tires fairly often and its obvious that the Pirellis are not even on the same page. Wet grip is very poor, the car understeers much earlier and is less resistant to aqauplaning. ABS kicks in earlier too. It also tramlines much more noticeably and is less directionally stable at high speed. I cant say I have found them noisy however and I think part of the reason for lack of wet performance is a good wear rate. They arent cheap and other cheaper brands (Hankook, Kumho etc) do it all much better.
Which tires do you drive?
Researching the Pirelli P 7? Rate the tires you actually drive - and help the next buyer choose.
Bought them on April 2011 to replace the rubbish Bridgestones it has before. Compared to the Bridgestone Turanza ER30s these were much better. The car was instantly transformed. Road noise, tire roar, road feedback and progressiveness was much improved. Overall very happy with P7s but I wouldnot buy them again as there are many other tires which are better. The reason I got Pirellis was because I have never used Pirellis before and just wanted to see how good or bad they are. Might get Continental or Michelin or even Dunlop. Very happy indeed.
Front tire on Honda FRV. Overall tire have been good but down to legal limit after only 16500 miles and therefore have not lasted as long as I would have wanted. I am not heavy driver.
Difficult to compare as only tires I have had on this volvo v50 so far. Wear is good - expecting 25000 on front and more on rear, but subjectively I think they seem noisy and rough though some of this may be the car itself. Going to try conti's next
I don't find the tires noisy. Have been drivien them 2k miles, already starting to go off line, with dead zone, robs my confidence in driving high speed. Balanced twice still vibrates after reaching 65mph. Feedback and progressiveness is quite poor as snaps had happened with little warning, though in the wet is actually more predictable. I'm quite disappointed despite all their sucesses in motorsports, their mass market P7 doesn't seem to live up. Will try some other brand in the future.
Quite poor performance from Pirelli with these. The grip level is very low whether wet or dry, even with a pityful 170bhp. They are noisy on the motorway and offer little feedback or progressiveness (sliding badly on a wet roundabout at only 15 mph).
They do wear well, but that's the only real bonus with them.
Positive:
Excellent handling and braking on dry.
Very good grip and braking on wet.
Low rolling resistance.
Negative:
Average aquaplaning behavior.
High road noise.
