Pilot Sport 5 TYRE REVIEW

Great performance and noise rating.

I don't drive 'on the limit' but if I did I feel there would still be grip to spare in the wet or dry. Plus there is minimal road noise. Definitely a tyre I will choose when the time comes to replace the rears.

Excellent Completely different performance

I was a little sceptical how good they'd be in vert wet conditions, given they are UHP summer tyres, but they have been really predictable and progressive in even very waterlogged roads. The dry performance is not quite as sharp and precise as the very best summer performance tyres, but very close behind and with a wonderfully predictable and confidence-inspiring feel to them.

Definitely a better performing tyre than the original Bridgestones.

Very grippy around bends, no understeer at all. Barely any wear after 8k miles. Confident driving quickly in very wet weather conditions. Overall very sticky and well performing all rounders.

Better wet and dry grip in all conditions.

Very well. Tyres perform great in all conditions bar snow and ice.

Very well. Tyres perform great in all conditions bar snow and ice.

Hard to believe but these Pilot Sport 5’s are even better than the Pilot Sport 4’s they’ve replaced. Hitting standing water at high speed doesn’t faze them at all, the different tread pattern seems to pump even more water away from the contact patch than even the superb 4’s did previously and the compound is providing superb grip and handling in the wet. Obviously in the dry they are beyond reproach. Only two ‘issues’,- They seem just a teeny bit noisier at 80 than the 4’s were and Although I’ve now done 3k on these I can’t be entirely sure (the weather has turned) but I think they might a teensy little worse on fuel/more grip perhaps?