Pirelli P 7 Reviews - Page 5

The Pirelli P7 is an absolutely awful tyre and I'm amazed that Pirelli put their name to it. On rear wheel drive cars such as my Mercedes I would say that they were so awful as to be almost dangerous, they slip and slide everywhere they have extremely poor grip in all weather conditions to the point where I am changing them even though they still have plenty of tread left because I just don't trust them to keep my car on the road.

Not very good. My Audi was originally specced with Pirelli P6000 which are awful, P7 are not much better. The only thing that I like is that the riding quality is well matched to the Audi suspension. The other pair of tyres on the car is Hankook K115 (excellent). I rotate my tyres fairly often and its obvious that the Pirellis are not even on the same page. Wet grip is very poor, the car understeers much earlier and is less resistant to aqauplaning. ABS kicks in earlier too. It also tramlines much more noticeably and is less directionally stable at high speed. I cant say I have found them noisy however and I think part of the reason for lack of wet performance is a good wear rate. They arent cheap and other cheaper brands (Hankook, Kumho etc) do it all much better.

Pirelli p7 cinturato is very bad tyre.

Bought them on April 2011 to replace the rubbish Bridgestones it has before. Compared to the Bridgestone Turanza ER30s these were much better. The car was instantly transformed. Road noise, tyre roar, road feedback and progressiveness was much improved. Overall very happy with P7s but I wouldnot buy them again as there are many other tyres which are better. The reason I got Pirellis was because I have never used Pirellis before and just wanted to see how good or bad they are. Might get Continental or Michelin or even Dunlop. Very happy indeed.

Front tyre on Honda FRV. Overall tyre have been good but down to legal limit after only 16500 miles and therefore have not lasted as long as I would have wanted. I am not heavy driver.

Difficult to compare as only tyres I have had on this volvo v50 so far. Wear is good - expecting 25000 on front and more on rear, but subjectively I think they seem noisy and rough though some of this may be the car itself. Going to try conti's next

Not bad, standard fit to the car when new. Looking at alternatives with better 'wet' performance though.

I don't find the tyres noisy. Have been drivien them 2k miles, already starting to go off line, with dead zone, robs my confidence in driving high speed. Balanced twice still vibrates after reaching 65mph. Feedback and progressiveness is quite poor as snaps had happened with little warning, though in the wet is actually more predictable. I'm quite disappointed despite all their sucesses in motorsports, their mass market P7 doesn't seem to live up. Will try some other brand in the future.

mostly local travel but 20,000 has seen them to 1.6mm

Quite poor performance from Pirelli with these. The grip level is very low whether wet or dry, even with a pityful 170bhp. They are noisy on the motorway and offer little feedback or progressiveness (sliding badly on a wet roundabout at only 15 mph).

They do wear well, but that's the only real bonus with them.

I won't be having another set of P7's again

Positive:
Excellent handling and braking on dry.
Very good grip and braking on wet.
Low rolling resistance.
Negative:
Average aquaplaning behavior.
High road noise.

60, 000 miles in 2 V50's. Fronts lasted about 25000 miles. I replaced these at one stage with Uniroyal Rainsport 2. An expensive mistake, went back and bought more Pirellis after 600 miles of driving in jelly. Stick with the Pirellis