Best Tyres for the Volkswagen Mk7 Golf R

These are junk vibrations like crazy and they make your car handle like a boat don't buy these you get what you pay for waste of time and money.

Came on a second hand golf r I bought.
They work fine for a grandma's car. Then again I'd never fit cheap tyres to my grandma's car because I'm not that evil.
Like many others have said, they handle speed fine, but with directional inputs, everything becomes very vague. They take a while to warm up for any grip, but then once they do warm up, they'll overheat and become sloppy and even more vague within a few corners on a canyon run.
Buy them if you're being forced to, but swap them out as quick as you can.

Dry Grip is good. Wet Grip is acceptable but not really great. Highspeed cornering gives me less confident on how the tyre behave. It sometime gives tyre noise on corner as if its trying to grip the road.

Dry Grip is good. Wet Grip is acceptable but not really great. Highspeed cornering gives me less confident on how the tyre behave. It sometime gives tyre noise on corner as if its trying to grip the road.

Dry Grip is good. Wet Grip is acceptable but not really great. Highspeed cornering gives me less confident on how the tyre behave. It sometime gives tyre noise on corner as if its trying to grip the road.

Stock tires from a VW Golf R. On road they are ok, with fine traction for daily driving, with some driving mixed in. I do find they are rather noisy for a tire of this type. When I switch from my winter tires to these summer tires, I notice an increase in NVH which doesn't seem intuitive but every year I notice the difference.

On track is a different story, I do not recommend them. They're fine under braking and acceleration. You'll need more negative camber to get the tires to bite in corners and on exit. But regardless of suspension and alignment changes they get greasy very quickly and their ideal temperature range is very narrow. Feedback is poor and wear is high as a result. Based on their design and my experience the shoulders of the tire aren't robust enough. For a tire with such glowing reviews I am very disappointed in their performance for light track use (autocross and short tracks, 8 laps per day following a 2 lap warm up, 1 lap push, 1 lap cool down sequence. 3-4 times a year).

Great handling tyre Very good at water displacement with minimal pulling through puddles High road noise

Fantastic tyre in the dry, yet to find the limit In corners and gives strong confident braking. Okay in the summer wet >7c but understeers and slides in winter wet

Optimum dry grip is reached when the tyre reaches performance temperature. This can only be achieved driving on a track - public roads don't give enough opportunity to go fast safely around corners to generate heat. Once they're hot, they're sticky and provide loads of grip in the dry. Wet grip isn't too bad when they're hot, but they do cool off a bit quick. However, in the wet they are consistent with their grip, so once the temperature settles, you know what to expect. Feedback is average. You really ought to know your vehicle's handling characteristics, rather than rely on this tyre to tell you how it's coping on the road surface. Wear is consistent. They provide just as much grip towards the end of their life as at the start. Used as a daily driver with moderate to easy cornering and acceleration, you should expect about 40,000 km. If used on sporadically on the track, about 20,000 km to 30,000 km. Comfort isn't too bad. They are a tad noisy on the coarser bitumen surfaces on the country roads in south west Australia, but still adequate. I've compared these to the original fitted Bridgestones that were road tyres. The main difference between them is the wet handling is much better on the Bridgestones, but the Bridgestones lost a lot of grip suddenly two-thirds towards the end of their life. This made them initially, dangerously unpredictable. I actually removed them before they ran out of tread. Since them, I've had two sets of Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s.

Great tyre for the road. Hard driving leads the tyre to struggle after a short amount of time. In the wet this tyre is simply the best I have tried!