Given
10%
while driving a
BMW X5 3.0d Sport
(285/45 R19)
on
mostly motorways
for 200
average miles
No option but to give bottom scores on everything for this tyre. I'm a small motor trader so I tend to see a fair few different brands and models of tyres come in, these were freshly fitted on an E53 X5 I bought in from auction.
On the drive back, the tyres felt fine - not particularly noisy, not the *worst* tyres I've ever driven on, but push the car a little and you could feel them give out pretty quickly.
However, on the journey back, I started to notice a grumble from the front left - which I assumed was a wheel bearing - until I then heard the same noise coming from the opposite corner. Got the car back to work, popped it onto the ramp, and got the joy of seeing first hand an almost continuous bulge having developed on two of the tyres, with small bulges already apparent on the other two - for context, these tyres were correctly inflated, less than a year old on DOT codes and the manufacturer paint markings were still just about visible - avoid these tyres like the plague as from reading reviews on here, this isn't the first instance of these Powertrac tyres doing something like this.
