Bridgestone Potenza Sport Reviews - Page 2

I bought this set of tyres for my hobby car, which does 6000-7000 km per year. Would not recommend the Potenza Sport for a daily driver, because of extremely high wear. Other than that, exceptionally fun tyres, amazing grip on dry and wet, extremely precise steering, the most fun tyres I ever tried. My car is a FWD 3.0 V6, so it usually tends to understeer, but not with the Potenza sport, which make the car feel like a RWD. Simply amazing. As I expected, the front tyres were done really quickly.

Bought a set of these to replace a set of Goodride SA-37. Wow, these things are very sporting biased with grip levels in the dry/warm being absolutely stunning. In the wet they remain safe as houses and don't mind standing water either. All very good??? Not quite, as their performance quite dramatically drops of cliff when you get cold weather (im thinking anything a few degrees centigrade and below). Its not to the point of being dangerous (aka loosing traction), but there is noticeable difference in 'feel', as if the car is suddenly running on a set of super hard cheap rubber. I would never expect a tyre to perform 'the same' in cold conditions but the change is quite disconcerting, especially when you are used to such a high amount of grip.....Adding half an inch of snow in to the mix resulted in a car that had zero braking at all which was quite shocking (I will now not even attempt to use the car if there is a hint of snow about..... Due to sporting nature, these are also fairly noisy and I also don't think they will last very long looking at the treadwear values...... I purchased these as I had such a good price on them (must have been a mis-price by retailer to be honest, at £70 odd quid a corner and then proceeded to knock £100 off a set of 4), but i would not buy again (at full price anyway), when Michelin Sport 5's or similar tyres available at similar cost that may not be 'quite' so grippy in the warm, but less 'lifeless' in the cold an not 'lethal' in a snow flurry......

Grip is out of this world in the dry and wet and they're so sharp on the steering, however the wear is really bad. 1500 miles and a track day and both fronts were done. Don't use them on track.

Amazing performance tires. I had PS4 before and over my favourite mountains i was able to overheat. Potenza Sport on the same roads showed no dip in performance, they take longer to get heat up. In wet/cold and before they heat up they perform worse tho. Amazing tires for performance driving but you are giving up grip in worse conditions.

The tire as a whole is very nice and reliable, but care must be taken because the grip on dry when the tire is cold is less. However, once it reaches operating temperature the feeling is wonderful ! The feedback from the road and the feel in a corner is second to none. In the wet it also performs super. Just be careful on cold tarmac with cold tyres - then there is a loss of grip. I've been driving the tyres for about 8,000km, but it feels like the wear is a bit faster than I'd like.

I own a BMW X2 M35i. 225kw 450nm. It has power to burn, now it has the tyres to match it. Dry grip it’s a fair bit ahead of the Pirelli Zero, it is way ahead in the wet grip! I use to race motorcycles, so I push the car to its limit a lot. The car has a limited slip differential on the front and the steering feedback is fantastic. Braking in dry and wet conditions is sensational. I can’t understand why some reviews bag the mileage out of these, I have done almost 20k and rotated them only last week as the fronts were scuffing up on the edges compared to the rears. 30k is achievable, easily. 40psi on the front and 38psi on the rear keeps things in balance. Comfort is average, but if you want comfort buy a S class Mercedes with touring tyres. Would I buy these again, hell yes!

i'm at 8000 miles, and 2/3rds through the tread depth. Handling in aspects is excellent.

The tyres were definitely great. Overall, there is plenty of grip in the dry, and pretty good feedback. Things change a bit in the rain, I would say that grip could be better, but it could also be down to the setup. One thing to really watch out for is the wear. In my experience, they have worn quite quickly, getting to the wear marker after about 20,000km. I have to admit, I drive quite quickly, but I would have expected a bit more mileage out of these tyres. For the price, I would still recommend these tyres. They offer great value for money.

I drove 35000km on the front and changed 2 set of rear tyres.Tyre Is very good on the dry only if bring it up to temperature and the steering response feels awesome. The wet performance are good enough and the braking Is on point as long as the tires are warm. The wear Is bad if you do fast road or trackday the shoulder of the tyre It cooks loosing rubber tread. Now at the end of his Life the front end lost all of his grip Overall Is a good tyre but for the price wear and comfort I do not recommend purchasing

Well, only 60km on these tires but I know my tires and drive (test drive) about 100 cars per year so I know what to look for. Every thing Jonathan said about them (for road use) is true. Direct steering, great braking performance and probably the less comfortable option between PS4S, GY SS.... I still need to test it more but from the little I did, it's a great tire (replaced GoodYear SS)

Exemplary tyres!

Hi, I honestly don't understand the reviews that complain about the duration, wear etc etc. giving a poor or mediocre rating to this tire. These are true and pure uhp, they have a monumental grip on dry and wet, they are super direct and super precise, and they brake well, STOP. There is nothing else to add. If you don't want to hear noise, if you want to consume less and if you want them to last longer, the fault is not of these fantastic tires, but yours that you have not understood that you are a touring tire user. So low reviews that talk about wear and noise on Uhp tires are laughable!