Last week had new Pirelli P7 ASII installed on my 2016 F Sport by Firestone. Immediately noticed a slight vibration. Firestone recommended I put a few miles on the tires to break them in and would check the balance if the vibration continued.

Put 250 miles on the tires, vibration did not go away.

Firestone conducted a road force balance and determined that 3 of the 4 tires were defective. Today they replaced the defective tires. After conducting another road force balance they found 2 of the 3 new tires were again defective. Tomorrow they expect to receive 2 more new tires from their distributor. Fingers crossed.

Shoutout to Firestone. This is a major pain for them and yet they continue to perform the extra work to make it right.

 

Pirelli sucks - between their ownership being in mainland China to the crappy bulged Skorpions I had on my wife's SUV. I will never buy them again.

 

Michelin and be done

 

Sorry to hear about your troubles. For me it came down to either the P7 II or the brand new and unknown Michelin CrossClimate2. Two months later I’m extremely satisfied with the Michelins.

 

How has your noise level been? Still as good as when new? I'm very excited for when my +s wear out that they will have a W version of the 2 out since I really would like it to be quieter lol

 

been talking about what you experienced to all the Pirelli fan boys,,, always goes on deaf ears..

Michelin pays for itself with longevity, safety, wet traction and design for performance.. thanks for sharing your experience

 

I bought michelins at costco... they installed me a few made in UK and a few made in US tires ! ! I hope the quality/wear is the same between both manufactures :O

 

In my experience the CrossClimate2 tires have been almost silent. Much quieter than my old Premier LTXs. I already have them in the w speed rating; the H rating was a little cheaper but I wanted OEM spec in that regard.

 

The worst part is that I could NOT get anyone to take responsibility for these 4 tires with bulged sidewalls (and no, it wasn't from a road hazard... my old school tire guy said he'd never seen anything like this before). Tirerack didn't want to deal with them & Pirelli wouldn't replace them without my buying 4 new tires from them while they "inspected" them.

 

Very good to hear no pun intended, they don't have Ws in my size yet

 

I am on my 2nd set of Pirelli P7's on the LS. The 2nd set is the P7 Plus II of which I have about 2,700 miles with out a bit of trouble. Now these are the 245/45R19's not the 18's. I got around 38,000 miles out of the 1st set and could have driven another 3-5 K on them. I also have a set of P7's (non Plus II's) on my 2006 SC 430 with just under 2000 miles on them again with no issues and they are in the 245/45R18 size. Simple Tire had a close out sale on them as the P7 Plus II were coming out. I just ordered from Tirerack yesterday a set of the P7 Plus II in the 245/45R18 size for my sons 2005 SC 430. I also ordered a new set of TPMS's for his SC. So far I have been very pleased with Pirelli.

Dennis

 

Update: 2 new Pirelli's arrived today, 1 of 2 failed road force balance -- defective. Trying again tomorrow. Comical.

 

Small claims

 

jdanielca

What size tires are the Pirelli's? Do you think the fact that you are in the Ukraine has anything to do with which tires are being shipped to your country? Are these tires 2nd's? Lots of guys on this forum have been running the P7's for years with great results.

Dennis

 

dude that is nonsense.
Thanks to this post, Pirelli has definitely fallen off my list of tire brands to consider in the future.
sorry again for your trouble