Given
91%
while driving a
Skoda Fabia vRS
(205/45 R16 W) on
a combination of roads
for 5,000
average miles
My first experience of these were a worn pair that I had fitted to replace some awful budget tyres (Infinity's). I ran the Bridgestone's on the front of my VRS (1.9 TDI) until, dare I say, probably an illegal limit.Even so they still performed better in every condition (especially the wet), than the Infinity's which had plenty of tread left.
I have since had a new pair fitted to the front, which I am pleased to say have not given me any reason to change my thoughts on this tyre. Unfortunately I am still running a pair of Infinity tyres on the back, and regardless of the condition of the Bridgestone's fitted to the front, the Infinity on the rear will let go a long time before the front does.
In the dry these tyres are as good as, if not better than any tyre I have experienced so far.
The only time that I have managed to lose grip from these Bridgestone's is during wet cornering, and it must be said that a poor driving style was needed to do this. In wet conditions full acceleration mid corner will lose traction and give under-steer, which i'm not sure any tyre would give a different result since the VRS has a large amount of torque. Otherwise I would certainly buy these tyres again as I really can not fault them in any way so far.
Obviously a cars set up will alter how they use their tyres, but I certainly haven't experenced a better tyre, specially at this price.