Tire lottery - satisfaction measurement. What factory tires are on your Macan EV?

[Bennie]

My Macan 4 was delivered last week. It turned out to be standing on 21” Bridgestones. Clearly not my preference, because I always drove with Michelins on my BMW’s and also on my Taycan and previous Macan. In another thread I already wrote that the dealer wanted to change tires, but that would cost € 2,400. Moreover, I could nót return the (new) Bridgestones.

In my opinion this does not suit Porsche. You can tick everything, but you are at the mercy of Porsche when it comes to tire choice. While tires are crucial for driving pleasure. A lottery or roulette, which one you get. The choices are Bridgestone, Continental, Goodyear, Michelin or Pirelli. All with the indication N, but far from the same quality.

The tyre labels on the configurator is mandatory so Porsche has to show these differences. I looked them up and saw them confirmed by several tire tests for SUV summer tyres.

The table shows consecutively for 21” rims 255/45 - 295/40: front dry - rear dry | front wet - rear wet | dB front - dB rear

Bridgestone	C	B	C	B	71	73
Continental	B	A	C	B	73	75
Goodyear	B	A	B	A	70	72
Michelin	B	B	B	B	74	72
Pirelli	C	B	C	B	71	72

Conclusion: Goodyear is the best choice. Bridgestone and Pirelli are the worst.

I can confirm that my Bridgestones are stiffer than I was used to from the Michelins. Tests show that the Bridgestones have a higher rolling resistance. I think this is the cause of it. Perhaps I have no other choice than to change them for Goodyears. The lottery turned out wrong for me…

That asks for a poll?

 

[grizzler]

Received my car with goodyear, but 22 inch.
Never had a coice between tire brands in my whole car history, BMW M, MB AMG, Porsche, Audi and so on.

 

[ericf]

Is there any difference in how the tires protect the rims from getting curbed?

 

[Bennie]

Is there any difference in how the tires protect the rims from getting curbed?

My Bridgestones have no protection at all…

 

[PanameraFrank]

Received my car with goodyear, but 22 inch.
Never had a coice between tire brands in my whole car history, BMW M, MB AMG, Porsche, Audi and so on.

This. It's just not a thing. Just swap tires and sell the ones you don't like if it's bothering you.

 

[Diego]

Michelins here and they are my choice if I had to.
But I never had the “pleasure” to chose tyres brand with all my previous cars.

 

[DuckMan]

Having had some pretty hot cars and motorcycles over the years I can safely say I aways swapped out Bridgestones for Michelins after wearing in the Bridgestones during car breakin and then thrashing them throughly once breakin was over. For me it has always been the transition at high g forces, Bridgestones seem to have a smaller warning zone when loosing grip.

 

[TomO]

I won the lottery! Mine (on 21's) came with Michelin PS AS's. So happy......