[Superoo]

Had the Bridgestone RE050A's OEM and they were a great tyre but only lasted 33K. Changed them over for Michelin PS3's @ $240 each and found them to be equally as good with fantastic wet weather performance but again, only got about 35K out of them. Now on Bridgestone S001's (@ $280 each but bought them under a buy 4 get one free deal) and so far have found them very smooth but need to do a bit more wet weather driving. All of these are 235/45 R17. Hard to split the 3 purely from a performance perspective but the PS3's for the price win the value war. I've always rated wet weather performance as a key indicator.

I've been surprised with the rate of tyre wear on the Mondeo as the car is not driven hard. Might be a combination of FWD, relatively heavy/large car and my tyre choices but my XR6T got 55K out of a set of Michelin's with a lower treadwear rating than the PS3's.