Barum Brillantis

Factory fitted on my grandfather's 2007 Dacia Logan. Absolute bargain basement tyres, much like the car itself, though clearly rather hard-wearing. The lack of steering feedback and overall grip makes my BMW's Bridgestone Potenza S001 feel like race slicks, but I did find them to be alright in the wet and not as loud as I assumed they would be.

My construction business bought a 2nd hand Nissan NP200 open back van a few years back. It came with Nissan SOUTH AFRICA factory fitted Barum Brilliantis with aprox 30K kilometers on. Not long after we popped a rear tire on a trip out of town under load, heat, age, etc. I read on the tire wall that it is not a commercially graded van tire, rather an 'extra load tire'. I assume this is a glorified passenger tire with some improvements none which qualifies it as a 'LT' (light truck) tire. I have now purchased a new NP 200, again fitted with the above mentioned tire and after only 2k kilometers it took a thorn in the side wall tire and it is beyond fixing. I searched online and phoned Tiger Wheel Malibongwe drive asking for a Hankook Vantra LT same as I bought a few years back for our other vans, but they cannot source them. Blairgowrie Lombard tires recommend another sub grad glorified passenger tire; the Goodyear Dura Grip again branded as an extra load tire, but not an LT tire. I am amazed that I cannot source LT tires in South Africa, looks like I am forced to replace with Barum Brilliantis as the end users do not want to pay or understand the need for a LT tire on their LT trucks/vans (assuming tire manufacturers don't keep stock due to no/low demand)

I live in Egypt and the roads honestly are worse than you can imagine. I had the tire for 8 years and by God's will, I have never faced a serious accident. I recommend these tires if you are on a budget and want value for a good price. The tires are a bit noisy especially their last couple of years. Everything else is average.

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These were on my oldtimer when I bought it. Very poor handling, noisy tires. The grip on dry road is below average, on wet road the grip is horrible. They seem to be made out of some bad kind of rubber. I strongly recommend not buying these!

It's good in most roads kinds but they have a little sound in the high speed but they are good at driving

Average grip, wear and noise. Less grip then Avon ZT5 but less noisy too. Good cheap tyre.

On dry tarmac it is average tyre but badly loosing grip on wet surface. It is activating abs on some normal driving situations and it was driving me crazy. Looks like this tyre have to much plastic instead of rubber in it. Will never buy it again.

the tyers were on the car 3 years ago and i love em 4 of em and they are not noisy on the gravel rough roads.but i would like to try bravarus instead...martin.

I drive cars for about 10 years, and honestly these tyres are the worst I've ever come across.

Imagine a tyre that loses grip and drifts away when braking (slightly hard braking) at speeds ranging from 80 mph to 10 mph at any surface. The tyres really are uncomfortable to a level that I feel every detail on the road. Yes I don't have ABS, but I've experienced far more better tyres also without having ABS.

One one good thing due to it's level of discomfort, is that it hardly wears.

bad tyres not going to buy it again

barum brillantis, bought them in 12.2006 used them 80000km on all seasons and all kinds of terrain, used about 90%.Very good grip on dry but a little bad grip on wet.overall a good tyre,definitely i would buy another set.

These Barum Brillantis tyres were fitted to my wife's Fiat Panda when the original Continentals wore out.

I found the dry and wet handling to be satisfactory but when the car was driven hard the sidewalls didn't seem to give the support that was required - perhaps this was down to the tyre having a high (80%) profile. Greater levels of understeer were experienced than compared to the Continentals - perhaps lower profile versions of this tyre perform better!

This particular Brillantis tyre has since been superseded by the “Barum Brillantis 2” which I imagine performs better.

Each recommendation!!!

Had these put on to my sisters Peugeot and straight away they felt quite good and gripped well. They are a radial tyre and are much better then the previous unheard of budget tyres which only lasted 10K. So far so good.