Audi A3 Sport Tyres:

I bought a full set of these tyres for a resonable price, I found them to be an instant trasformation on the handling and fell of the car, I found the road noise reduction to be incredible too. Alot of happy miles with these tyres and fantastic grip in the dry and wet, although I would say when below a few mm left on the tyre the performance does drop in both dry and wet conditions, I will be purchasing 2 new pirelli p6's in the very near future.

Recommended.

I've done approximately 8,000 miles on these on the front of an Audi A3 2.0TDI (140bhp/236 lb-ft)

Dry weather, these things stick to the road like nothing I've ever experienced. They literally eat every corner an spit it out laughing screaming to go harder. I really have to go into a corner trying my absolute hardest to get them to step out an even when they do it's so manageable an predictable.

Wet weather, still a very acceptable amount of grip around corners (not forgetting they are predominantly summer tyres) but I could still manage to get the traction control to flash up on the dash when accelerating hard in 2nd gear.

I've got about 3mm left after the 8,000 miles but I have spent 90% of the time on the motorway which isn't to great, the other 10% I've been giving them a hard time. So I've just switched them onto the rear axle now an got a set of Michelin Pilot Primacy on the front.

For the level of grip these tyres give, (saved my front bumper on a few occasions) with one or two emergency stops I'd definitely say they are worth it.

But for that price you have to be willing to get some new rubber in the not so distance future.

Road feedback was a little hard to judge as anyone who's driven an A3 will tell you - the car has none at all. Wet and dry grip very good, and wear excellent. Not hugely progressive at the limit but that may be down to the car again.

These are good tyres. Eagle F1's are still the best tyre I've used although on my previous car (a Vectra). The only other tyres I've used on my A3 were Dunlop SP 9000's on 17" manufacturer alloys. These 19" ZZ3's were on replicate RS4 wheels.

These have lasted fairly well, the rears still have plenty of life in them - the fronts are finished now I've done 14k miles on them.

I can't rate the progressiveness and feedback - the steering on my A3 is somewhat over assisted and the progressiveness on 19's is always going to lack slightly. I don't think I've pushed them enough in the corners to offer an opinion.

Due to a puncture in back near side and buckling the front near side on bl**dy pot holes I've unconsciously run these tyres at low PSI (9 on the rear, possibly lower on the front) without a problem - not for extended periods but for sufficient time to get me to a garage. Re-inflate them and they ran fine again - hope this dispells comments about this tyre having thin side walls.

Road noise could be better but again, I've only run these on my 19's so can't compare with other manufacturers. I don't think it's fair to rate the comfort on such low profile (235/35/19's) - it's pretty hard. One of the reasons I'm dropping back to 17" alloys is comfort.

Dry grip was good when they had more tread, it's still not bad, only suffering from wheel spin in 2nd and, if I was in the right rev range, 3rd (TDI 2.0 remapped to 170bhp, 380Nm torque).

Wet performance wasn't too much different, easier to spin the wheels up, never really had any scary moments on them in the wet otherwise.

If you've found a good price on these I'd recommend them.

I've made a smooth wear of the tyres in the first 2500 miles to make sure they were not burnout prematurely.
Afterwards they just lasted quite good.
negative feedback for driving in hot summer days, the ruber just melts down!

I thought that I would go for a cheaper tyre to the Conti Sport Contacts that I had on before - to save money. However after only 11,500 miles on the front they will need replacing soon. With the Contis I could get 20,000 to 22,000 from the front (and 35k on the back). So they have ended up costing me more!!

I will be going back to the Contis, better grip and feel, plus last twice as long.

Had four on an Audi A3 sport, within 2 weeks I had two tyres that had bulged and not touched a single curb, decided to scrap them and go for Goodyear Eagle F1 which I was really impressed with. However I sold the audi and unfortunately ended up with 2 on the rear of this Clio I have now, never have I had a front wheel drive car, let alone a Clio which are reputedly good handling have it's rear end slide out with such ferociousness. Even after correcting the oversteer the tyres bit an spun me back round the opposite direction spinning me 270 degrees off of a roundabout exit.

Never ever going anywhere near this absolute awful tyres ever again! They should be illegal.

WISHY WASHY DRY GRIP, POOR STEERING FEEDBACK, SLOGGISH RESPONSE. TENDANCY TO UNDERSTEER AND DRIFT IN CORNERS, NEVER REALLY DUG IN. WAY TOO HARD COMPOUND FOR SERIOUS SPORTS CAR GRIP. WET WEATHER PERFORMANCE 'SQUIRRELY' OVER WHITE LINES, TAR LINES, NO FEELING OF THE ROAD AT ALL IN HEAVY RAIN, UNDERSTEER BADLY IN THE WET.
PERVIOUS TYRES YOKOHAMA PARADA SPEC 2 - THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON, THE YOKOS EXCEED THESE IN EVERY RESPECT.

Horrific!!! In the dry they're very poor, very weak side wall, little to no feedback & wheelspin frequently creating a bonecrunching judder as they attempt to find traction. Now in the wet they are positively lethal, taking a simple light turn off on a roundabout and you end up having to carry on as they fail to turn in. This maybe down to my heavy right foot, but a tyre should do it's job which is to give you grip. Should be banned before they kill someone!!!