185/60 R16 Tires

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Tire Reviewed Dry Grip Wet Grip Feedback Handling Wear Comfort
Goodyear UltraGrip 8 (58) 88% 92% 86% 82% 86% 87%
Falken Eurowinter HS449 (35) 85% 87% 80% 77% 85% 84%
Continental WinterContact TS 870 (18) 88% 93% 73% 82% 85% 86%
Toyo Proxes R39 (3) 97% 83% 93% 83% 73% 80%
Toyo SNOWPROX S 942 (5) 80% 82% 76% 74% 86% 90%
Uniroyal RainExpert 3 (36) 83% 93% 78% 75% 66% 81%
Hankook OPTIMO K415 (54) 82% 75% 75% 73% 85% 75%
Michelin Energy XM2 (53) 80% 74% 73% 74% 86% 72%
Maxxis Mecotra ME3 (9) 86% 71% 68% 81% 63% 65%
Goodyear EfficientGrip (142) 77% 68% 63% 61% 70% 71%
Bridgestone Ecopia EP25 (12) 65% 46% 63% 62% 55% 62%

185/60 16 Tire Review Highlights

Continental WinterContact TS 870 rated 94% while driving a Mazda 2 1.5 sport
Driving on for 3000 easy going miles
Third review after about 3000km, tested today on both fresh and compact snow, even on ice. Climbs, descents, tight curves, nothing complicated, the tire simply makes you drive as if you were on dry. Even on ice, uphill and downhill the car never had any difficulty, except on one climb where I had to deactivate the traction control, after which I immediately went up. On wet, already at 9-10 degrees the tire is excellent, but with temperatures of 4-5 degrees and sleet with wet asphalt, the car goes even better, even driving aggressively, the tire simply keeps you glued to the asphalt, incredible
tire reviewed on 2024-12-25 10:57:54
Continental WinterContact TS 870 rated 90% while driving a Mazda 2 1.5 sport
Driving on a combination of roads for 0 easy going miles
After 600km, the car on dry maintains an excellent driving feeling and excellent grip, very precise and direct steering despite being thermal. But on wet... These tires are something spectacular, never tried tires like this before on any car tested. On smooth and very wet asphalt, with temperatures of 9-10°c, the car enters the curve at high speeds without ever losing grip, never feeling the tire at the limit. Tried to brake from 80kmh to 0, not even the ABS came in, the car is simply stuck to the ground despite the very cold, slippery and wet surface. I don't know how else to describe these tires, they are perfect.
tire reviewed on 2024-11-14 04:17:48
Continental WinterContact TS 870 rated 80% while driving a Mazda Mazda2 Sport
Driving on mostly motorways for 0 miles
Mounted today, they replace the factory Toyo Pxs R55A summer tires for the winter. Obviously I didn't push them to the limit, I drove very carefully and smoothly, I can only say that the car became slightly noisier, which is quite normal for thermals, but the steering didn't seem to have become much more "empty" compared to the summer ones, in fact, it was very direct even on the centre. Always choose premium tires, it's worth it. I will update my review soon.
tire reviewed on 2024-10-31 10:42:43
Bridgestone Ecopia EP25 rated 39% while driving a Nissan Note
Driving on a combination of roads for 5000 average miles
extremely danger in wet even you drive at speed 40kM/H
tire reviewed on 2022-11-30 04:21:42
Uniroyal RainExpert 3 rated 90% while driving a Hyundai elantra
Driving on mostly town for 20 easy going miles
Handling on wet is great, they have a slight noise to them, very slight tho. We have them for a year now and after over 12 000 km they still look like new, there was no considerable expenditure on the threads.
tire reviewed on 2019-09-02 00:50:22
Maxxis Mecotra ME3 rated 0% while driving a Renault Unknown
Driving on mostly town for 12000 spirited miles
They are fitted to a mk3 clio 1.4.

They are an alright tire in the dry, reasonably quiet, comfy and have decent grip in the dry. However, anything other than dry they are terrible. Fitted to a 100hp car and it still lights up the tires in 2nd at a reasonable rpm in the wet. I've never had any tires do this in such a low hp car. When cornering, they are predictable in the wet and dry which is a plus for me. All 4 tires currently have 5mm so wear is quite good.

I know its a summer tire, but they significantly lose grip in sub 0 temps where as my older tires, dunlop sp sport 01 retained a lot more grip in less than ideal conditions.
tire reviewed on 2019-02-08 02:20:09
Falken Eurowinter HS449 rated 86% while driving a Mazda Mazda2
Driving on a combination of roads for 20000 average miles
Covered about 20,000 miles on these and they still have loads of tread left. I have had them all continuously through winter and summer alike.
Quieter than the OEM Dunlops although a 5-10% penalty at the pumps.
tire reviewed on 2018-11-01 18:53:18
Michelin Energy XM2 rated 72% while driving a Volkswagen VW up black and VW Lupo
Driving on mostly motorways for 100 average miles
I changed the originals Hankook K415 with the Energy XM2, and I found they have the same behavior than the K415, and have the same noise.

Now that use Michelin, I realize how excellent are the Hankook tires, and they costs 30% less than the Michelins.

I mean the Michelin tires are a mith.
tire reviewed on 2016-07-22 11:35:27
Toyo Proxes R39 rated 97% while driving a Unknown Unknown
Driving on for 0 miles
5000km drive in highway and national roads, excellent tire in dry the best i've ever had in wet one of them, not the best, but good enough
tire reviewed on 2016-03-05 05:32:19
Toyo Proxes R39 rated 94% while driving a Mazda Mazda2
Driving on mostly motorways for 100 average miles
Good tire Nice price quality relation
tire reviewed on 2015-09-16 17:46:00
Hankook OPTIMO K415 rated 91% while driving a Nissan Micra 1.2 SX
Driving on mostly town for 0 spirited miles
the wife has these on her micra and they are really good. they where even quite good in the snow for a summer tire.
tire reviewed on 2013-07-07 15:24:05
Toyo SNOWPROX S 942 rated 46% while driving a Toyota Avensis
Driving on a combination of roads for 0 average miles
Warning!
This is the worst winter tire i ever had.
NO GRIP ON SNOW/ICE.
On wet and dry it´s fine, and it´s sort of ok in slushy snow but as son as it gets below -5 it´s worthless.
You might just stick whit some soft compound summer tire instead.
I'm living in Sweden so i tested it a lot on real winter roads up here in the north and this is not a tire of choice.
tire reviewed on 2013-01-17 05:07:46
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