Best Tires for the Toyota Avensis estate 1.8 petrol

I have Hankook 4S2 tires on my other car and they are a much better all season tire in every way, except slightly noisier. Of course, they are a newer design too.If I drove more sedately the Michelin would be fine. I would buy the Hankoook 4S2 over these every time.

I have been driving my Goodyear Efficientgrip Performance 2 (215/55 R17 94W) for about 1000 miles and I'm quite surprised with the quiet and comfortable ride they deliver, a real premium experience. I have to admit that they struggle a bit on wet braking, but the rolling resistance is impressive, as the car kept the same fuel consumption as with the smaller OEM Michelin (205/60 R16 92V).

These tires were on the car when I bought it. The elderly gentleman I bought the car from used them as winter tires, which is fine, as we get very little snow in Hungary. As he mainly used the car in summer, they have had very little wear, and my greatest concern was that the rubber might be going hard and cracking. However, as is the habit here, he must have kept them in plastic bags in the garage during summer because they seem to be in great condition, in every way. Initially, I thought that they lacked feel but I now think that maybe more a consequence of over-light power steering the car has. I have driven only 2000km, which includes commuting to work in Budapest and two family holidays, before and then after Christmas, in quite miserable weather. In wet, light rain and mist, at just above freezing temperatures on B roads, these tires have surprised me with how well they grip in the corners and stop. When the weather turned to freezing fog, I did not expect great traction on ice but I was also pleasantly surprised that I could still safely navigate corners and roundabouts, while watching a few others slipping and sliding. A light dusting of snow with some ice below, made me realise that they are not snow tires. However, once on a major road the road is simply wet and cold and the tires are working well. In the dry, they behave much like a summer tire. My comparison tire is the Hankook 4S2 fitted to my Renault. The Hankook seems much better in snow but not so much better in other conditions and it is a much newer tire, both in age and design.

This is initial review of mine (only 500km). I have ridden dozens of winter tires in past 30 years and have tested even more since I was working in automotive industry for 25 years.
So far haven’t tested them on snow and ice but i do on dry and wet roads 0-7C
These tires on dry road are average at best. They are wallowy and have poor lateral grip although they hold decent speeds before they start loosing grip. They are very imprecise and often need correction while in curve.
Wet performance is below average it was even worse experience than on dry roads.
I hope they will perform better on snow and ice since Sava Eskimo S3+ was better than most premium tires at those conditions.

Have these tires on Toyota Avensis for the first summer season, before I had Michelin Primacy 3 as original part from Toyota. These Barums are comparable, dry grip is absolutely OK for normal driving, wet is OK to. Tires are very comfortable and silent compare to the old Michelins or used Nokian WR D4, which I'm using for winter.

For information, I am an experienced driver who drives according to the conditions, and can drive a bit over the speed limit if the roads and conditions are good. I have driven about 3000 km(1900miles) and am very satisfied. I have driven in torrential rain and not noticed any aquaplaning (max speed 80 km/h). The tires make a little more noise than previous tires I've had, but not disturbing to me. The sound from the tires was almost annoying at first, but after driving 1000-1500 km, the sound became weaker. I measured the tread depth when they were new, 8 mm. After driving about 3000 km, they are almost 7 mm (6.8 mm). I am very happy with that. Before i have Nexen Nblue HD Plus, and they were very quiet, but after about 7-8000 km there was only about 3.5 mm tread depth. Based on the fact that they are very cheap tires, I must say I am very satisfied! Drives only on asphalt roads.

Had these tires on the Toyota Avensis, dry grip is good with good steering, wet grip average, but still safe. What is the worse on these tires is the noise, they started to be so noisy when the thread is under 5mm, that I will not use them for another season. Wear is 1mm for 10.000 km in the front wheels, which is good.

An excellent tire in both wet and dry conditions, highly recommended. Could be the best summer yet, but for one overwhelming niggle. Fuel economy. The 'EU' fuel rating for this tire is 'C'. Very unsure how this rating was achieved - & this is my experience so far. It's also worth noting at this juncture that I only replaced 2 rear Dunlop BluResponse's, leaving 2 Michelin Energy Savers up front intact. Both these older tires are 'B' rated for fuel.
On the open road, M and A roads, and generally taking it fairly easy, the T001 Evo's have proved fabulous, emulating the fuel economy of the Dunlop's, easily a 'B'. Well done Bridgestone.
In our corner of London however, the same cannot be said to be the case. Where before we would week-in week-out achieve 40mpg (via the car's computer) now we only achieve a careful 35 mpg at best, a 12.5% decline (and with the recent cold snap 33mpg has been the norm.) These latter figures are equivalent to Bridgestone's old ER30 and ER300 tires, both of which we've had on this particular car in the past, and both of which are 'E' fuel rated.
35mpg would therefore suggest a D fuel rating?
So, have the EU raters balanced the two results out, 'B&D' resulting in an overall 'C' rating? Something feels amiss.
If you do a modicum of stop/start driving, anticipate a lower fuel rating. If you're out on the M/A roads, the tire will excel. Bottom line, we do 9k miles p.a., and therefore over the life of the T001's at today's pump £prices and presuming a 25-30k tire life, we will be spending an additional £500-600 in fuel alone, relatively small - but then so is our mileage compared to many. It would now simply be more cost effective to trade them in for either more Dunlop's, or a 'B' fuel rated alternative. Would I buy them again, or replace the Energy Savers with these T001 Evo's going forward? Unless Bridgestone manage to get them into the 'B' fuel bracket and pertinently, across all driving terrains/conditions, the answer is a definite NO (otherwise, would the fuel economy continue to further fall?) A really very good summer tire nevertheless, potentially exceptional.

This review is for Toledo TL1000 tires 215/55ZR17 98W XL from SD International.
http://www.sd-international.cn/products/Toledo_pcr.html . I got my Toyota Avensis 1.8 CVT Estate second hand (ex Europe car hire car) and it had a pair of these on the front. Not knowing that much about tires at the time I decided to put the same on the rear which had been the OEM Dunlop Efficient grip. At the point the car had done 42K miles. We mostly drive in London with the occasional long trip. For the price of around £40 a tire you can't fault them. I can't do a direct comparison to other tires on the same car but the wet grip and dry grip in warmer weather is very good. When it drops below 10C the tires tend to harden up and being XL tires and seemingly a hard wearing compound (7mm still on the rear after 4k miles) that probably isn't surprising. You are definitely going to get a bit better handling, comfort and safety with a £100+ tire but I don't think you will find much more durability.

Good tires but do not last long. Have been using for the last four years. Been changing my front ones twice in a year. They do wear a lot. Do around 12k miles a year. Bit expensive for my test. Otherwise they're quiet, handles my car well and really grips in corners.