Driver feedback on the Accelera PHI is highly polarised, but overall trends lean cautious-to-negative despite the low purchase price. Many owners find it acceptable or even good in the dry and like the value, comfort and low noise for a budget tyre, with some reporting decent mileage. However, a large share of reviews describe very poor wet grip and wet braking (often called unpredictable or dangerous), along with frequent complaints about vague steering feel and occasional balance/out-of-round vibration issues.
What owners mention most counted across 158 reviews
wear ok but no grip at all in the wet , i would not fancy an emergency braking situation with them, they have loads of thread left but they scare the life out of me in the wet i will be getting rid ASAP
truely awful tyres
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Renault
225/40 R18
3,000 miles
A Combination of Roads
Spirited
I had these tyres new on my megane 225, after 3thousand miles the fronts need changing already, granted my driving style is spirited, but still, dry grip is ok but not what you want, and in the wet these tyres are dangerous, will not be buying again, just bought some falken 452s.
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I read some mixed reports about these tyres which almost put me off my purchase. However, I have found them to be excellent, having had all four tyres replaced with them on my Alfa 159. Grip ride and feel of the car is better than ever so I would certainly recommend them to anyone and at about 60% of the price of the leading brands, they are the ideal choice.
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Has these on my Audi A4 and now driven 14 months 25,000miles on the front and only now going to change them. Not bad, grip not the best but certainly seem value for money
GREAT TYRES FOR THE MONEY, USE THEM ON MY ALFA 159Ti - PRICE HAS GONE UP A BIT RECENTLY, USED TO BE ABLE TO GET THEM FOR £95 FITTED - NOW ABOUT £115 EACH FITTTED BUT STILL PROBABLY 2.5 TIMES CHEAPER THAN THE PIRELLIS OR CONTIS.
These are BUDGET tyres. I am an experienced car mechanic and have driven literally thousands of cars with so called premium tyres and budget tyres alike. I have these on my diesel Octavia and to be very honest would struggle to tell the difference between these and the continentals they replaced. We all know they look very similar, some say replica... Look closer and you'll see slight differenes, mainly the fact that the rubber is obviously not as soft. Is this a bad thing? Depends if you like paying 3 times more for something that lasts half as long. If you drive very enthusiasticly then ok you might do better with eagle f1's or proxies but lets face it you are reading this review because you are skint or a skin flint. Either way you get what you pay for, but for the outlay the are very good BUDGET tyres.
Incidently, I had runway enduro once before that came as a package with my wheels and the difference between these accelera there and runway was massive.
When we had heavy snow I ended up walking 5 miles to work..yay..wet feet!
Next time we had snow I had these tyres, dropped the pressures a bit and hey presto...i was the only one at work..doh.
As a round up... Premium tyres are all well and good if you have got money to burn if not then give these a go. And if you don't like them then smoke them and have some fun, then call your Bank manager.!
Fitted 2 to my rx8 - better feal and grip than the recommended bridgestones at several times the price.So impressed i deliberately search for more and now have complete set.Great tyre - try them instead of listening to the gripes on websites.
Absolutely horrible in the rain. Have had these tyres for 20,000 miles, so have done very well for wear. But the aquaplaning in the rain, just stick to the middle lane on the motorway.
These tyres are dangerous i replaced them after a month of buying my car. Dry grip is poor and wet grip forget it these tyres don't have grip in the wet. They were reviewed on a BBC1 programme last year and i learned that these are cheap copies of the contisport contact 3 tyres. They compared both of these tyres together and these were so poor the presenter said their should be a law passed so these type of cheap tyres can't ever be sold over here in the uk. They are really that bad.
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Mercedes Benz
225/40 R18
7,600 miles
A Combination of Roads
Average
I have a 225/40/18 on front and 255/35/18 on a back,and I tell you one thing?If your driving style is normal and you don't use them in winter time,you'll be fine.I have 400bhp in my Merc and I don't have a problem with those tyres so far! Eric
