Across driver feedback, the Michelin Pilot Sport 3 (PS3) is widely seen as a strong ultra-high-performance all-rounder with standout wet grip, confident braking, and very good hydroplaning resistance, often making cars feel more stable and secure. Dry grip and handling are generally praised too, with many noting a comfortable, relatively quiet ride for the category. The most consistent downside is rapid treadwear for the price-especially on powerful or hard-driven FWD/AWD cars-along with frequent comments about soft sidewalls that can make steering feel a bit numb or delayed at the limit.
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I had these tyres for 2,5 years and 25000 km. The perfomance is really good both on wet and dry conditions. I mostly drove the tyres on motorways and a bit on city traffic conditions. The wear was high and in fact the sidewall of the front tyre was torn so I have to replace them now. I would only suggest this tyre only on driver who do a few km per year.
I had PS3 runflats fitted recently to replace the oem Bridgestone potenza runflats which came factory fitted to my BMW m135i. What a difference!!! I'd heard that the Bridgestones were awful, but I cannot believe how much better the car is in all respects with the ps3s. I'd assumed that the poor steering/ride quality/grip/handling/feedback were due to it being my first experience with runflats. It really does feel like a completely different car now and I'm just so sorry that I didn't replace them two years ago. I'm really struggling to understand how BMW, who I've always respected, could ever have fitted these awful BRIDGESTONE POTENZA runflats to even a lawnmower. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
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After visiting this site and looking at all the reviews at the time, I decided to play it safe and get Michelin PS3's fitted.
To start, the grip and feed back from the tyre to the wheel is superb, especially if you are like me and enjoy occasionally putting your foot down when you find an appealing road.
What surprised me was that this superb feedback remains throughout the life of the tyre.
Another surprise to me was the life of the tyre, given that I have just changed them with 3mm of tyre left, after 26,000 miles, 15,000 miles on the Motorway and the rest on a combination of road surfaces.
Now the downsides...
The tyre noise to start with was fine, but increased with tyre wear, however I must say that I hadn't noticed this until I changed my tyres recently.
What I did notice though was that as my tyre wear increased, the tyre grip in the wet fell off significantly, so I am glad that the feedback was superb because under hard braking it started to lose grip.
I hope this helps for anyone who has a similar powered AWD car.
D.McAlister
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The PS3's were factory fitted from new. After 12,000 miles the fronts still have over 5mm of tread left and the rears over 6. This from a combination of local short and long European journeys and everything else in between.
We switched to PS3 after Pirelli Rosso which we found to wear quickly and easily damaged. Often lasted under 5000 miles. The SP3 set felt better driving in all conditions except wet. They lasted 27000 miles wearing evenly. Very pleased. Now have SP4 set. These feel better than the SP3 in all conditions.
Very good grip in dry and wet conditions. Driving in curves, I found them a bit softer compared to Good Year Assymetric 2 F1. In terms of noisy levels, I would say that were low. The front tyres lasted about 7,000 miles and therefore I had to bring the back tyres in front. They lasted a bit more compared to Assym 2 F1. On the road, I enjoyed more the Assymetric 2 F1 compared to PS3. However, If you are looking for a comfortable sport tyre, then the Pilot Sport 3 should be your choice. My next choice was Michelin Primacy 3.
Very good dry and wet grip, one of the best, but, they have lasted just 12000 miles. I don't drive aggressively or at high speed, mainly 40-50 mph on A roads. I expected around 15000 miles at least owning to the fact they are quite a soft compound. They are definitely a summer tyre as below 5 degrees they were very noisy and lacked grip. Didn't like them at all in the winter mornings. When they get to 3mm they are also quite noisy. In summary, they are a good tyre but the terrible wear rate and the cost would put me off having them again. I have used Continental CSC 3 and Goodyear Eagle F1 as well and while both may not grip as well (only by the narrowest of margins) they are better in colder conditions and wear better.
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245/45 R19
20,000 miles
Mostly Motorways
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Factory tyres on S85D and my first impression was very good. The tyres would control the quite enormous torque of the car really well, both on dry and wet. Never managed to really spin them, even though I tried some stuff I didn't believe were possible (full throttle in the middle of a highway exit from 20 to 50mph). Braking distance, comfort noise and rolling resistance are all scoring high. My issue is the wear. After 20k miles, all tyres are about to meet their creator. Great performance for the first 5-8k miles, but after that, their performance was constantly dropping. Maybe it is just the car and its camber setting that is meant to destroy tyres, but I was not really pushing the car (well 95% of the times). Next tyre is ASY3.
Haftung bei Nässe und Trockenheit sind atemberaubend und die Reifen sind dazu hinreichend komfortabel. Kein Problem mit Geräuschentwicklung, zumal alle Reifen auf den rauen Nebenstraßen in ländlichen Gegenden, wo wir sie fahren, ein paar Geräusche machen. Ich meine damit einfach, dass ich mir viel mehr Gedanken und Grip und Stabilität mache, und diese Reifen sind in diesen Bereichen hervorragend, besonders beim schnellen Fahren auf engen, kurvenreichen Straßen und plötzlichen Schräghängen mit Gefälle und Steigungen. Der Verschleiß ist nicht das, was man vernünftigerweise von einem Premiumreifen erwarten könnte, selbst wenn man die rauen Oberflächen bei unseren meisten Fahrten in Betracht zieht. Die Vorderreifen hielten 21.000 Kilometer, bevor wir sie ersetzen mussten, weil sie schon ziemlich nachließen. Über die lange Distanz/auf Autobahnen waren sie in Ordnung, nicht aufdringlich geräuschvoll.
Habe meine Continental Sport Contact 2 Reifen gegen diese getauscht. Handling und Grip sind auf nasser wie trockener Fahrbahn exzellent. Sehr gut für Fahrsport. Ich hoffe, dass der Abrieb gering ist.
Die besten Reifen, die ich je hatte... extrem griffig bei Nässe und Trockenheit. Die Reifen hielten viel länger als gedacht. Sehr empfehlenswert, ich habe gerade ein neues Paar bestellt. Bin vollkommen von der Performance dieses Reifens auf nasser Strecke überzeugt.
