Pirelli get a hammering eh? but the rest is what I'd expect - the cheaper, lesser known brands don't do well in the wet - where top heavy vans need it most............
OK to use same tyre sizes all round on a 2WD?
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Interesting though that in wet braking test (one I consider to be just a little bit critical) the Kumho came out best.
In most other situations - (wet cornering, aquaplaning, etc) the control is in your hands and you can choose to play safe or push things too far if you want.
But wet braking is usually a situation forced on you by somebody else's actions. You can be tootling along quite happily, well within your personal comfort zone, until somebody else does something silly. A child runs out from between parked cars or a silly old duffer (male or female or even not old) can't see a Bongo coming and turns right in front of it, (I know, I know, they are so big and obvious it could never happen!) then you have to rely on the tyres abilities.
In that instance it is interesting to see that an £85 Korean tyre outperforms a £132 French one.
In most other situations - (wet cornering, aquaplaning, etc) the control is in your hands and you can choose to play safe or push things too far if you want.
But wet braking is usually a situation forced on you by somebody else's actions. You can be tootling along quite happily, well within your personal comfort zone, until somebody else does something silly. A child runs out from between parked cars or a silly old duffer (male or female or even not old) can't see a Bongo coming and turns right in front of it, (I know, I know, they are so big and obvious it could never happen!) then you have to rely on the tyres abilities.
In that instance it is interesting to see that an £85 Korean tyre outperforms a £132 French one.