Most owners rate the Pirelli Cinturato All Season SF3 highly, with the bulk of feedback praising its dependable wet and dry grip (mentioned by over half of reviewers) and an easy, confidence-inspiring feel for year-round use. Around a third of owners also highlight strong snow traction for an all-season tyre, alongside generally low road noise and good ride comfort. A small minority report vibration/balancing issues, while roughly one in six mention steering feel is a bit soft or less direct than sportier or summer-focused alternatives; aquaplaning feedback is more mixed.
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I am back with a winter review,
The tire behaves just fine until around -5 degrees on dry/wet/ asphalt and are good on mud or a little fresh snow.
On old frozen snow however they will get you moving, but you don't feel that the tire grips in any way, these tires will allow you to move slowly in a mostly straight direction. Basically you give a little gas and hope that you move somewhere, every second on snow will sound nerve-wracking - still the traction control will rarely intervene. If there is ice the car will just slide randomly when braking but the tires allow you to always stop. If you keep the speed steady and slow it maintains direction without issues even in tight corners, when you lose control the car just slides and the only thing you can do is to stop it.
My car is RWD and I wouldn't really dare to go up a large hill with snow/ice with these tires unless absolutely necessary. The car slides/spins in place whenever one has to go up on an icy/snowy ramp from a full stop. They will get you up the hill if you insist, but if you don't have a lot of space around you will slide left-right and hit the edge of the road.
At around -10 degrees or lower it starts to feel too hard and slides as soon as you hit some gravel with ice/snow on a half cleaned road, brake a little harder and you slide like a sleigh. I don't know if I would want to test these without snow chains/socks at -20 degrees or lower and fully snow covered roads because the lower the temperature the lower the feel of grip in the steering wheel.
TLDR: I won't say it's a bad tire because it will allow you to move and stop just fine if you have space, otherwise the car felt like a sleigh going sideways more than I would have liked. I managed to get up and down on 20-30% ramps with snow, however in very tight spaces I was very lucky that I didn't hit the car because the car slid sideways a lot when braking. You have to also always pay attention when joining a main road from a snowy road, the rear tires will slide sideways.
Bought them as replacement for old Michelin Alpin 5s, only to use them in winter, I live in mild climate, mostly city and some backroad and highway driving. I usually push the car way above legal limits on dry, have GY Asymmetric 6 for summer, those have no limit on average 170hp family sedan. Pirellis compare really good on dry, its just the tire to buy when you want to keep some of the summer tire feeling during winter, not really sporty, but comfortable and really showcase where the limit is on turns when around 0 celsius temperatures. In wet and rain they are little bit better than winter tire, but not as good as summer tire. Havent had any snow this year yet, but last weekend during ice storm, on clean ice they were surprisingly good.
On the downside, when temps drop below -5 C, they lose some dry grip, compound becomes too hard.
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Before these tyres I drove Kumho Solus all season tyres and was disappointed with them. They lasted 40 000 km, but grip was average on dry, bad on wet and when I tried them in snow I only managed to drive half way up a snowy road close to my house where I live.
After a lot of thinking and calculating once again I decided to buy all season tyres since buying two sets of premium winter and summer tyres is nowadays rather expensive (especially if you drive 35 000 km per year as I do). But this time I watched probably every possible review of every tyre ever made.
And that's how I ended up buying these Pirelli tyres. And they are amazing. I've driven them for about 2000 km. On dry roads almost every tyre will be ok, the question was how are they going to behave on wet roads and in the snow? I really pushed them to the limit in these conditions and they performed great. Grip in wet is amazing, tyres are giving me a lot of confidence. This year I went to the exact snowy hill to compare them with before mentioned Kumho tyres and they performed great, climbing up a snowy and muddy road without a problem.
They will probably not last as long as Kumho but we'll see.
All in all, I would definitely recommend these tyres.
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Pretty impressed with these, but they do have some limitations. I replaced some Bridgestone full winter tyres with these and they don't have the snow grip of that full winter, which probably stands to reason, but it's not a huge distance off it. What they do well is limit the float that some winter tyres come with when the car moves around on the tread block, it's still there, but tolerable. Some winter tyres really are unnerving for that and I'm sure going to an all season has mitigated an amount of this.
As I'm using these effectively like a set of winter tyres, I'm not wholly bothered by dry grip in the higher temps, these aren't a patch on my Goodyear ays 6's, but they're ok for the dryer winter days that they will encounter. Comfort wise, they are pretty good. Road noise on the civic isn't that well suppressed and these tyres are definitely quiet compared to any thing else I've had on, and I've had a fair amount of brands on this car. One thing they do though is best described as sing to you when you really start to lean on them, not annoying, but noticeable.
I can't comment on wear as yet due to the lack of mileage. Overall, as a replacement for a premium winter tyres, I'm very happy. They get you going in the snow, stop you pretty well and they do inspire some confidence when you want to press on.
Genuinely seriously impressive tyre. I decided to use these as a winter tyre as I live in Scotland.
In dry conditions manages to have acceptable levels of grip in a straight line, slight wheel spin sometimes but cannot complain since the M2 is RWD 365bhp.
Very strong tyre in the dry and super progressive, really lets you know when it does begin to slip when doing spirited driving. A big strong point as these tyres still allow the vehicle to be driven in a sporting manner.
In the wet they are okay for wet straight line grip, it spins up pretty easy in 1st and 2nd gear. Regardless still catches grip eventually, the handling in the wet is also okay, nothing special and is nicely progressive when the car does begin to slip away while cornering.
They are also amazing at aquaplane resistance, never met a puddle that caused the car to lose control, and I’ve been through a good few storms on the motorway with standing water, been through large street puddles/low floods. Can really have confidence driving through very poor storm like rainy conditions
In the snow these tyres are brilliant, couldn’t complain at all. Was able to drive this powerful rear wheel drive without any problems in multiple inches of snow. I could rely on cornering grip (great and predictable snow drifts) it stopped well in the snow too and could go up and down snowy hills without a sweat. Genuinely very impressed and gives me great confidence for poor weather conditions.
In icy/frosty conditions, they seem to be great, pretty much felt the similar to the wet weather grip levels. Tyres seem pretty good in minus temperatures, won’t blow your socks off but will absolutely keep you safe.
All in all, after being able to test the tyres over a period of 3000 miles through various winter and mild conditions, I will only buy these going forward even with the price premium.
I feel like it allows my performance car to still be a performance car in the colder months. It also gives me peace of mind driving through the most adverse of conditions.
Very noisy on rough surfaces, it seems to suffer from potholes because it drags a lot more noise, excellent support on wet surfaces, in my opinion it suffers a bit from aquaplaning. Average braking on wet surfaces.
On dry surfaces I noticed that it delays the steering response, it seems to float and then leans on the curve, definitely an excellent grip but you have to understand this behavior.
I came from the icep evo 3 and the steering response seemed more direct and sporty as the sensation of aquaplaning was better but on wet surfaces they were k.o. Compared to the SF3. I have to try it on snow, I hope I won't be disappointed by the grip on snow
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In tests so far the SF3 has been excellent in aquaplaning, but coming from a summer tyre braking will feel a little different. You should be impressed with the snow performance.
Amazing tires. Absolute champions in the wet, great handling in the dry, sporty feel. Matched up with an FWD SUV vehicle you will not have any problems. One thing of note, they are less sporty in the dry than the original summer tires.
Pirelli cinturato all seasons SF3 tires replace Continental ecocontact 6. I am satisfied. Better handling on dry and wet. Less rolling, reinforced tire. On the other hand, more rolling noise.
Had these to prepare for UK winter conditions for safety over my summer tyres (Goodyear Eagle F1 5), and already can feel improved comfort and ride. It's hard to describe really but it just feels better to drive.
Wet is fantastic and I feel much more confident on such surfaces at higher speeds. Dry is the same, and I mostly drive on both country and town roads. Have experienced motorway with these too and the same feeling of confidence and comfort. So I couldn't be happier with the tyres.
Yet to experience the tyres on ice or snow but I've full faith in them.
Initial impressions: The tire is silent compared to 18 inch Michelin Pilot Sport 5's and takes bumps well for an XL tire.
Turning feels really nice at 15 degrees celsius in the dry, I am very happy with Pirelli so far, I'd even say that now my front wheels turn too quickly, I have to get used to smaller tires. Some of the tires were lightly bulged out of the factory, but still in spec for a small car. (Balanced with Hunter Road Force Elite)
Best Tyre i ever Had! Way better than Conti asc2 and Much betetr than michelin cc2. Tread perfect now. Should easy last longer than 45.000km. Pirelli done the best Tyre on this planet in all season market!
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