The Dunlop SP Sport 01 receives its clearest owner praise for dry grip, handling and tread life, with later-life accounts including substantial mileage. Wear is not universally liked, but favourable mentions outnumber complaints by more than two to one. Road noise is the main recurring drawback, criticised in nearly three in ten reviews, and some end-of-life accounts describe it becoming louder. Wet grip is evenly divided between positive and negative mentions, so it is less dependable as a point of recommendation than dry performance. Ride comfort is also split, while steering feedback leans positive without the same agreement as dry handling.
What owners mention most counted across 95 reviews
Covered 40,000 now on full second set of tyres and replacing rear tyres for third time. Car is an asutomatic and slips in the wet which I thnk accounts for the wear on the rear tyres.
Mine have done 50,000 miles on a 3.0L R Subaru Outback which has been pushed at times.
With these tyres I have followed a Toyota Land Cruiser up a steep muddy back which the Toyota struggled up with BFG ATs!
The alignment was doe when fitted and the have worn very evenly.
A good tyre especially at the mileage.
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great tyre, when i travel to work a distance of 11 miles, i do it in near peace very little road noise good grip on rounderbout on greasy road just an overall great tyres
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Factory fitted tyres have performed well in normal summer conditions but were not good in snow/ice etc.They are summer tyres and I would strongly suggest a winter tyre as soon as the weather closes in. They do what they should do in the conditions they are made for.I have driven the car hard at times with no sign of reaching the tyres limits. Mileage so far 24k and still have life left.....expect 30k on the front and a more from the back.
I have done 32000km on these tyres. They are very noisy now. The ride quality is very poor, can feel all bumps on the road. Only dry and wet grip is good. I would not suggest these tyres at all.
I have been through two sets of these. The first time they lasted 18,000 miles of urban driving and the next time 12,000 with extra urban driving. I found them to be a comfortable tyre that lower road noise. They were not too bad in the dry but useless in the wet. Suseptible to aqua planing easily. I agree with other comments here that the faster you go the less grip they offer. They were fine on two cars under 75 bhp but would not use otherwise. Discovered the Uniroyal Rainsport2 there after which surprise surprise had even lower road noise, exceptional road grip and reduced aqua planing. This is an over priced luxury attempt for a summer tyre. The run flat version would be the best if you want a run flat tyre but you can do better for under the price these are sold at.
Whilst not near the latest top "sports" car tyres the feedback and progression make these a DRIVERS tyre second to none.
In other words if you have moved beyond the deep breath and white knuckle brigade these could be for you.
had Sp9000's and Sp01's on, the 01's were the best of a bad bunch, my car was heavy and 240BHP was too much for them, the grip was predictable- drive=grip drive. faster=grip on edge. drive fast=no grip just loss of traction. didnt suit my car.
I was diappointed at the wear(28000 and probably 2000 miles left before chnage),as I have had 32K miles from Continental tyres on a Range Rover, a much heavier car,Judging by feedback on these, they are probably a good buy currently quoted ?604 for four tyres fitted and balanced.
These lasted 31,371 and were down to 3mm across the whole tyre, could have probably got another 2-3k out of them. Well priced tyres that perform well too although not as good as some tyres on here id give them 7/10.
