Pirelli P 7

Not bad, standard fit to the car when new. Looking at alternatives with better 'wet' performance though.

I don't find the tyres noisy. Have been drivien them 2k miles, already starting to go off line, with dead zone, robs my confidence in driving high speed. Balanced twice still vibrates after reaching 65mph. Feedback and progressiveness is quite poor as snaps had happened with little warning, though in the wet is actually more predictable. I'm quite disappointed despite all their sucesses in motorsports, their mass market P7 doesn't seem to live up. Will try some other brand in the future.

mostly local travel but 20,000 has seen them to 1.6mm

Quite poor performance from Pirelli with these. The grip level is very low whether wet or dry, even with a pityful 170bhp. They are noisy on the motorway and offer little feedback or progressiveness (sliding badly on a wet roundabout at only 15 mph).

They do wear well, but that's the only real bonus with them.

I won't be having another set of P7's again

Positive:
Excellent handling and braking on dry.
Very good grip and braking on wet.
Low rolling resistance.
Negative:
Average aquaplaning behavior.
High road noise.

60, 000 miles in 2 V50's. Fronts lasted about 25000 miles. I replaced these at one stage with Uniroyal Rainsport 2. An expensive mistake, went back and bought more Pirellis after 600 miles of driving in jelly. Stick with the Pirellis

These tyres were OEM on my Focus Estate and my car will be three years old in October 2010. I'm really impressed with these tyres they have done 30k and are still legal (just), but equally impressive is that they still run true. No wandering or vague feelings that I've had on other tyres of a similar wear. They are a tad noisy at high speed though, but that may also be attributable to my car, just the basic "1.6 Style" model. I'm about to have P7 replacements fitted next week.

Had these P7's on the car from new and managed to get 18500 miles out of them. Wheel spin pulling away on wet or damp roads was pretty bad but felt okay on the move. Road noise was quite pronounced, especially on motorways. When the tyres got to around 14000 they began to tramline and the steering became a lot more fidgety. Decided to replace all four with Kumho KU135's but still early days as to this being the right choice. Time will tell.