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Review on Viatti Brina V-521 215/60 R16 95T winter by Mateusz Daczka ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Low quality, I will not buy this anymore.

It boiled over, absolutely. All my experience I drive only on Velcro (yakohama, nokian, michelin, continental, hankuk), but I have never seen anything like this. Used on a Ford Mondeo 4rest with 240 hp in the amount of 215/50 R17 95T. Rubber is very soft, insanely, to put it mildly jelly. I thought it was low blood pressure, but it's not. The sensors say everything is normal. Checked in all ways, everything is fine, 2.6. For 3 years of use, I lost 2 cameras, and in the first week of use. The side is torn with a bang about any small joint. Lateral drift when turning is very strong. But there is a plus, it swallows small roughness and irregularities with a bang, there is no noise at all, at any speed. Porridge kneads on any surface. She is not afraid of pure ice, but still worse than spikes. But since it is used in St. Petersburg and its suburbs, the rubber is not successful. We have almost no winter, the temperature is always in late autumn and winter around 0, so it does not come out of the jelly state. For races where I calmly turn at a speed of 60 on Michelin Alpina 5 on the second car, you should not turn 40 on this rubber either. (I thought there were problems in the car, but again no, today I changed it to the above Michelin and everything became super). So think for yourself. The ideal option for this rubber is temperatures below -5 and any surface when driving straight. The composition is too soft, overdone. A colleague drives summer tires of this brand - no questions, absolutely good wheels. But the winter is really sad.

Pros
  • -price - Swallows small bumps well - well balanced -behaves well in porridge -behaves well on dry pavement at -5 and below
Cons
  • - insanely soft sidewall (normal pressure 2.6 always) breaks immediately, without bumps -does not like turns at all at any speed, ESP works very often. - at temperatures above -5 it becomes like jelly - not durable lamellas (but the power of the machine can play here)