Given
33%
while driving a
Skoda
(235/40 R19) on
mostly country roads
for 20,000
spirited miles
The tire makes driving the 190 HP Skoda superb with front wheel drive very unpleasing. The car front grip is non existent accellerating out of corners on dry, on wet there the grip is very bad without accellerating already. The comfort is very poor, the tire is too soft, despite having above recommended tire pressure, the car keep on bounces at every bump. The middle sections of the tires still have some 4mm thread left, the inner sides no longer have any thread (tires were rotated, so all 4 are threadless on inner sides), outter sides have about of 1mm thread left.
The car being driven from new and the tires being factory fitted in 235/40 R19, i thought it was just a shitty car. Coming from the C6 A6 3.0 TDI quattro, i just thought it was shitty because it's a skoda. Fitting winter tires showed, that the culprit was in fact the shitty bridgestone S001 tires.
The tires are loud as hell on highway speeds, on normal roads the noise is ok.
A very very bad tire, despite being priced rather high.