Bridgestone Potenza Adrenalin RE003

Wear out far too quickly – I've always loved these tyres, they do everything right, either wet or dry they're great but the last set that I put on my 2009 Ford Falcon have worn out so quickly I can no longer recommend them. I drive slowly , never tow and always have the correct pressure but the rear tyres are 70% worn after only 16 thousand kms. It's not as if they've worn… Read more

unevenly, in fact they've worn so evenly you could put a straight edge on it. With a bit of luck I hope to get another 4k out of them which will be a grand total 20k which just isn't acceptable. The Michelin Primacy 4's that were on it prior lasted 35k and I only changed them because they were going a bit hard and getting a little noisy but were stlll nowhere near the wear indicators.. Bridgestone had no answers and of course didn't care either, they probably think they're going to sell me another set of tyres. They'd be wrong.

A very below average tyre from Bridgestone – Had a pair of these Bridgestone Potenza Adrenalins fitted to the front wheels of my Toyota Aurion in early December 2020 including a full front & rear wheel alignment. After just under 2 years & 27,000km both are well on the way out with poor tyre wear on a FWD vehicle. A very below average tyre from Bridgestone. Its back to the Michelins or Pirelli's for me in the future. Show details

225/45R 18 95W XL BS RE003 Always have bought these for my Mazda 6. 34000 kilometres this set – Tyres perform pretty good in both wet and dry. You get fair bit of road noise. Durability my opinion is poor. Really think 34k is pretty low for easy driving Worse since they left Australia. I wouldn’t recommend buying these. I’m a slow learner lol Show details

These are bad, won’t buy them again – These tyres were great, great grip, excellent handling but only a 1000 k’s, tyres developed run out and high shoulders as if they were over inflated but tyres were only inflated as directed by every tyre shop. Tyres before they went airy were great but once they started doing their own thing, run out and high shoulders, my car started tracking… Read more

badly, developed vibration in steering which resulted in me taking them back to Bridgestone Select Caloundra. They tried faulting my rims but couldn’t find anything wrong with them. They’ve replaced them with a new set of tyres because all 4 needed replacement after 1600 k’s. The new set straight off the bat before I even put them on my car had high shoulders, they were visible and you could feel the dip in the middle, so straight up they were tracking badly following every rut in the road making my driving experience horrible, not very enjoyable when you are constantly fighting the steering just trying to go in a straight line. Just about everything is new in my steering, struts, ball joints, superpro bushings ect ect on my BF Falcon wagon. Bridgestone were still trying to find fault with my wheels but couldn’t find anything wrong with them and were making excuses as to why they were high in the shoulders. They want to send my rims and tyres away for testing but I couldn’t be bothered being mucked around, I just want to be able to drive my car without issue, so will be buying some cheap tyres as I always used to and tell Bridgestone to stick their Bridgestone Potenza’s where the sun don’t shine.

These tyres are terrible – I bought a set of 4 245/35/r19’s on the 27/5/21, I’ve only driven 1600 k’s on them and they have started distorting. They were great when I first got them and was the first time I forked out and bought decent tyres, should have stuck with cheap ones. My car started tracking badly and noticed that the centre of the tyres started sagging as if they… Read more

had been over inflated, I’ve always put 38 to 40 psi in them as recommended to me by nearly every tyre shop. All four tyres sagged in the guts and tracking bad on the road and then they have started to go out of round, so not only do they track badly, they now shake at highway speeds. I took them back to Bridgestone Select in Caloundra where I purchased them, they saw that they weren’t right, took videos and photos of the defects in the tyres and contacted their head office, head office said that they want them sent to Brisbane to check the tyres, I said alright but they them changed their mind and wanted them sent on the rims, I said no way, every time someone goes near my chrome 19’s they get marked and scratched. They could see in the videos that my rims were good and their tyres were crap, so now I have to wait for someone from Bridgestone to come to my house to check the tyres, god knows how long that will take, luckily I have a spare set of wheels to put on my car. Not happy at all, the defects are obvious and I don’t understand why I have to be mucking around and having to wait, the product is faulty, so either give me new tyres or refund me and I’ll go somewhere else and buy some tyres. Their under warranty and should be sorted out. It’s total nonsense, being on a pension and a full time career for my Mum, don’t have time to muck around. I liked the tyres until they started doing their own thing. Very annoyed and disheartened.

Wet grip is bad – I bought these tyres late 2020 for a 2015 Peugeot 308 1.2 manual running 16in wheels. They don't appear to be noisy. There have been no balance issues. I have driven on them about 600km on the freeway, about 200km rural B roads and about 1200km urban driving. I have not pushed these tyres very hard in the dry, except some large roundabouts taken… Read more

with some speed, where the grip was was not bad, but the speed was not particularly high, certainly nowhere near the car or tyres' limits. The tyres were bought from Bob Jane T-marts for about $100 each, which was cheap for a performance tyre at the time. What is very bad with these tyres is wet-weather grip. The speed with which these tyres (well, one tyre) loses all traction from a standing start in the wet is surprising for a so-called performance tyre. It has done this half a dozen times. With minimal throttle, letting out the clutch when taking off ofrom a T-junction, the inside wheel immediately begins to spin and continues to around the corner and only grips again when the clutch is disengaged. I have also experimented a little with taking sharp corners in the wet with a little more speed than usual, to find that the car understeers more quickly than expected. I do not trust these tyres. Despite having travelled less than 2000km, I will dispose of them when my daughter gets her licence and will be driving the car. Her life is worth more to me than losing money on a set of dangerous tyres. I keep putting it down to oil on the road, maybe the pressures are not right (have checked, even slightly reducing or increasing a few psi from placard) but in summary, I simply do not trust these tyres. Bridgestone, you have made some very, very good performance tyres - and I think I've driven on RE003s before, and thought that they were very good -- but what have you done with the RE003 since to make them so bad in the wet?

Very Disappointed – I bought these on 4-for-3 promotion at Bob Jane a couple of months ago to replace the worn out Continental Premium Contact tyres that came on my Renault Clio. My purchase was very much based on the overwhelming positive reviews on this website. So why the 2-star rating? For a start they're unacceptably NOISY. The inside of my Clio was a cocoon… Read more

of silence with the Conti's, but the Bridgestones make it more like riding in a diesel bus. I have to turn the stereo up a couple more notches just to hear it above the rumble. I've tried different pressures between 30-40 psi and it makes no difference.

The steering is also HEAVIER than it was before, which is counter to my previous experience with new tyres. I've always found new, freshly aligned and balanced tyres to give feathery light steering compared to the old ones.

But the clincher in giving 2-stars is that they don't even grip very well. My car is a 0.9L turbo and packs only slightly more power than a push bike. Nevertheless, with these tyres I can spin the wheels on take off in wet weather. I was NEVER able to do on the Conti's.

I see there's no kind of satisfaction warranty with these tyres, despite all their grand performance claims. So it looks like I'll be stuck with them until I have the budget to get rid of them. I've only done 700 km on them so far, but there's no way they'll be staying on till they're worn out.

Tyres have saved me in wet and dry weather – These tyres give you the confidence you are going to have the extra grip, in situations your's and your car's abilities are pushed to the limit. For example, where a car has pulled out or person at the last minute, and you need to stop or swerve suddenly in the wet or dry. As well as being able to accelerate hard to get into busy traffic… Read more

without wheel spin in dry or wet.

There has been numerous times in my 14yrs of owning my Mazda 2006 SP23 these tyres along with the car's electronic stability control have saved me from a potential accident.

Once Mazda servicing on their recommendation changed my tyres to a different brand, and they were noisy, with a lot less grip. After one 800km trip I told them to take them off and replace with these Potenzas (same as what was on from factory).

Other than the 800km above, my 190000 km have been using these Potenzas, and for a number of years I was driving 40000km per year, including a number of trips along the Great Ocean Road per year (long way home from seeing clients). Now I drive about 3000km per year in this car (son doesn't fit in back anymore).

My model of Mazda 3 is known to be noisy, these tyres make it a lot quieter. I get about 40000 km out of my tyres. They do get noisier as they wear.

I notice these tyres have a lot more grip than what is put on a lot of cars. For example, our 2014 Camry Hybrid I have to be careful in driving in the wet and dry, as they just do not have the grip these do.

I have given 4 stars, as the last vehicle I used to purchase performance tyres for, was a Holden VL Calais with Yokohama tyres got another 20000km (60000km).