Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

Buy, install, enjoy. Repeat – These tyres are one of the best high performance tyres out there. Awesome dry and wet grip with stiff sidewalls to eliminate the mushy front-end confidence-sapping feeling. Excellent feel and acceptable ride comfort with minimal tram-lining and aquaplaning. The minor complaints would be a very short life-span if pushed near their limits, rubber… Read more

hardens significantly when tread is running low (leading to a big drop of grip levels) and pricing (if your tyre size is not common). Tyres required replacing at 30,000 km on my BMW M3 and 12,000 km on my Renault RS265 (no trackdays included). Both vehicles stock standard.

But I can't have my cake and eat it all, so I have replaced my vehicles with these tyres countless times now.

Great Tyre - awesome grip - a little pricey – I've used the Michelin PS2 twice; first on my Porsche Cayman S.. and now on my 1990 964 911. This is one of the few brands that made the staggered sizes that I needed. They are quiet, comfortable, very grippy and they don't tramline at all. I've only done about 1000kms... so cannot vouch for longevity.. but I would guess they would not last as long as something a bit more sedate.  Show details

Excellent wet and dry grip and good feedback – I recently replaced the Continental Sport Contact 3 on my 2012 Porsche Cayman with the Michelin Pilot Sport PS2. What a difference this has made. This is an outstanding tire and further improved the handling on what is already one the best handling cars on the road. Sticky in the dry, surefooted in the wet and quieter compared with the… Read more

Continental. The highlight is the feedback, revealing every change in the road surface with very slight movements of the steering wheel. The price was also a bonus at $300 each for fronts and $400 each for the rears being two thirds that of the Continentals. At 8000km a have lost just over 1mm of tread so the tread wear should be reasonable. I would definitely recommend this tire based on its performance so far.

PS. I have now traveled 17000km and the rear tyres are down 2mm from the original 8mm of tread and the front tyres are down 1.5mm. I have recently fitted a set of the Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 tyres to another vehicle. This tyre is proving to have better performance as far as grip and ride compared to the PS2 but only time will tell how well they will wear.

Giibo – Tyres been on my FG XR6 for 15,000km run 40psi front and 38psi rear they work very well in the dry and wet. My driving is a mixture of metro and country roads. Wear rate todate is in line with previous tyres though these are still quiet compared to the Dunlops. Good to see that these are made in France as I refuse to purchase from China or Asia… Read more

(Bad experience with well known brand with having 7 tyres fitted over a two week period all being out of round)

I will try to update this at 30,000k

Tyres are now at 50,000k just starting to get noisy on rough surfaces still work well in the wet. I should achieve 60-65,000k Quieter excellent in both wet and dry Price for the 245-45-17

Great grip - terrible wear – I ran these on a ve ssv commodore and while they gripped very well and were quiet the wear rate was shocking. after only 10 000kms i doubt they would pass a rego inspection. very disappointed. i push my tyres fairly hard but got more than twice the milage on each of the 2 sets of bridgestone potenzas i ran previously Excellent grip Terrible wear rate

Excellent – I've only had these tyres for about 6 weeks and have done 3,000+kms on them so far. Having come off the extreme econo-tyre (Michelin's E3A, which has been super-seeded, and I did 92,000km on mine) I did notice an initial drop in economy of about 10-13%, but this appears to be recovering slightly. The two tyres are worlds apart if you get right… Read more ·  1

down to it, but I wanted the Michelin grip and performance without the Michelin price ($350 for new Energys in my size).

I got these ones straight off the Bat with a Tyrepower sale for $195 a piece, and though expensive I'm hoping they do up around the same mileage because my car is very light, and the extra 30,000k's I get will pay for them, rather than if I'd bought a cheaper tyre. Stoked so far. Handles well in the wet, looks similar to the Michelin Energy E3A, nice and strong, pretty grippy in all situations so far. GREAT water dispersion. For some people it might not be aesthetic enough, and in the first 3,000km since I've had them have noticed about a 10% drop in economy, but seems to be slowly recovering as the tyres get comfortable on the car.