We've got the long term review of the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres for you today. Grant has been driving on the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 for well over 10.000km's now with his Renault Megane RS 265 Cup.

Having had a series of 'fast' cars, Grant is no stranger to driving on performance tyres and giving them a proper workout. We're meeting up with him to find out how he rates the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 and how they performed under different circumstances.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:23 Grant's Cars
1:02 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 1st impression
1:42 Steering with the Pilot Sport 4
2:50 The feedback
3:17 Recommendation

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Full Transcript

- G'day. Jared from Tyre Review here, and I'm with Grant today and Grant's been spending the last six months or so

- Yeah

- doing 10,000 Ks on the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 in his so Renault Megane?

- [Grant] Renault Megane 265 Cup car that's, yeah, RS sport car out of Renault.

- [Jared] Yeah. Right. So how many kilowatts has it got?

- [Grant] 200

- 200..

- All through the front wheels. So it can be a bit of a handful, but awesome car to drive, great road handling.

- [Jared] And you've got a tradition of having fairly fast little cars haven't you?

- Well I've had a range of them. Subaru WRXs, Porsche, some Porsches. Hey, few different things.

- That's not bad. That's not bad at all. So in terms of the tyre on this car, how do you feel like they've performed for your day-to-day living?

- Um. Since I put them on that was really a um. Straightaway it was a totally different car to drive The old tyres that I had on it really had no confidence in the dry, very little feedback. Since I put these on, feedback through the steering wheel was great grip levels and confidence with that has been awesome. Just been a pleasure to drive and total change to the way the car, car actually runs.

- Yeah, so for taking them for a joy ride through the hills.

- Ah, awesome. Yeah, it's a car that you can really push through the corners and have a lot of confidence, yeah you turn into a corner grip level straight away high, yeah changing road conditions through the corner, tyres just don't even think about giving up. I mean just hold on and hold on. So then the feel feedback through the steering wheel through those corners is just amazing.

- What's the under steer characteristics of this car usually?

- Um pretty, pretty neutral. Really?!

- Yeah. That's good.

- So certainly with these tyres on it's been pretty, pretty neutral. The old tyres. Yeah. It just was quite variable, I must say.

- And the tyres, had the old tyres seen some wear and where were they've sort of,

- That were actually I was gonna say probably 50% of the way through their life and they were just very, very horrible. Then they were average in the dry, in the wet diabolical. Couldn't wait to get rid of them.

- Really?

- Yep. Absolutely.

- How long that give, you've done about 10,000 cars now, if you sort of had to look to see how much longer do you reckon your car on these tyres?

- I look I'd say I'll get good 35000 K at least at this point in time.

- That's pretty amazing for that grip level in this sort of car.

- Ah, yeah And I look out to drive this every day to work, it's about a 70 kilometre round trip on open roads windy open road, so yeah. If I can do the speed limit, I'm doing the speed limit.

- Very funny.

- Yeah, it is a daily fun, so

- So who would you recommend this tyre for the Michelin Pilot Sport 4?

- In all honesty, general drivers, it's a great tyre from that perspective but if you had someone that wanted to have a bit more fun with a car that like this that you can actually have a bit of fun in it's a tyre that really suits that as well. I haven't actually had to go on the track with this yet, but with these tyres Just judging what it's like in the, on the dry roads. It's, yeah. I'd say anyone that wants to, yeah is a more adventurous driver if you want to say it that way. These tyres really suit.

- Very well there's a track day coming up on the 21st here in at Baskerville so we might see you out there.

- [Grant] That sounds like a good plan.

- So Grant, you know, they're awesome, they corner well, they grip to the road well. What are the downsides of these tyres?

- Um, probably really only noticed two, first one would be really that the road noise, certainly on, you know course chip sealed roads, the noise levels are probably a little higher than I might've anticipated.

- In comparison to these previous tyres that you love so much.

- Oh, not in comparison to others that I've had, you know it's just a bit noisier, but it could be partly the design of this particular car being a two-door.