Pirelli CINTURATO P7 Reviews - Page 8

Have had these tyres on my Skoda Superb from new. At 34,500 miles in 18 months the fronts have finally reached the wear limiters. Perfectly matched to this car for grip and comfort. Today I have put the superseded blue on. If they get anywhere near these tyres for wear and grip I will be very pleased. Thoroughly recommend theses tyres for this type of car.

. Grip, handling, ride and noise are all very good. Although I've only had them on for just over 2 months, I've covered 5000 miles. So far, life seems good. Even allowing for wear, they are much better than the Continental Premium Contact 2 tyres they replaced. The Contis never had the grip, even when almost new that the Pirellis have. The Pirellis ride way smoother and are very noticeably quieter. They are predictable when pushed which the Contis never were. These Pirellis have always been light which is why they reduce unsprung weight which helps ride quality immensely.

I cannot comment on low temperature performance as yet but they are not as true tracking as the Continental tyres and even cruising, the Pirellis need a little more steering lock in bends. The plus side of that is that when the limit is approached, there is still plenty of scope for line and attitude adjustment. In any case, even if and when performance does tail off when these Pirellis are worn, it should still hopefully be quite acceptable.

I really like these tyres as they ride so smoothly and quietly yet they still manage to perform very well indeed. I find them quieter than the nose rating of 71dB suggests but that will vary car to car. Aquaplaning resistance has been exceptional but they are still new so again, I cannot comment what they are like when worn. How much performance tails off varies greatly over a tyre's life and I hope these Pirellis are well enough developed to avoid the shocking tail off which is common to so many budget tyres.

Very hard tyres that gripped phenominally on dry tarmac, but had a tendency to understear on wet tarmac. The hardness also meant they were a bit noisy, but that's a tradeoff: the better grip, the more noise.

Have normally had the P7 tyre on my Ford C-Max, it came with them and so have always opted for the same, swapping the front to rear and putting new ones on the front. Only this time the road noise is just awful! I have a diesel so not the quietest car but these tyres literally drown out the noise of the engine, the radio and the kids (perhaps not a bad thing!). I can feel the vibration through the pedals and steering wheel. We've had the alignment/tracking looked at, etc. but they are just not improving. I can't understand it as all the previous Pirelli P7s have been fine. Dud batch maybe? In any case I'll be moving away from them next tyre change (if I can bear it for that long) as they are obviously not consistent in their manufacturing of these tyres.

Drove for 55,0000 km on a VW Scirocco 2.0 Tsi in Dubai.
The wearing was surprisingly good, alternating front and rear every 15,000 km. The tyres could have lasted at least 10,000 km more, but I replaced them due to an internal failure in one of them due to poor road conditions.

The dry grip can be better. It isn't very progressive, loosing grip suddenly during fast cornering.
It is a comfortable tyre overall, with low noise levels and good road feedback.

Tend to be overpriced for what it offers.

These are the tires that came on my 2015 M235i. The rear tires wore out and had to be replaced at 18,000 miles. The front will need replacing by 25,000 miles. This seems much shorter than the tire rating, and I was not doing burnouts or drag racing. This car is my wife's daily driver. My main complaint about the tire is road noise, harsh ride, and poor feedback. These are the run flats, and they are very noisy and tend wail at highest speed and transmit every road imperfection into the car as noise. You might expect this is the price to pay to transmit road feel to the driver, but these tires do not do that well either. I've replaced the tears with P Zeros and the noise has improved. We will see about the ride quality, feed back and handling when we replace the front tires with P Zeros in the next 3000 miles.

Put these on my wife's Volvo V40 in replacement of some cheap and nasty Landsails which came with the car. The car feels much more secure on the P7s. Grip well in the wet as well as the dry. Not a high performance tyre, but neither is the car! Ideal for easy going driving on motorway or country lanes.

I've had these tyres on a Peugeot 406 Coupe 3.0i V6. Excelent tyres in dry, very good on a wet road. Going to buy P7 Cinturato again, 100%!

After the original new car tires of my MAZDA 3 Sport with extremely poor all roads surface traction. Replaced with this Pirelli Cinturato P7 AS(ALL SEASON) in June 2016. With over 44 years of driving experience, I can say it's worth the $$ so far. During that summer it had driven in hot summer sun and parked under well exposed sun. The reason for me to mention that is a good tire should not have rubber crack or rot under extreme conditions like my 2nd car Camry with the famous LOUSY Michellin Premier MXV4 with only 2-3 years of use which looks like a set of rolling time bomb on wheels.
Over all my Pirelli P7 tires performs as the way I expected a good tire should do. Characteristic road handling on dry road were great with good feedback for sharp cornering ability and straight forward tracking with confident. In wet driving also inspires good grips with secure feels. Tested in normal and strong down pour of that summer. Braking were also great with predicable distance as I expected from this car in top control manners. It actually rides quite good and quieter too. The OEM tires were very noisy and harsh.
I lives in the north eastern coast of North America, therefore snow comes for me to test in the winter of 2017. Normally I switch full winter snow tires. That option were not available due to all worn out from last winter usage. In the Feb. 2017 we had over 2 heavy snow storms and 1 huge blizzard in only 2 weeks. With over 60 cm+ of snow on the last one. Our city snowplows can't keep up with the heavy snowfall. I had to run some errands needs to travel on the messy highway and unfinished plowed city roads with only this Pirelli Cinturato P7 AS which wasn't designed to do on 6- 16 cm or more of messy highway and city street snow covered roads.The snow covered surfaces I encountered were not smooth, consisted with plenty of turns, slops, off highway ramps,stop and go, and some slight uphills as well.
What amazed me was this tire proves it can match my winter Blizzak on snow. The steering behavior felt safe with good confident. Traction to take off from full stop were amazing on snow too. Able to keep up with AWD and 4X4 vehicles. Braking on snow were reasonable too. Tire grips and stability on straight line and turns has good feelings of security (snow covered roads). I never expected this all season tire with treads that looks kind of smooth and doesn't look very aggressive can delivery this kind of overall performances.

I am very impressed with these tyres in the dry and wet , I've had these tyres for about 3 years now, before I was recommended to use infinity, so had them on my ford mondeo mk 3 1800 cc estate, these are noisy tyres and o.k.in the dry, but
once I was excellarating from a traffic island in the wet these tyres just wouldn't grip the road, so I got rid as I could, then got some pirelli P7, they are definitely a lot quieter, and I have had no problems in the wet or dry,

GOOD TIRE!

p7 cinturato is what I used most satisfactory tire!

Bought a new car which came with these tyres. In the dry they are great, i drive quite hard and don't experience any drift or feel as though the tyre is braking traction. The wet however, they are possibly one of the worst tyres ive had. Constantly braking traction, drift on the slightest bend and really does not fill me with confidence. Road noise is fine, a lot quieter than my usual tyre (Michelin PS3) which I think I will be going back to when these need changing. I would recommend them to a friend however who drives a little calmer than me and has less power in their car.
Tyre wear is much better than I'm used to, now have 6500 miles on this set, I'm usually changing the driven tyres at 8-10k with the PS3 tyres.