I'm sorry I don't have any experience of these, but ran Vredestein Quatracs for many years all year round on our S-max and found them reassuringly grippy whatever the weather.

I am considering some Quatracs, or alternatively Nokian weatherproofs for our Leaf. In my experience, Nokian winter tyres are superb, and well priced.So perhaps their 4 season tyres are worth a look.

As GB says, the Tyre Reviews website and Jon's YT videos are very good. From studying his articles, videos and reprinted reviews from magazines, as well as user-reviews from us drivers, the Goodyears are very good, as are the CrossClimates (plus or the originals), as are the Continental and new Bridgestone equivalents.

All season tyres have seemingly come a long way, especially in how they work outside of the winter and particularly improvements in mpg over the previous generation of them.

As regards those mentioned, the current thinking appears to be rating them as follows, from those of the main contenders that are more summer-biased (first) to those that are more winter-biased (last):

Bridgestone A005

Michelin Cross Climate Plus

Continental All Season Contact

Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen-2

This doesn't mean the Bridgestones are the best and the Goodyears the worst - what seems to be advocated is that in the warmer South (including most of the Midlands) of the UK, the first two are likely more appropriate because we don't get much snow; the Contis and the Goodyears more suited to the North of England and parts of Wales and Scotland that get a reasonable amount of snow and are generally colder in winter.

For people in areas of the UK with more severe/longer winters, other makes such as Nokian (Weatherproof) are perhaps more suitable if you don't want a set of summer and winter tyres (cost/storage issues/changing them from one to the twice a year). Other mid-price brands such as Vredestein, Hankook and Falken are worth considering.

Check out the Tyre Reviews website for tests, but also pay attention to the user reviews, as they can be a useful guide as some cars seem to be suited to certain tyres far more than others (not just because they may be RWD or 4WD), and if the location of the user-review is given, that can also indicate whether they live in a similar area to you for comparison.

Update:

Our local tyre places were a bit quiet in October and keen for work and we got a set of four Vector 4S G2 at what we thought was a very good price of £57.50 each, fitted, balanced, including VAT etc.

Tyres are date stamped 3419 so should be the latest batch which reviewed well in a recent UK motoring publication which happened to test exactly the same size (205/55R16H91).

We've had them for a reasonable mileage and they haven't given any cause to complain with normal driving in the variable recent weather (but no snow). However, they don't feel as agile/sharp/lively as the CrossClimates on my car although we expect the Vectors to be superior in wintry weather.

Edited by Pinstripe on 02/11/2019 at 18:04