Vauxhall Adam S Tyres

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Tyre Reviewed Dry Grip Wet Grip Feedback Handling Wear Comfort
Accelera PHI R (28) 77% 50% 68% 69% 65% 73%

Vauxhall Adam S Tyre Review Highlights

Writing about the Accelera PHI R given 40% (225-35-18-)
Driving on a combination of roads for 3000 spirited miles
Dry Grip - given the price of the tyre, just £61.99 a corner, you really cannot ask for more grip than what it has on offer. What these tyres can offer in the dry for the price is nothing short of very impressive

Wet Grip - I cannot even put in to words just how dreadful these are in the wet. It feels like I am driving on slicks. I think just about the only positive thing I can say it is the back end doesn't want to come around when lifting off the throttle, but that is likely only because of the utterly insane amount of understeer these have. Even at a normal road driving pace, going around roundabouts it wants to send you in to the curb. It will push wide if you even look at the throttle the wrong way. In the UK considering it rains as much as it does, they are bloody dangerous.

Road Feedback - really just doesn't talk to me at all. Am I understeering? How much grip is left? Am I about to run out? Who knows, because these tyres have their lips sealed. Coupled with the atrocious wet grip, you don't really know you are about to or are already understeering until it is about to send you in to the curb. In the dry it is good enough, but it just doesn't really tell me what it's limits are making it hard to really press on.

Wear - I can't comment on this, they were so bad in the wet that I had to take them off after just 3000 miles

Comfort - it is a 225/35 18 tyre so it is only bound to be so comfortable. The side wall does feel very stiff, it jitters about and big bumps are back breaking. It reminds me a bit of run-flats.

Buy again - if we lived in a dry world and I was on a tight budget, honestly for anyone not eeking out every percent of their vehicle and really looking for a dynamic drive, these are brilliant. Downright groundbreaking for £61.99 a tyre dare I say. But unfortunately that isn't the real world, and a tyre where I fear the poor weather as if I have to avoid an accident these will likely fail miserably, it is not fun to own.

Not only that but they were so bad that if the weather forecast said rain it would genuinely ruin my drive, any slight dampness on the road would mean fun out of the window and a fight for not understeering in to a ditch. Just to give some perspective, my new Continental Sport Contact 7's are a joy to drive. If anything I get excited for some rain every now and then as it means grip limits are lower, meaning more playing about with the chassis without the risk factors being as high.
tyre reviewed on 2024-03-19 10:14:33
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