Best Tires for the BMW 530i

What can I say that hasn't been said? I bought these to replace the dry rotted michelin pilot super sport. They're very similar in terms of performance, but to me the super sport felt a little sportier. The ps4s is a little more comfortable than the super sport. Ride is quite plush and quiet for a max performance tire. It's also very good in the wet. I've never once experienced aquaplaning with them. One area where I think the ps4s is much better than the super sport is durability. I've had them for 7 years (yes, I know), and they still look like new, and I still have tons of tread left. My old super sport was quite worn and dry rotted by the 7th year. With that being said, I don't think the ps4s is a huge improvement over the super sport, which was already amazing. And price has skyrocketed in recent years, at least where I live, so even though I would easily recommend them if money is no object, I think I'll try another tire in the future.

Mounted these this season on my BMW 530i xDrive, and after a few hundred kilometers of mixed driving, including mountain roads with tight hairpins, wet tarmac, and temperatures between 3–5°C, I’m genuinely impressed. With all driver aids turned off, the grip was annoyingly good; no matter how much I tried to unsettle the car, it simply stuck to the road.

Coming from Continental run-flats, the comfort improvement is immediately noticeable. The ride feels more compliant, and surprisingly, the road noise is minimal barely distinguishable from my summer Michelin Primacy 3s. That was an unexpected bonus.

As for fuel consumption, I can’t make a direct comparison since my winter setup is 245/45 R18 all around, while summer is 245 front / 275 rear on 19-inch wheels. Still, the overall consumption seems similar.

So far, the WP52+ have been flawless in all conditions tested wet grip, handling, comfort, and noise are top-notch. I’ll post an update once I’ve had the chance to test them on snow and ice, but as it stands, Kumho really nailed it with this tire.

This is a follow up review to the other one I posted. I have now covered about 10000km with those tires over the span of 4 months.
My initial comments regarding comfort still stand. Its a super quiet tire and its qualities are fully oriented towards comfort.

However at least for my car they are a very (very) poor fit. I mentioned before that the sidewalls are too soft and this now also shows in the wear pattern.
My rear tires are like brand new. But my fronts have now rendered the on-center feel of the car very vague to the point where driving at regular highway speeds felt uncomfortable. I can clearly see how on the exterior side of the channel walls (for lack of better wording) I have squished the tires and started to eat at it. In practical terms this means that now if I need to do a quite direction change the front is not only slow to respond but starts to lose grip quite quickly and I can feel in the my steering wheel that I am just squishing the tire and asking it to do something it does not want to.

At this point I'm thinking that these are probably not well suited to bigger heavier cars despite their XL rating. I have only pushed them hard on mountain passes 3-4 times and that loss of performance is worrying. Especially considering the BMW G30 I drive only has a 2L petrol so is neither very powerful, not particularly nose heavy.

After my last highway drive I decided to give up on them and bought a set of crossclimate 3 sport which so far have made my car feel like a bmw once again. Once I do some more miles I will share a review on the Michelins as well.

TL;DR
For comfort on smaller passenger cars, probably fine. For anything else? Way too soft and likely to wear fast and perform poorly.

Came with the car I bought back in November.
Average in the dry, awful in the wet. Soft sidewall, low-responsiveness.
Bordering on ditch-finder category.

No progressivity when you're getting anywhere near the grip limit. Little to no feedback through the steering.
Seems hard-wearing. Relatively quiet.

"high performance tire" according to google AI, which is massively misleading. Not a performance tire and said performance certainly isn't high.
I would never put a penny towards these tires. I'll get them swapped for something decent next week.

If you are reading this and are considering this tire for your car: don't buy them if you care for your family or your car.

I bought a set to replace my previous Firestone Roadhawk's that came with my car when I bought it. I can't draw much of a comparison as the Firestone's were at the very end of their life when I got the car. (2022DOT with about 3mm of tread left)

I do a lot of driving in the summer and a large amount of it is on the highway or b roads and I wanted a comfort oriented tire since my car does not have any M Sport suspension bits and is quite comfort oriented already. For that purpose they are a great tire and I'm quit happy with my choice. Road noise is extremely low even on bad tarmac.
One downside of the comfort levels is that the sidewalls are extremely soft to the point where the car's 'on center' feel above 130 kph at the OE recommended pressures of 2.4 bar front and 2.8 bar rear is really bad. I bumped them up to 2.6 front and 3.0 rear and that made a huge difference and the car now also handles well at high speeds.

Interesting fact is that out of all the tires options from budget to premium in my size all tires were rated to 300kph, these were the only ones with an H speed rating. And while they hold the road well they don't give me enough confidence even with my bumped up pressures to drive above 180 kph for an extended period of time. But I also don't live in Germany so that's not a big deal.

I got to push them quite hard on some mountain roads and grip was surprisingly good. My trip took me trough the same mountain pass in both wet and dry conditions so I got a pretty good comparison and grip was really good in both. I've had Michelin PS4's and Goodyear Asymmetric 6's and I'd say these offer maybe 80-85% of the raw grip. But subjectively they are nowhere near as confidence inspiring and feedback is almost non existent. The front end feels mushy even with the higher pressures but loss of grip near the limit is quite progressive and the car wants to understeer first (maybe inherited from Michelin being their midrange brand?).

I've done about 3500km with them in the 2 months I've had them and they don't show any abnormal signs of wear in fact they look pretty much brand new. So I'd presume wear will be fine but time will tell.

In conclusion:

As a touring tire I definitely recommend them with the caveat that you must really care only about comfort.
Would I buy them again? On this car probably not. Even if my car is not at all sport oriented I still like the occasional spirited push on an empty road and it feels like these tires want to punish me for doing that. But as the touring comfort tire they are marketed as, they do a great job at that. But only that.

ps: tread when new before fitting in my 245/40/19 size was 7.2mm

Saw some negative reviews after buying these so wanted to give my view. They’re better than I expected and seem a lot better than some older reviews, not sure what some people expect for a mid priced tire. They grip really well and the handling on the car is very good. They look like a good tire, don’t look cheap. Not sure what road feedback means so haven’t scored that, likewise ‘how progressive they are at the limit’- I’m no pro driver but to me these seems like good option away from the big brands.

Never had a tire wear so fast on me. These are by far the worst tires I have ever used. Most tires last me 3 to 4 years when I drove a sports car AWD. I now have a bmw 5 series turbo which doesn't accelerate fast nor do I drive crazy and going to work and parking in garage I wore them in 9000 miles. Asked discount tire to do more than credit the wear because this was told to me to be their best tire. The continental on my car lasted 32000 miles.

I had these tires before replacing them with michelin ps4s. Honestly, I liked the PSS better. It's barely noticeable but it's there. I felt like the PSS was just more direct, more responsive, I don't know exactly how to describe it. The ps4s is an amazing tire too, dont get me wrong. However, just like all michelin tires I've owned over the years, by the sixth year, the PSS had developed cracks even though the car was parked indoor in a garage. I had the PSS for a little over 9 years, and once I dismounted them, I noticed the inside was almost completely torn. Still better than my ps4, which suffered from the same fate after only 6 years, but it's pretty scary. Michelin claimed their tires can last 10 years, but I never got to the 10th year, especially if the car is driven daily. I still had lots of tread left on my PSS, so I guess in terms of wear it was pretty good. Much, much better than my old PS2, which was almost completely bald after only 4 years. Overall, the PSS is an excellent tire.