245/65 R20 Tyres

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Tyre Reviewed Dry Grip Wet Grip Feedback Handling Wear Comfort
Bridgestone Potenza RE050A Run Flat (143) 72% 54% 55% 48% 55% 32%

245/65 20 Tyre Review Highlights

Bridgestone Potenza RE050A Run Flat rated 42% while driving a Mercedes Benz E Class
Driving on a combination of roads for 6000 easy going miles
Gotta say, I’ve had some serious bad luck with my Merc E400 and its Bridgestone 245/35R20 run-flat boots.

It had new wheels and tyres when I bought it with 14k miles on it last year. (Bought from a friend so I saw them installed by Wembley Tyres).

Since then, I’ve done ~10k and have got through three tyres, two of which blew on the inside rims, and one cracked wheel. I can’t believe I’ve gone through the better part of £2k in less than 18 months.

I’m based in London where you can seldom reach 30mph but where speed calming and potholes are ubiquitous. That said, I drive carefully, not aggressively, usually on the car’s eco setting for fuel economy.

The car itself is wonderful, but I’m beginning to worry about what it rolls on.

I know run-flats have poor reputations for durability and ride comfort, but I had them on my previous car for the seventeen years / 100k miles I owned it and hardly got through any more (Pirelli Zero 205/55) boots in all that time.

Bridgestone are a premium brand but are they really this fragile?

Seriously considering another brand or even saving a packet on non-runflats and slime….
tyre reviewed on 2023-11-20 05:49:03
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