Given
30%
while driving a
Audi S4
(255/35 R19) on
a combination of roads
for 2,000
average miles
Audi S4 B8 Avant, 255x35x19 AO
Coming from kumho ecsta le sport, decided on these after reading all the wonderfull 'professional' reviews. What can I say, but what an overated , overpriced tyre !
+ they absorb bumps and pot holes very well,
- from a sporty perspective they lack any reasonable cornering ability, the side walls must be made of jelly, explaining there comfort ability
- The cornering feedback if your brave enough to push them is near non existent.Certainly in the wet driving like miss daisy is the order of the day.
- The noise levels are just too high unless you wear ear defenders, put the pressure up to Audis recommended 41/41 to try to make them have some sort of handling ability and enter tramlining and braking instability and even more noise on anything but a perfect sealed surface.
Run them at audi's normal 36/33 and just forget any kind of sporty driving, but at least then they don't tramline.
And just to add to the expensive insult the fuel economy goes through the floor.
Cant truly comment on wear as couldn't stand them any longer so scrapped them at 2000 miles.
Have now fitted Dunlop sportmaxx RT, and the difference is truly night and day,ive got my audi S4 back again !!, will do a review of these when ive done some more miles.