Tire Rack Consumer Reviews

Initial Review, 29,500 Miles on Tires
November 30, 2012

These are the OE tires for my 2010 Golf. As with most OEM tires, you would be much better off replacing them with a nice third party set that would likely be comparable or even better priced. The problems I have with these tires are:

1. Noise level
This is a really noisy tire. Maybe it's all Contis though, because the original Conti tires on my other car, 3 series BMW were annoyingly noisy as well.
2. Treadwear
This is the worst thing about this tire. At almost 30K on the car, tread on these 60K-rated tires is almost completely shot, and this is just a commuter car that never gets pushed to the limit.

A few of other notes.
- never tried going into snow on these (nor would I have in this car anyway)
- wet traction is just okay
- best fuel mileage experienced closer to end of tire life, as expected.

Bottom line: you can do better than these, and definitely do not just buy them because your car had them on when it was new!