MINI Cooper Tyres

I am a Driving Instructor and was told to always fit Budget tyres, tried that i can honestly say you do get what you pay for, that's until i tried the NT5000 i am on my second set, golf TDI, and now mini cooper D, quiet, comfortable, (improvement on run-flats) great grip wet, or dry, sidewalls do help keep my alloys as they should be too, pity they are a little short of sizes, wonder what they are like in Snow.

Excellent tyres for the money, £240 fitted all round. Grip is very good (wet or dry), and when they have let go (they won't on a public road unless you are driving like a tool!), it is progressive. 6k spirited miles, and they are still 6mm Front and 7mm Rear. Quiet on motorway, great feedback through steering.

Great VFM, I would recommend them to anyone.

I put a set of these on my Mini early november and was really surprised how quiet they were and how similar they felt to my Continetal SportContacts in the dry.

Once the snow fell they gave me a huge amount of confidence. No issues at all so far, good grip on packed snow, deep fresh snow, and outstanding braking. I would definitely recommend these tyres, good price, high speed rating, all the snow grip you need and summer handling. No complaints.

Very good tyres, ride a bit harsh but otherwise great!

Early day's yet, but so far very pleased with them. Not had much rain yet so can't say too much about that, they look awesome on the car, the tread pattern is very cool. Will get back to you in a few month's with a better idea.

Excellent dry weather grip along with pretty good wet weather grip when new makes this my tyre of choice now.

They wear quite fast, lasting just 10000 miles on the front of my MINI Cooper but the tradeoff is a cheaper price than the other big name brands and excellent grip and feel on dry roads.

I did find that once down to 4-5mm tread left they started to tramline quite badly following camber changes in the road and pulling the steering on poor surfaces. Grip remained good throughout the wear range although as expected the wet weather performance does drop off as they wear.

The sidewall is nicely shaped to protect the rims from kerb rash and ride comfort is excellent when new although again they do become quite harsh when worn low.

Winter performance is also excellent for a normal road tyre, no match for full winter tyres but seem to cope well on slush and in light snow conditions.

I've just replaced all 4 for a fresh set of Toyos which speaks volumes of how good these tyres are in the mid price range.

Only driven for a couple of hundred miles so wear and progressiveness haven't been given a chance but compared to Dunlop SP Sport 3000's that I had before these seem better. The biggest thing is more grip and less aquaplaning for sure. Seem to cope well with lots of water.

The ride is slightly improved with a much more solid feel coming from the car, and there's no change in handling over the stiff walled run flats which is great. A very good value tyre.

Previously I had Dunlop SP Sport 01 (Runflats) and then Goodyear Excellence (Runflats) which I decided to replace with conventional (non-runflat) tyres when they were worn out. After reading the reviews I fitted these Uniroyal Rainsport 2 and I was initially very disappointed as some of the ??go cart?? precision and feel had gone! After increasing the tyre pressures to 36psi all round this improved but the steering still feels a bit soft and movement at the back can be felt on turn in.

On the plus side the grip is very good, almost as good as the Dunlops in the dry and excellent in the wet. Ride comfort and noise is also vastly improved over both brands of runflats. Typically I get 17 ?? 20K miles out of a set of tyres, rotating back to front after half worn, these seem to be no exception as after 10k miles the front tyres are about half worn.

If you change from runflats to improve the ride and noise levels be prepared to sacrifice feel!

the peak grip of these tires in dry conditions is average at best. i have a mini cooper so i tend to do hard cornering pretty often. i used to have some dunlops fitted and i must say, these yokohamas are nowhere near as sharp. those were like the car was on rails. these are like the car is on rails made of jello, or chewing gum. not very grippy. in the wet they are better than the dunlops though. the feedback is reasonably good. you can tell the limits of the tires grip and back off before you lose the car. they are progressive, none of this abrupt loss of traction. they are very comfortable and cushy on the highway though, something i couldn't say for the dunlops. however because of the lack of overall grip, i just don't get that rollercoaster feeling in the corners where it feels like my guts are shifting to one side of my body. i love that feeling and as a result i would not buy these tires again. the car understeers more in longer higher-speed bends, and when attempting to do quick transitions and short turns, the car has significantly more liftoff oversteer. the tires look good and also look very wide on my small car, but they just lack that crisp, gut-wrenching grip that i got on my old ones.

I thought they were very good straight out the box. They weren't slding all over the place as some new tyres do with the releasing agents when first run.

They get up to temp pretty quickly and cool down quite quick too. My only gripe with them is less than a day rounds Brands Hatch Indy circuit and I'm just off the wear bars on the fronts being run on 15" rims on a 2001 Mini Cooper Challenge car.