QUATRAC 5

<p>I do not have much experience with tyres. However, dry grip is good and wet grip is very good for the price (especially driving on mountain roads), but I wouldn't say it's the best (still exceptional for the price though). I have even tried it on light snowy days on uphill/downhill roads and it seems to handle that as well. I yet need to test it's longevity but so far the wear seems limited.</p>

A good all season tyre, acceptable to good on all kind of surfaces, good comfort and noise, wear is poor.

I drive the Quatrac 5 now for two years and 30.000 kilometers (18600 miles), they're decent all season tyres. Back tyres are down to 6,2mm on the front tyres are down to 5mm. One more important thing, the Quatrac 5 are extremely quiet, someone in the previous comments said these tyres are noisy, I assume his tyres were faulty or his car broken.
The fuel economy is amazing. The stopping distance in the wet and on hot summer days isn't the very best, but it's exactly what I expected from a all season tyre, so everything is fine. Would I buy them again? Of course I would, they're great.

This is my second review of these tyres as I ended up using my van for work over the past winter so clocked about another 15000 miles. I swapped the rears with the fronts and the edges of the fronts were fairly worn and I was suffering with a lot of wheelspin and dangerous braking. The swap improved the braking to the point of not dangerous over winter but it was still below average, handling also improved but on the cold roads I was still getting a lot of wheelspin. One particularly bad trip up north on a motorway run I was suffering extremely badly with aquaplaning even with around 6mm of tread left on them. I swapped them out after with a pair of Michelin cross climates which pretty much solved all my handling, grip, aquaplaning and braking issues.
I kept the worn ones on the back and they were fine for the rest of the winter with no problems at all there. Now it's summer I've switched those back to the front and inflated to 45psi cold to get the last use out of them before replacing with the less worn ones. The increased pressure seems to have improved the grip, braking and handling from what it was before. In the warm and dry they are better handling than the cross climates although still not as good in the wet or on the brakes but do seem better than before. I also had some snow driving with the less worn pair on the front before swapping to the Michelins and although they are not as good as those in the cold, wet and ice they actually worked better in snow for me.
The Michelins look at least half worn after just 6000 miles on the front so considering the cost difference I'd say the Vredestines are a better tyre unless you are doing a lot of driving in bad conditions. In which case I'd probably try the Goodyear Vector 4's which will be going on my Golf diesel this winter.
As I said in the last review the Quadrac 5's were pretty good all round for the first 12,000 miles, I don't think the Cross climates would even last any longer than 12,000 miles so the Vredestines win by default. The aquaplaning on the front with the hardly worn tyres is my biggest issue and the reason I won't buy these again. The newer version is supposed to be 10% better for that but that's not good enough. Make it 25% and I'd be interested. The Michelins have not aquaplaned once and they are down to about 4mm.
The worn pair still on the van is down to about 3mm tread after approximately 20,000 miles on the front and 10,000 on the rear. They are bald on the outside edges but still legal as you only need 1.6mm on 75% of the centre tread in the UK.

Very impressive all around performing tire.