Best 10 All Season Tires for 2023/24 - Tested in the Dry, Wet and Snow!

in this test we'll be finding out what the best all-season tire is for your car and we'll be including a summer tire and a winter tire to see exactly the differences between the three categories of tires as usual I have 10 sets of the latest and greatest all-season ties including last year's dual test win of the Michelin cross climate 2 and the Hancock Kennedy 4s2 I am testing in a slightly smaller tire size this year so I can get similar tie patterns I couldn't get in last year there'll be a pi

nned comment below explaining why some of the tires are missing some of it is down to size availability some of it is down to geopolitical issues but it'll all be explained below as always I'll be testing all 10 sets and the summer on winter tire in the dryer wet and snow and we'll be looking at rolling resistance comfort and noise levels of the tire to give you a complete picture and allow you to decide which of these tires is best for your own driving needs should be an interesting test let's

get on with the testing there are two schools of thoughts about how an all-season Tire should perform in snow some testers feel like an all-season Tire should be every bit of match for a winter tire and snow and you know what I don't really subscribe to that I think an all-season Tire in snow should be vastly superior to a summer tire but it doesn't need to be an out and out winter tire so we're going to hopefully prove that all of these all-season tires are better than a summer tire and well we

have spoiler alert as with most years I do buy a cheap tire a cheap Budget Tire and this year I bought a Leo Leo you know what it was absolutely fine it's about a minute and a half lap and this tile is about five percent off the best now subjectively it probably was a little bit worse it was just a little bit curious actually I don't recall ever having a tire that encouraged you to go fast but then ran out of grip really quickly it was a curious experience you felt like you could Hammer into a

corner and then you got there and you actually couldn't the next group of tires was the Toyo Hancock and univor now of the three the Toyota was probably the trickiest to drive just because it was a little bit peaky and a little bit oversteering whereas the hand cooking Union roll were two of the easiest hard to drive they weren't the grippiest but they were not that far off the best and they were understeer bias and that meant you just I felt it was the easiest hire for the average person to to

understand because you're going to in a corner a little bit too quickly instead of having to worry about the rear coming around like almost now not a front grip on these tires um you were just worried about on the understeer which is nice I guess that's the safe balance as I've called it before Falcon was six feeling a bit more like the Hancock and Union Rule and a little ahead of that was the Redstone in fifth the heck the Redstone did have a lovely balance it was a nice Tire to drive it was ju

st maybe a little bit looser on the rear axle than perhaps was absolutely Optimum but I keep saying this in Thai test these differences are small all these tires are getting pretty good now the top four tires were all very impressive all season tires for slow performance good year on Firestone essentially tied in third both stunning to drive the Goodyear was probably just a little bit better subjective this was a really nice tie gave you loads of confidence no surprises and you could just push o

n and everything felt wonderful in the golf I've I feel I know Goodyear as I'm sure a lot of tire companies do develop quite a lot on the VW Golf it really does show great Tire the Firestone good amounts of grip just perhaps a little bit peakier than the Goodyear and the top two tires posted exactly the same lap time so we have a joint winner and as is Michelin and clever I can technically say Michelin one stone handling twice because they're in the clever brand both of these tires were stunning

to drive we know the cross climate 2 is a very good Tire in this though and now it's sister Tire it's a slightly sub run the brand new quadraxa 3 is equally as good in fact I test blind as you all know I ran the clever quite early on in the program and I was like this has to be the Michelin because this is stunning and then later on I ran the micheliner what turned out to be the Michelin and I was like oh that's confusing now we've got two michelins in the test weird but I guess technically I w

as correct both been wonderful if I had to pick one it would probably be the clever but if I had to pick one tire for these conditions it would be the winter tire the Hancock winter Asept RS3 this tire just found grip where there was none sure it wasn't massively Leaps and Bounds ahead of dealer tires but it was the fastest but subjectively it was it was really nice to drive you could just feel the more rounded nature of the winter tire and as for the summer Tire well that was amazing for a summ

er Tire it got me around the lap and I didn't die so that's all I can be really asking for from a summer Tire in the snow you obviously had to be super delicate but you know what laterally it didn't I I want to say didn't feel bad but in the context of this test it felt awful but for a summertime it didn't feel bad where it really seemed to struggle was we've got a small hill here than the traction that the tire felt pretty weak so let's go find out by doing the traction testing would you believ

e the Michelin cross climate 2 was also the best all-season tire and snow acceleration just three percent behind the winter tire the Firestone narrowly beat the clever to second place and the Goodyear also proved to have excellent snow traction snow breaking was again led by the Michelin cementing its unrivaled snow performance for an all-season Tire with the Firestone and clever filling second and third spots the summertime had less than half the traction and braking ability of the all-season t

ies taking nearly 40 meters to stop compared to 18 meters of Michelin yikes that's the difference okay so if you're a regular viewer of the channel you'll know this is usually the part where I talk about the wet handling of the tires while sliding a car around a track sadly due to the watering system at the track I've used this year being incredibly aggressive the internal audio sounded like this [Applause] plus the fact that I couldn't get permission to film on dry handling this year as there w

ere prototypes on track I just figured it was best to talk about wet and drive performance to the tires here wet braking and wet handling lined up pretty nicely which is always good to see apart from the Hankook this tire was the best in wet braking but as it was the worst in aquaplaning it meant during the wet handling test it took more of a penalty over the deeper like the deeper parts of water than puddles it also had quite a lot of understeer which is an easy safe to handle feature of retire

and something tire companies designed for but it does cost you time the Goodyear Vector Four Season Generation 3 was second and went braking and the fastest around the wet handling lamp with pretty good aquaplaning resistance as usual I did wet handling twice both times blind in different orders and both times the Goodyear was clearly to stand out for me it was just lovely and grippy and easy to drive fast the vector Four Season Gen 3 is usually very good in the wet but in this size it's except

ional the Cleburn Michelin once again finished in very similar positions both of them feeling better on the brakes and during the handling lamp due to highlight Devils of understeer but both did have good aquaplaning resistance the Firestone was the opposite of the Hankook its sixth in Breaking four percent behind but was one of the best around the handling lap help no doubt by a good aquaplaning resistance and it was easy to drive and well balanced the Falcon was consistent across the two grip

tests but struggled a little more in the deeper water of echoplaning and once again I called the handling sporgy whatever that means which is quick initial turn but then it also felt a bit too soft and wobbly on the sidewall which is an interesting blend of characteristics it made me laugh that it was the Falcon again as it's quite a unique feeling uniral and Redstone were like chalk and cheese with the Redstone filling great across the lap and posting a good time but not being the best on the b

rakes or in the deeper water whereas univor was the best of all the tires in aquaplaning tests but felt very soft and uninspiring around the lap plus it struggled on the brakes sadly the Toyo Celsius as2 didn't seem to have any luck in the wet with the ninth slowest lap ninth worst wet breaking and eighth worst aquaplaning resistance and lastly the Leo was just lacking grip and braking and handling which shouldn't be a surprise given it's the cheapest Tower and test in summary if the wet perform

ance is key to you I'd pick the Goodyear or the Hankook as for the summer and winter tires well that was interesting the winter tire was a total dream to drive around a lap posting the second fastest time for the extra Sipes of the wintertime and it wasn't quite matching the best of your season ties and breaking the summertime has no sight so was the best in Breaking but it had quite poor aquaplaning resistance meant it wasn't the easiest to drive around the lap I think this is partly or mostly

to do with the fact it's an Eco balanced tire so the wet performance of the tire would have been traded off against rolling resistance and they do start with lower starting tread depth these Eco tires so that would have heard it in the aqua planing as for the dry the summer tire was the best and the winter tire was nearly the worst so that adds up as I've said sites make performance in the dry hard especially under braking and we've seen this again from the data dry braking was led by Michelin w

ith the clever suspiciously close behind I hope you're starting to see a trend here Hank cook was once again very good in Breaking finishing third with the Redstone quad tracker close fourth then there was a bit of a gap to the rest which was led by Toyo then Goodyear Falcon layer of Firestone and uniron as for dry handling Hankook and Goodyear were back at the front even beating the summertime which honestly on this occasion this one occasion might have been something to do with my driving I kn

ew I wasn't super committed on the summertime latch due to there was some surprise unusual traffic on the lap and once you've lost the lap in the dry uh the ties past its best both the Hancock and Goodyear were lovely and predictable to drive and while dry Handley isn't exactly what an all-season tire is designed for I did appreciate the performance of them Michelin and shot cover not the clever but the Redstone were close behind in third and fourth the red was a fun tire but did feel a little b

it mismatched between the front and rear axle and the Michelin behaved exactly as it always does with plenty of understeer and didn't really like getting hot but it's an all-season time we can forgive it for that the Falcon in fifth was slightly less sporty but I did write in my notes that the steering felt quick and disconnect but otherwise good so I guess that's just me saying sporgy again and the Firestone and Leo finished joint sick they did feel quite different the Firestone was well balanc

ed and good to drive and the layers felt sluggish but ended up on the same tire so it seems there's more than one way to get around the lap eighth and 9th were clever and Toyo and again uniral finished tent so now we've know about the wet and dry performance what about noise and comfort well unfortunately for this test it wasn't possible to do objective noise measurements due to weather we had rain I didn't have enough time but when myself and a colleague did subjective noise and comfort evaluat

ion which is just as important I thought as always when you're testing on a high profile small wheel size tire on a vehicle like the golf the difference isn't very small however if noise and comfort is your priority I would be shopping for the good years it worked extremely well with the golf with the Hankook Michelin and clever shot car Mission and clever were also very good if a firmer ride is your thing for some reason the Toyo was the firmest of the group The Summer tire was similar to the b

est of dual seasons and the winter tire was just a little bit noisier as for the rolling resistance of the tires well as I keep saying this is getting more and more important as Energy prices keep increasing electricity is going up fuel costs are going up so this is a key test I've put the weighting to 10 as with last year but maybe you'd want it higher the lowest rolling resistance Tire on the test was actually the cheapest delay which even beat the summertime Michelin was the best of the good

all season ties with the Goodyear Firestone also sneaking under the eight kilogram per tumbark and the Hancock and uniral both on actually on the dot of eight kilograms per ton the highest rolling resistance tire was the Falcon which was around 12 higher than the Michelin which equates to approximately at 2.5 to 3 more fuel use in the real world so the final order if you've watched my videos before I hope you have I always talk about score waiting which is boring but very important never more im

portant than for an all-season Tire there's different people want different things from the little season Tire because they're meant to do well in the dry wet and snow and really not any of the tires do perfectly in all of them for this test the main score waiting I'll be using has a lower weighting on snow performance than last year because I just think putting too much priority on snow isn't right for this category and I've put more on dry and wet but if you want a different score waiting if y

ou really want snow performance you can head over to the link in the description entire View's website plug in your own score writing and the results will update based on you in last place unsurprisingly was the Leo igreen all season and somehow it finished behind the summer Tire overall in an all-season test it was really let down by its braking which is key to safety as we know but it is cheap to buy and it does have a very low rolling resistance so if you don't care about grip and you do care

about money see what I'm saying in fact but really just don't do it in fact if you do we can't be friends because it it's not it's just not smart next up was the Toyo Celsius as2 again it lost out mostly in the wet and snow and while it was okay in the dry it really just didn't jump out in any categories and more work to do for Toyo but a good foundation the universe All Season expert was next it had the best aquaplaning resistance on test which is something we often see from unirial tires but

like the Toyota grip wasn't really up to the standard of the best in the group in any of the categories sadly the Falcon Euro All Season as210 finish in the seventh place I like this time in the dry even if it didn't give the most feedback and its web performance was good too however couldn't keep up in the snow and did have the highest running resistance as we just discussed it's not a bad tie but perhaps the tire more suited to a milder winter climate where you don't see snow often in contrast

to the Falcon the new Firestone multi-season was a very strong tire in the snow it was good around wet handling lap and had decent running resistance it wasn't the best in wet or dry braking which meant it couldn't finish higher up the order but it was a good effort from the Bridgestone owned Firestone brand the Redstone quad track finished in fifth place overall and was back flying around the wet and dry handling laps it was also good in the snow with its only real weakness being in wet brakin

g this is a good product and one I'm glad to recommend at its price point fourth to Second Place ended up very tight but I am highly recommending the next three tires because they're all exceptional tires fourth went to the new clever quadraxa 3. as I've already said clever is a Michelin sub brand and while it definitely says clever on the sidewall it performed exactly as I would expect a slightly cheaper cross climate 2 to perform which is attractive to a lot of people I'm sure it was amazing i

n the dryer amazing in the snow okay in the wet it was also very quite uncomfortable the biggest downfall when compared to the Michelin was nearly seven percent worth rolling resistance but as a cheaper tire than the cross climate too that might be a worthy trade for some people next up was the Hancock Kennedy 4s2 this tire was the best in dry handling the best in wet braking good around the wet handling lap good and dry braking and was comfortable it did lose out in the snow compared to the bes

t but as I said at the start of this I would rather have an all-season tire that's good in the dry and wet than one that excels in the snow that's why we have winter tires after all once again the Hankook has a balance of an all season Tire I really like in second place overall just 0.2 percent ahead of the hand cooked was the Goodyear Vector 4 season generation 3. like with the Hankook the Goodyear was a solid product in the dryer the best around the wet handling lap and it even edged out the h

and cook in both snow performance and rolling resistance the Goodyear and the golf worked beautifully together in all conditions if it just had a little bit more dry breaking it would have probably won the test it's another no compromise product from Goodyear something they're very strong at at the moment and finally who'd have guessed it the Michelin cross climate tour is back at the top winning the test overall once again this tire was best in dry braking the best in the slow had good levels o

f comfort great aquaplaning and a very low rolling resistance so is this the perfect all-season Tire well no once again not quite it was Sixth and wet breaking and ate them wet handling which is a common theme of the Cross climate too Michelin please give this tire more wet performance in the next iteration even if it comes at the expense of that snow performance and the segment will once again have an unrivaled King there's no denying the Michelin cross climate 2 is the best all-season time mon

ey can buy in the dry and snow but I just think wet should be a little bit more important in that sort of performance diagram the trade-offs anyway these have been the results based on my own score waiting but which tire is best for you as I've said head over to the link in the description for the tire reviews website so you can put your own score waiting in and let me know in the comments what you decide and what's Best of You also while you're on the tire reviews website please leave a review

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