Yokohama S306

These were fitted to the car when I bought it and were awful in the wet. Trying to pull out at anything other than a snails pace caused the wheels to spin up and hill starts (I live in a very hilly area) were often a chore if heavily loaded. Also, the side walls were/are really very stiff which caused the car's steering to tramline like a b**ch, the ride to be unsettled and a hude amount of tyre roar. Whilst the wear rate was ok, for the money that cost there are better tyres out there.

I've tried Continental, Michellin Energy Saver, Avon ZV3. They came with the Mazda3, I bought second hand from the dealership recently. Absolutely fine in the dry, even at high speed.
But I would go as far to say - UNSAFE in the slightest hint of wet, when cornering on roundabouts. They wheel spin at 2000rpm in the wet and slide like crazy on a dual carriageway roundabout (40mph). Anything above 25mph and you are stuffed.
They seem to wear pretty well, I've done 4000miles.

I've just got rid of these tyres after hating driving my R32 for two years and it turns out it was the tyres all along. Comfort? These things remind me of the solid tyres on my tricycle. In all other respects they were fine, maybe even good or very good but it made driving a car that's built to do 150mph feel so uncomfortable and so unstable at anything over about 80 that I wouldn't want to go any faster. They get ten stars for feedback because you could tell which way up the coin was when you ran it over and that's not a good thing!

If i were a dart player then i'd score them as a "180". Up till now i had only used continental tyres, and on my MG ZT i used to just scpape through the 20K mark. these Yokoharma's have just turned 25K and still have approximatly 2K+ left on. WOO!!! I now have a Skoda Supurb and the thing that i realy like about these tyres is the extra thick wall that helps to protects my alloys, even if you just scrape the curb. I'm not a fast driver, 55 and hit the cruse control, thats me. Good grip and control in all weathers, including the snow, yes. Will i buy again, "YES", i'm now checking the internet for best possible price.

I have tried several tyres, will review them all here....
these were great in the dry when new and still good after several k's but didnt last long enough. still the best tyres so far....
also tried - toyo proxies, michelin sport, p6000, pzero's.

Fitted 2 x yokohama s306 on both front corners of my audi a3 2.0 tdi 8p.
I got them at a good price from blackcircles so i thought i'd give them a go. On the dry they're fine and handle ok...but on a wet surface they're terrible!! just going round a bend at 20 mph the car slides... not good!!!! going to put them on the back and go back to my pirelli 6000s.

The best good priced tyre I have ever had. I drive quite hard and have never had a problem with these Tyres, neither in dry or wet conditions. I didn't have any wear problems with the yokos as I did with other Tyres of the same price. I did find in the snow that they gripped really well and always passed other less unfortunate drivers, but I did have traction control so tale it with that in mind. I now have a Mondeo TDI and will be changing the cheap budgets It has on it with S306s when they are worn out.

I have had 2 sets of these on my 2003 tdci mondeo 130bhp and they outperform the Avon zz3 and the michelin pilot sport2 as far as I am concerned (both of which I have had on the same car) Great grip in all conditions, even seemed to get me about in the snow without any scary moments. Would recommend these for a Mondeo any day of the week! Maybe they are less good on other cars, I know they are not as good on a Mazda 3 2.0 sport (the Mrs car) but for that I recommend Toyo Proxes T1R