Goodyear EfficientGrip

Second review having completed a further 4000miles on these tyres. I liked them before and still do. I have the XL version so maybe stiffer sidewalls but have never felt this "Jelly" some other people talk about. They seem ideal for my style of driving and the car, both of which are less than "spirited". Great touring tyre, just about to get two more for the front as I don't go below 2.5mm. I agree that legally they have some more life in them.

Let me begin by saying I have only owned the car for 1 month and it came with some worn out Bridgestone on the front and and worn Michelin's on the rear. I used this as part of the haggle. Handling was unusual to say the least. When you are looking to replace all tyres with a potential spend of £500+ you do some research. I had the chance to get 4 Goodyear EfficientGrip's for a very good price and of course you are suspicious. I read reviews, researched prices but had to go for them. I have had them fitted and what a difference, quiet, positive feedback, good handling with the potential of saving some money on fuel as well. As with all tyres they are better when warm but I gave them a good thrash on some local country roads the other night and it was like a different car. At this early stage I have little to compare them with on this car but so far I would recommend them. I made a point of noting how the other tyres handled before and after the change. I also looked to note the jelly like feel described by other reviewers and in all honesty I cannot feel it. After fitting I checked all tyre pressures and set them exactly to Audi's recommended psi and these tyres are spot on. I will come back and review these tyres next autumn when I have used them for 6 months to report mpg and wear but first impressions count and I am pleased. I think I will take the car out fora Sunday morning thrash just to check them again now:)

Have had these in place of michelin energy saver tyres, have now done around 2000 miles now and am very pleased with these tyres. Noticeable difference in drive, softer and more smoother than michelins, hard corning is noticeable in comparassion to the michelins, wet grip is as very good, as well as dry grip, no noticable wear yet or difference in fuel consumption. Subject to some reviews on these tyres i would deffinatly recommend these tyres to anyone.

these tyres came stock with my ford focus 2012. 180bhp but auto gearbox.

handling of my ford was good. good feedback. however, when the rain starts to pour, my ford it terrible!

so my friend begged me to change my tyres. i did. i changed my tyres to Michelin PS3.

these tyres really transformed my car. from a good handling car, it is now brilliant. feedback was fantastic and in the rain, it no longer a hovercraft!!

the EfficientGrip should be called, EfficientCrap. it is terrible.

Well ive only had these tyres for a couple of weeks and they are fine, good grip all the time and road noise seems ok.Not really tried them in the wet yet but dont race about in the wet anyway unless your stupid!Am going to get some more for the back soon.

Its a fairly ideal tyre for my fairly unexciting diesel estate. Decent grip (wet grip) - given the kind of tyre it is. They lasted 20,000 miles on the front (2L focus estate) of mixed driving. At that stage the rears were about half or two-thirds worn.

I liked them enough to buy another pair at the front.

Traffic light racers should be looking elsewhere TBH - there's a reason I didn't pick these out for our other car (mk4 golf gti).

I bought these tyres about 8 months ago and about 30,000km ago.

dry grip is decent.
wet grip is dodgy, aquaplane a few times. and i wasnt even driving quickly.
feedback is non-existant. power steering? maybe
wear is ok, looking at the wear at 30,000km. i think it still has 30% left. which is ok.
comfort is poor or bad. its not the noisiest tyre around but it was touted as the quiet tyre. So it should really be quieter. my Continental premium contact 2 were much much quieter.

not getting it ever again.

advertised as the quiet tyre.

so the question would be. is it really quiet?

yes. and no.

on perfect surfaces, its mightily quiet. but you'd expect that from most tyres.

on poor surfaces, its decent. its not the quietest (i think one of previous Michelins were quieter). it does vibrate quite a lot of concrete roads.

so thats my take.

These tyres are fitted to the police cars that i drive and i drive cautiously but then when on blue light considerably quicker than most.

Under normar driving i find the tyres comfortable but at the same time noisy. it doesnt take much at all to have the tyres squeeling around corners even at 30 or 40 mph. They are ok in the wet and in the dry but i wouldnt rate then anywhere near a performance tyre.

When pushing the car i find there is very little feedback through the corners and there is definately the jelly like feel that folk talk about. again very noisy but still maintain straight line stability at 120mph. the handling is predictable but at the same time you are predocting that you are not going to have much grip. braking isnt the best and i say that they tyres stop me using the braking power in the car to its full potential.

I cant really comment on life or fuel efficiency as i so a lot of my mileage on the limit of grip they do handle reasonably well in the snow compared to other summer tyres.

Although they are an all round decent tyre i wouldnt buy them for my own car and certainly wouldnt be paying top dollar for them. for general day to day driving they are perfectly fine other than a bit of road noise but this is made worse by having an estate car.