Yokohama Geolandar G98A

The Yokohama Geolandar G98A is a Premium Touring Summer tire designed to be fitted to SUV and 4x4s.

Dry Grip 74%
Wet Grip 67%
Road Feedback 68%
Handling 68%
Wear 49%
Comfort 61%
Buy again 32%

Tire review data from 15 tire reviews averaging 60% over 209,000 miles driven.

The Geolandar G98A is ranked 30th of 30 Summer Premium Touring tires.

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Top 3 Yokohama Geolandar G98A Reviews

Given 52% while driving a Honda 2009 CRV (225/65 R17) on a combination of roads for 10,000 easy going miles
These were not as good as my original tires didn’t grip as well, but when it snowed , they were absolutely rubbish. Nearly had two accidents because I couldn’t stop, and I wasn’t going too fast, having to change them after only 10,000 miles because I feel they unsafe if it’s snows it was in snow that I have my problems. Do not know if I could stop if it was icy after a few days my vehicle is a 4x4 never had trouble stopping when it snowed before. These are not cheap budget tires, expected them to be much better, will be replacing in the next two weeks when there’s still lots of tread left
Helpful 12 - tire reviewed on October 13, 2023
Given 96% while driving a Subaru Outback (225/55 R17) on mostly motorways for 30,000 average miles
Current set have done 33000 miles with normal and motorway driving - still 6mm left.
Helpful 76 - tire reviewed on July 14, 2015
Mazda (225/45 R17) on mostly country roads for 20,000 easy going miles
Factory fitted to a Mazda CX8, disappointed with the wear, 30,000km and down to 2.omm tread. Will purchase Cooper CS5 to replace.
Helpful 17 - tire reviewed on June 11, 2020
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Given 76% while driving a Mazda CX8 (225/65 R17) on mostly country roads for 7,000 spirited miles
Fitted to Mazda CX8 as their OEM tire in New Zealand. Good grip and feed back through steering, sure footed in both wet and dry conditions with my driving being mostly open road on hilly twisting roads around the coast line. Recommend
Helpful 19 - tire reviewed on May 9, 2019
Given 76% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/55 R17 V) on mostly country roads for 19,000 easy going miles
They spend very fast 31000 Kms: 3mm front axle, 2,5mm rear axle.
Good grip in dry, in wet at 20000 Kkms passing through a small puddle at 90 Kms / h the rear wheels slid sideways.
I would not buy them again.
Helpful 16 - tire reviewed on December 31, 2018
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Given 73% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/65 R17 V) on a combination of roads for 23,000 average miles
I got the car with this tires, at 30.000km. They were OEM issue. The thread was ~3.5mm when I got the car, so on it's end of their life. After 7k km, they got down to 2-2.5mm. I drove with them either fast and slow, on various roads, highways and country roads. In general, they acted fine, pretty grippy for a worn down tire, quite difficult to make burnouts if you wanted.
Only issue I observed was in moderate and heavy rain, the car would became unstable and the tires would slip to left and right at over 80km/h on the motorway (although I was the fastest driver around :) ). So not that safe in this regard, although we could attribute this bad performance to the lack of remaining thread.
The noise level was ok, nothing to write home about. I just took the car with them, maybe I was used to that specific noise of the car. The wear is fine from my point of view, 35-40k km from a pair of tires is more than adequate.
As comparison, on a Civic, a high performance tire as Goodyear F1 Eagle Asymmetric 2 would worn almost completely in 20-25k kms.
Unfortunately, in the CX-5 size, 225/65R17 there are not many performance tires to chose from, so I find the Geolandars G98A perfectly adequate for the job, and I would happily get them again.

This one being a company lease car, they replaced them with Bridgestone Ecopia EP850, as the programme is arranged. I just drove 15km with the new Bridgestones, so not enough to get an opinion, but I kind of already miss the Geolandars. With the Bridgestones I can break traction at each start from the stoplights, a thing that would be hardly achievable in the Geolandars. Maybe they are new, I'll give them time to settle in.
Helpful 20 - tire reviewed on December 8, 2017
Given 44% while driving a Honda CRV (225/65 R17 V) on mostly motorways for 10,000 easy going miles
Quiet but very very stiff ride...

You can feel the slightest road bump. Don't buy as you will regret it.
Helpful 14 - tire reviewed on September 11, 2017
Given 63% while driving a Subaru Outback (225/65 R17) on mostly motorways for 23,000 average miles
These came stock with my Subaru Outback Turbo Diesel.
I was relatively happy with them for the 18 months or so, with decent comfort, pretty quiet, good fuel efficiency and okay wet and dry performance given they are a stock set of tires from purchase.
At the 18months service, I was alerted to the fact that the tires had about 3mm of tread left, which was a complete surprise to me, as I have only driven 33,000km or 20,500 miles of mostly high speed (100km/h-110km/h) highway driving.
I have since done another 5,000km of driving, and it's coming to the end of the tire's life.
I am happy with every aspect of the tire other than the wear, but I just can not afford to be changing tires so often and the grip performance have saved me from a few sticky situations where the people in front of me suddenly stopped etc... but I won't be buying the same tires, given they are very expensive to replace with the same types. I might try the G055 and see how they go.
Helpful 24 - tire reviewed on September 7, 2017
Given 37% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/45 R17) on mostly town for 0 easy going miles
I wont be buying these tires again 27000km and worn out absolutely the worst tires in driving history!
Helpful 24 - tire reviewed on March 19, 2017
Given 39% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/45 R17) on a combination of roads for 8,000 spirited miles
I have got it on Mazda CX 5. To slippery on wet. Otherwise just ok! Not buy again !
Helpful 16 - tire reviewed on March 11, 2017
Given 51% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/45 R17) on mostly motorways for 20,000 easy going miles
Very poor wearing bought on a new Mazda CX5; 28,000klms and the tires were bald except for the main tread channels. Will not be purchasing again.
Helpful 16 - tire reviewed on December 2, 2016
Given 44% while driving a (225/45 R17) on for 0 miles
The absolute downside of these tires is the wear factor !!! 40,000 kms and not safe to drive anymore-considering I only do local school runs and local shopping runs this is very unexceptable !! NEVER AGAIN!
Helpful 19 - tire reviewed on October 20, 2016
Given 56% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/65 R17) on mostly town for 20,000 easy going miles
These tires were fitted from stock on our Mazda CX-5. The car has driven aprox 20000 miles now and the tires are full of bursts/cracks. This is the first time we see this happening with an tire. So for wear, we give it a 4. Everything else, a 6. Cause it's an "OK" tire to drive, nothing special. But because of the wear and price of the tire, we wouldn't buy it again and rather go for another brand.
Helpful 20 - tire reviewed on October 12, 2016
Given 60% while driving a Mazda cx5 (225/65 R17) on mostly town for 19,000 average miles
Factory tires on MazdaCX5 do most things OK, but @ 30000 km no tread left on the tires, despite the fact that the wear indicators still have approximately 1 - 2 mm left above them.
Helpful 14 - tire reviewed on December 7, 2015