Bridgestone Potenza S001 Reviews - Page 2

Fitted to a company car so have no choice but to use them. I do about 30k a year and have found these tyres to be underwhelming at best. Tyre wear is poor for a car that does most of its miles on the motorway, often needing new ones at only 15k, my Jaguar XF fitted with Dunlop's would do 30k in a heavier more powerful car. Dry grip is OK as long as its warmish, wet / cold grip is very poor. The tyre feels OK but its hard to tell as the car, Lexus IS300h, is not a sporty drive but is very comfortable which I think effects the ride more than the tyres. Overall would not put these on if the car was mine.

After 2 years and 3,500 miles the outside sidewalls of all 4 tyres began cracking and crazing on contacting Bridgestone I was given numerous "excuses" including u/v light,tyre dressing,short journeys and road contaminants in my reply I had to asked the technician why he had not including Covid and Climate Change amongst these comical excuses. I have previously run Bridgestone on my last 2 cars,both purchased from new, and not had any complaints but will now fit my car with Dunlop Maxx ,which were on the car when purchased from new and were good for 20k, something I regret not doing in the first place but I had always preferred Bridgestone until now.I can only add that the response and service I received from Bridgestone regarding the matter was pathetic and definitely not what I expected from a company of this stature!
G.Hall

These are not premium grade tyres despite the price very disappointing.handles poorly,buy Continental or Michelin for same price and they’re night and day superior.

The tire is loud and wears terribly. I drive on the hiway to and from work. All the road is good, with one curve. They handle decently. Dry anyways. Wet, not so much. 15,000 miles and they’re worn out. It’s not a sporty drive. It’s straight, in the country with one curve. We’re not formula one driving. Way, WAY too expensive to buy again. 15,000 miles? No way.

Not bad in the dry, bad in wet/greasy conditions and absolutely useless in any amount of snow, even 1cm causes a very noticeable lack of grip.

The wear rate in the beginning is pretty significant, i bought the car used, so i cant provide exact rates, but the rate slows down as the tire gets older. But it also gets way worse, the wet traction is horror. The dry performance is pretty good and the handling is quite nice, but that is to the expense of comfort. You can really feel any bump in the road and it ruins the experiance on longer drives in my Seat Leon FR from 2018.

These tyres are nasty. Poor in the dry and borderline dangerous in the wet. Noisey, provide minimal feedback and when they slide there is next to no warning or progression. They came on a new Golf Mk7 GTI and then a MK8 GTI. Removed from both cars once the engines were bedded in (circa 1,000 miles) and replaced with Pilot Sport tyres instead. Why VW fit this garbage on a ‘sporty’ car I have no idea. Presumably they get a good deal on a 12 year old design from Bridgestone.

Come fitted from Seat factory, 19" are terrible tyres. Really poor wet performance with poor grip and skipping from a standing start Winter/Snow they are useless, 1cm of snow and there's no grip, they are that bad I don't use the car if it snows. Unfortunately it's a lease car so they won't let me change them. Due to change cars shortly and certainly won't be getting another Seat with these tyres fitted.

Came as standard on my '21 Megane RS 300 Stupid good grip in the dry, but I think that's more the car/4 wheel steer than the tires. Nontheless, very good. SKETCHY in the wet. More than 25% throttle in 2nd or 50% throttle in 3rd and the fronts are spinning. This car has a tendency to spin the fronts but it's laughably bad in the wet with these tires. And the lateral grip is even worse, I went a little hot into a roundabout when I first got the car, wet morning, nobody around, ended up more sideways that I've ever been in a FWD car, hit the steering lock counter steering. To give credit, the side was easier to control than expected, but still shouldn't have happened. No bueno. Everything else is good to average. Will be buying PS5 when these die, but they're 14k miles in and still have 4mm front 5mm rear so wear is excellent.

The tyre is good for grip & not to bad in the snow & wet weather not bad on fuel. Comfortable is ok. I can get about 12,500-17,500 miles from the front tyres you still have about 1.8 - 2m left of tyres. & the rear tyres about 34,000-40,000 miles & you have about 1.6 - 2m left of tyres tread. In my experience I would buy again & give it 9/10

Shockingly bad in the wet. I have new 7 series xDrive. Tyres were produced 8 weeks ago and fitted 2 weeks ago. Drove through roundabout at moderate speed in the rain, under steer (in xDrive!) and slides 1 meter almost crashing into another car on the round about. On the way back on motorway standard 70 mph, some rain and when chanting lanes back or the car lost grip twice (oversteer). Premium tyres recommended as best for 7 series by BMW!!! Those are the worst tyres I ever had and it costed me £1500 (rear tyres wider and more expansive). Stay away from those.

Tyre came with my Audi from factory and it as awesome. Lasted 5 summers - about 75k km. Drove across Europe, on autobahn and on Nirburgring. Will buy again this or the tyre that replaced it - Potenza Sport - whichever I can get the best deal on.