Given
30%
while driving a
Volvo v70 D5
(225/50 R17) on
a combination of roads
for 5,000
average miles
A truly dreadful tire with very poor wet weather performance. My car came with these, fitted by the previous owner for whom "a tire is a tire": wrong.
Fitted to a torquey car, these had negligible wet grip and couldn't put any power down at all: junctions became a nightmare and cornering grip was dreadful. They would even lose traction accelerating at 60mph in the wet. I am no boy racer, driving a Volvo V70 D5 but these tires are borderline dangerous regardless of how light-footed you are.
I am not of the 'must buy premium' persuasion and regularly use Hankook and Barum tires - these are a different matter. Regardless of price, no sane person would compromise safety to the extent that these 'black circles of death' ask you to.
At the risk of repeating, I am not heavy footed or a boy racer and I 'drive to the conditions': these tires are however, bordering on dangerous. You have been warned.