Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3

These tires are not for snow! Or the ice!

These are great summer tires! Ignorant!

Excellent allround tyres on a Landrover Discovery although wear rate is high and the new prices are extortionate. I picked my set up brand new with brand new L/R wheels off a Range Rover Sport 4 years ago for £400 plus delivery. Bargain.

I had these fitted to 1988 BMW 530i all round to get rid of the rubbish budgets it had when I bought it. As expected it transformed the drive of the car. Much more than I expected, these are so quiet compared to before. The dry and wet grip is awesome! Ive never had the back end kick out once, its like driving on rails now.

As for the reviews about using them in the snow they obvously overlooked the fact these are summer tyres! They were never made to be used in the snow.

If you want a great summer tyre with loads of grip rain or shine then these are what you need!

Very good tyres for their current price. Definitely much better than the Eagle NCT5's the car came with.

Superb grip which I imagine is the idea for this car - built and geared largely for acceleration. Very noisy and harsh, the wear is not too bad for a car 'derestricted' to about 425 BHP - I drive gently and expect to get about 20000. The noise and stiffnes just gives a coarse ffeling to the ride. Not many tyres this size to choose from but am just about to try a set of pilot Sports (£1170) and see how they go.

These are the first Premium tyres I have ever purchased, with many pros and cons.

Handling & Performance - With a reasonable tread these were awsome on cornering and grip but they grip the road too well which leads to problems with handling on deviations in the road surface. This is something that gets worse the more the tyre wears. Accelerating from a standstill however has resulted in zero skids even in the wet. I have noticed however that the tyres are not very good in the snow. They can get up a hill no problem but even light breaking on compacted snow causes the ABS to kick in.

Comfort - The compound of the tyres must be quite hard as you do feel every bump and pot hole which does not make for a comfortable ride. As a result, i've had to replace 2 front coil springs and an ABS ring within the last 12 months.

As these are run flat tyres you can safely drive them to a garage when flat without having to lower your speed to a crawling pace or shread the tyre. With budget or some mid range tyres I used to constantly get screw and nail punctures but in the 2 years I've had these i've not had one.

Overall - Great for grip, reasonable tyre wear, hard to puncture but poor handling below 3m tread (pulling side to side).

These tyres are great if you don't live in the real world or drive your car on real roads. The grip in the dry is amazing and you can do things with the that you would struggle to do with any other tyre.

However, when the roads get a bit damp these things are lethal. Grip on ice and snow does not exist. I was unaware that there was an incline from my house up to the main road until I got these tyres. The first light frost we had and that was it for going to work until mid morning. I also didn't expect comfort from them but the ride was truely awful. Wear was another big downside. I don't have the most powerful car but having got 35000 miles out of a set of Michelin Pilot Sports I was a bit grumpy when these lasted for fewer than 12000.

If you drive a nice car on a few dry days in the summer and you want to have some fun these are the ones for you. if you use your car like a normal person try something else.

If you are looking for a tyre with a reasonable life expectancy don't buy these.

Managed just 5000 miles on the front and require replaced. Much better with Michelin Primacy Sport.

these are very cheap now as they are no longer made , but still a fantastic tyre , grip very very well in the dry and also good in the wet with unbeatable resistance to aquaplaning, this is my second set, only problem is that they really need to be changed before they get to the wear indicator , they dont grip near as well once they go below 3mm , other than that great tyre now a bargain buy