2018 Auto Bild All Season Tyre Test

I am trying to decide if if I should switch from my Falken Eurowinters (HS449) to an all season tyre. I drive a 2009 Volvo V70 estate, which can easily lose its grip in the snow, and I live in Sheffield, full of hills, so though snow is not present all winter, when it comes it does a good job of shutting the place down!). But I am confused by the AutoBild data and indeed your comments on it. Particularly the comments comparing with the Summer reference in wet braking.

For the Winter tyre test (http://www.tyrereviews.co.u... the summer ref is 35.9m and several of the Winter tyres easily beat it. Yet for the data above, even though the Summer ref is higher (41.4m), none of the All Seasons beat it and still they are all presented as better than the Winter ref at 53.4m. In the Winter tyre test, however, the worst winter tyre still manages 38.2m (link above). What's going on? From one test (Winter) I should conclude that Winter tyres are better than Summer in the wet braking, yet in the other I have to conclude that All Seasons are not even though they are better than the Winter ref?!

Let me know who I should contact at Autobild to let them know they need a scientist involved (I am one!). In the meantime, I have one Falken wearing more than the the other 3 (which have a bunch of tread left); to switch to an all season means I am going to have to buy 4 (in stead of just replacing the one Falken); not really worth it, is it?!

Hello! I'm trying to decide which allseason tyres to fit under my Ford Fiesta 2014. Since I have 16 inch rims, I have to keep height 45, which prohibits me from a Continental or Goodyear all season tyre unfortunately.

I'm currently thinking about the Bridgestone Weather control A005 or the Vredestein Quatrac 5. I'm from the south of the Netherlands and it's mostly dry and wet road conditions here, with maybe a couple of days snow a year. Bridgestone seems the better choice, but I've read reviews saying they're awfull in the snow. Plus they have a higher noise level. Vredestein seems like the more allround with a lower noise level, they perform well in the snow, but less so in the dry and wet than the Bridgestones.
Which should I get?

Hi, I currently have Pirelli Scorpion Verde AS tires in size 245 / 50R20 on my car. I am currently looking for new tires. In my size, I found only the Goodyear Eagle Sport AS model. Do you recommend these tires? Will they be better than current Pirelli?

I'm going to buy a new set of all-season tyres. I live on the coast, 5Km from the sea (Italy): november-march it's rainy (average temperature 7-12°C) or it's sunny (average temperature 0-4°C in the morning when I go to work), summer very hot (average temperature 25-30°C), the snow is a rare and fast event. I've seen Bridgestone (dry and wet performance, planned and tested in Italy), but also Goodyear is interesting (dry-wet-snow-comfort-noise-wear). I want a tyre good for dry and wet (braking and handling), good aquaplaning performance, snow performance isn't very important. Now I've got Vredestein Quatrac 3: the braking on dry street is poor (ABS usually active), good aquaplaning performance, wear about 43.000Km. I drive on some streets with obbligation for snow tyres. My daily job route (monday-friday) is 18Km on flat land (city and suburban) but 6Km on hill as far as 550m altitude: temperature a little lower, more probality of snowing (3-5 day each year - but the street covered by the snow is impossible), many curves and hairpin bends, it'possible ice on the street. What tyre do you advice me?

all that depends on the outside temperature, doesn't it? what about summer tyre in dry -0C and allseason tyre in dry +30C?

hi How do you test for comfort is it an objective test or subjective?

We can't choose between the Continental and the Goodyear for our Corsa. It has 15 inch tyres.
We live in the Netherlands and it's raining more than that it's snowing. Seems these tyres are quite even in their performance.

I tend more to Goodyear, but I would like to receive some advice.

Last year the weather is my region was mostly wet and rarely snowy. But somedays it was really hard to drive because it was snowy and slippery. So tires like the A005 are not worth a discussion in my area. I guess the A005 would be absolute horrible if it don´t have the full tread.
Bridgestone actually don´t have a winter tyre which I can call a winter tyre, the LM001 Evo would probably beaten by most all season tyres in the snow. And it was far away from all other winter tyres in the Michelin 2mm-test

Wow, that Bridgestone Weather control A005 seems to be a fantastic tyre for Southern UK and Dutch climate. Even though it's placed last in this test. Snow handling is just less important in these regions.