Best Tires for the Audi SQ5

The tire is OK, but in driving in fresh snow roughly 10 cm. The tire didn't feel great. In driving in cooling conditions. As soon as the outside temperature hit 1.5c. The tires suddenly exhibited pronounced understeering. These tires are not for use in winter even though they have three peak rating.

Otherwise they seem to ride smoothly enough. They are quiet on the highway.

Heavy dry braking I found less bite than I would like. They are a really cheap tire and it shows. I wish the dealer wouldn't have wasted money on them but I was forced to take the car with them.

Solid all weather tire, wanted something in PNW weather that would let me run it year round without swaps.

Snow Performance
Really good, am able to hit up the ski resorts on pow days without issue. Grip was unquestioned here.

Rain Performance
No complaints, haven't noticed any slippage or hydroplaning.

Dry Performance
It's fine, not its strongest suit but no complaints considering the tire's expectations.

Fuel Efficiency
Quite poor, but this should be a well known drawback now for this tire. I'd say you could lose up to 15% of your fuel efficiency.

Road Noise
It's ok, not a strong suit here. Have the WRG5 on another car and it performs better as my point of comparison on this.

I was offered these tires that I didn't know on my Audi SQ5 and I have already driven one season with them. I was surprised because what I had before were
d Pirelli Scorpion of the same size and they performed very well, even at high speeds. Still on the Alventi Zeta, I'm going to undertake a second
summer season with these tires and they still look like new after about ten thousand kilometers they particularly surprised me during a trip to Mauricie where I had to drive almost the entire journey in heavy rain, which is why I highly recommend them in the rain.

I changed from the pirelli p zero that felt solid compared to the Goodyear. As for the noise, they seem to be the same. The good year look more beefy and also come with rim protection which is great. Looking foward to trying out the asymmetric 5s.

Can be noisy on expressway surfaces although Very comfortable. Steering can change from understeer to oversteer due to soft sidewalls P zero's steer better and are quieter although much higher treadwear

Bought a full set of Kumho Crugen HP91's about 12 months ago as replacements for the factory fitted Pirelli P-Zero's on my 2015 Audi SQ5. The Pirelli's were a good performer, but are stupidly expensive to replace and due to the relatively low treadwear rating they wear out very quickly (around 12,000miles / 20,000km's) and wore on the edges predominantly. Knowing I wanted to move away from the expensive Pirelli's, I found the Kumho's which rated well on multiple websites I looked at (including Tiresales.uk) for overall quality, grip and quietness, were much more reasonably priced, had a higher treadwear rating of 420 (vs 300 on the Pirelli's) so they should last longer when driven in the same manner, and had a more square shape which should help the tire wear evenly (instead of on the edges like the rounded off Pirelli's). Overall very happy with the Kumho's, they have been on the car now for around 12 months and about 6-7k miles (10,000kms). The tires are quiet to drive on, grip well in both wet and dry conditions, are wearing evenly and slowly, and look better on the rim compared to the Pirelli's. Steering feel/feedback was also noticeably better with the Kumho's, but hard to compare that aspect on brand new tires to the worn out Pirelli's they replaced.

Replaced my Pirelli PZero's after 17,000 miles and was inspired by the Dunlop series after having them on my previous Audi S4 Avant. Immediate reduction in road noise, grips in both wet and dry conditions and have complete confidence when cornering at speed. Better fuel return albeit marginally just adds to the all round thumbs up. While they are a much softer compound than the PZero,s even at this stage with limited mileage, I would find it hard to consider another tire.

Reference car: Audi SQ5 2014

I bought our SQ5 second hand and these tires came with it;

I see positive and negative reviews but people need to realise that this tire is released in 2014
And at the time these tires were extremely recommended for Hig Performance Cars such as Porsche 911 , Aston Martin etc.

Of my personal experience with these tires (living in Switzerland in the Ski area) these handle our SQ5 extremely good. Never slippery or whobby. In the wet they stay safe, dry also. On my size: 255/45/20 they do good.

They are very quite and also comfort is not to bad.
I would only buy these if you are driving an HP car.

Next winter (2019) when these are done i try the new versions of the Extreme S the Wintrac Pro. :)
They are absolutely the go for high performance cars.

Just like i said these tires are from 2014... and only if you can buy these cheap i would buy them otherwise go dor the Vredestein Wintrac Pro :))