215/40 R18 Tires

After 62000 my ContiSportContact 5 got very harsh and noisy.

Wanted more confortable and silent sporty tires.

Was between the Pilot Sport 5 and the Ventus Evo.
Price and the 2026 Summertire review did the rest!

Tried on highway, mountain roads.and city driving.

They are very nice, silent, progressive, and more confortable than the CSC5 as new! Very nice indeed as my car has a hard suspension and very low tires.

Hoping for good grip in the wet too...

A very good stock Sport tire, they lasted way beyond expected (62000km/7 years), rotated at 30000km (usually at 20000Km but forgot).
The rears are perfect worn, the fronts have some dry rot in last months.

I've been driving smoothly, only push them ocasionally on curvy, mountain and B roads.

Very good handling in perfect roads, dry or wet, never failed, but too harsh besides that and scary on potholes, but it is a 40 profile and the car suspension is too hard too... I can feel everything on the road, anything, these tires seem like a block.

A little noisy and too pointy for me, could be more predictable and progressive at the edge and smoother to my liking.

Hope the next ones will be Hankook Ventus Evo or Michelin Pilot Sport 5 (too expensive).

I’ve used them on the i20N and 208 GTI. They take a while to warm up, but once they do, the handling is fantastic. The compound is quite hard. This makes them a bit uncomfortable, but the durability is superb. They tend to slip a lot when cold. The performance in the rain is definitely poor. I had no complaints about noise levels. A top-tier tire for use in dry and hot weather.

Continental WinterContact TS870P – 215/40 R18 | Hyundai i20N These are the first winter tires on my Hyundai i20N, so I have no direct back-to-back comparison on this car. They came with the car from the previous owner, with an estimated 2,000–4,000 miles already on them (+my 7500 miles), and they currently have around 5+mm of tread remaining. The majority of my use is highway commuting (80%+ of total distance), with occasional backroads and corners mixed in. This is where the TS870P genuinely impresses. Both in dry and wet conditions, grip levels feel confidence-inspiring. I consistently feel like there's a little more in reserve before reaching the limit. Wet cornering in particular was a highlight; turn-in feels planted and the front end grips well. There is an occasional hint of understeer at the initial turn-in moment, which is worth noting for sporty driving, though it never felt unsettling, likely a combination of the tire's characteristic and the FWD layout of the i20N. Only experienced light snow, so take this with a grain of salt. Braking confidence felt lower than what I remembered from the Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 on my previous BMW F31 xDrive but that's AWD vs. FWD, so the comparison isn't exactly fair. I may also have simply been more cautious. No ice experience to report. Road noise is noticeable, but the i20N is a stiff, sporty car it's not a quiet cruiser to begin with. Within that context, highway comfort was perfectly fine and I have no real complaints. The 215/40 R18 size limits your options, and the Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 in this size costs significantly more. Whether I repurchase depends on how the wear looks after next winter. Using Tire Reviews as a guide, if anything ranked above the Continental can be found at a better price in this size, that'll be worth exploring. So far, a solid, well-priced winter tire for daily and highway use. Wet grip is the highlight.

I bought the Kinergy 4S2 as a winter tire, in central europe we have usually mild winters with mostly wet and slush, so a wet focused all-season seemed like a good idea, and the 4S2 had a good price in my stupid size.
TL;DR: It was, I’m 95% satisfied with the performance
Dry: Well, it’s an all season on a sporty car, and i didn’t drive it in the summer heat, so not much to talk about. The grip is good, it doesn’t soften up too much in highway drive in ~15C (the warmest it seen), the handling isn’t too fun, but communicative. The comfort is good (way better than the OE PZ4 ofc), but it is quite loud @70/140kph (some sort of resonance, it was bad in the first 500km, then got better). It’s slightly better than a full winter, and that was my goal.
Wet: My point with the tire choice was to handle cold (below 5C) wet, and it nailed it. It has absolutely no grip issues in cold wet, even in the usual salted up/slushy 0C winter roads, or deeper water, it feel just like driving in a summer rain. This comes with the compromise, that the wet grip doesn’t get better with warmer (10-15C) temps, it was weird at first, but i guess that’s a design choice, and i like it.
Snow: Now, that we finally got proper winter, i can say that in fresh or slightly packed snow, these feel just like real winter tires, the grip is good, the balance was perfect (even playful). However, as we move from fresh snow to more packed/icy snow or full ice, the grip dropped drastically (it does with any tire, but less with full winters). It was ok-ish for just getting from A to B, but you really felt the lack of sipes.
Wear/fuel use: I didn’t drive too much on them yet, but they seem to handle the agressive suspension/LSD/torque of the I20N well, there is no significant wear (the OE Pirellis died way quicker lol). The fuel use is hard to tell, it dropped a bit vs PZ4s, but i think the new PS5 set going up in spring well be even better.
As conclusion, i love the tires, if i drove in the mountains i’d need real winters, but currently they perfectly fit my sporty-ish mild winter tire needs (CC3S wasn’t yet on the market, and tbh I’m slightly concerned about the low starting tread depth of them). So, defo buy again, or maybe try something else for curiosity, oor 4S3? :D

I put about 14,000 miles on my GR86 OE tires, including 3 hot track weekends. They are about down to the wear bars now, which isn't bad considering how gnarly they looked after each track weekend. 

The biggest con with the PS4 for this application was probably the road noise. I know it drives some people nuts. For me it was noticeable but acceptable. The car always handled great on them, and even at the track they did well enough. Very predictable, though they would get pretty greasy feeling. Totally reasonable given the nature of the tire.

The biggest surprise for me was how uniformly and cleanly they wore down despite ~2 degrees negative camber all around. I've had issues with some other summer tires wearing abnormally, with or without camber.

I didn't spend much time in the wet with them, let alone driving hard in the wet. But any time I did, they again did well enough. 
I will likely replace them with the PS5.