* Hey, You look like the Michelin Man! . .

Advantages: Very good grip in all weather, especially in the wet.
Disadvantages: The cost and fact that they wear faster.

...Two French brothers called Edouard and Andre Michelin, owned a rubber factory. One day, a cyclist with a punctured pneumatic tyre arrived at their factory. This tyre was glued to the rim, and It took over 3 hours to remove it and repair the tyre, which then had to be left overnight to dry. The next day, they took the repaired bicycle into the yard for testing. After several hundred Meters, the repair failed. Despite this setback, they were still enthusiastic about this pneumatic tyre, and proceeded to made their, own, which didn't need glueing onto the rim. In 1891, they took out the first patent for a removable pneumatic tyre. The rest as they say, is history. I was lucky enough to buy a car with these fitted, and I can say the amount of grip is brilliant. They do cost more than most tyres, and the noise is slightly louder, but...

smudgeybabes 01.12.2008 (02.12.2008) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Michelin Pilot Sport

Michelin Tyres

Advantages: Well known brand
Disadvantages: Go out of shape.

...Over the years, I reckon I have had most makes and brands attached to my car. From this I have been able to be more picky and choosey when buying my new tyres. I now know whats good, whats bad and what is worth avoiding. Michelin boast being one of the 2 tyre suppliers to the Formula 1 world championship. Yet it fails to pass its lessons leared from the track to the consumer. As much praise as people want to heap on the French Tyre giant, Michelin have always failed to meet my expectations. I have had these tyres twice. Once through coming with my new car and once through buying them as a replacement. When we had our new Ford Escort, it came with Michellin XT all around. 175/70/13's were the size we had. Soon we were experiencing problems with ride quality, particularly under braking or at high speeds. After several...

andycharger 07.11.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Michelin Tyres

Michelin Energys

Advantages: Long lasting, brilliant grip
Disadvantages: None!

...Michelin Energy A tyre designed to reduce running costs and respects the environment with these tyres on your car is said to use less fuel and last longer than other brands. On a wet road they help make a shorter stopping distance making them a super safe tyre to have on your car. These tyres are designed for, city cars, MPV and family cars. These come as standard on my model of car so have been using this the 2 and a half years I have had it, I have found them to be a brilliant tyre, very long lasting and keeping grip right un-till the end of their lifespan. They also wear evenly so if you buy a set as long as none become damaged they should all be ready for being replaced at around the same time. They are not at all road noisy and do not pull the car around at all. They are very good in the wet maybe no as good as they are...

Hsaxo 22.03.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Michelin Energy MXV4 Plus XSE

A little help from the Michelin Man

Advantages: Quick, up to date, free, useful
Disadvantages: Som countries not completely covered

...Essentially this is a site run by the well known tyre people, Michelin to help you with various aspects of road travel throughout the whole of Europe. The home page is fairly clearly laid out, with the obvious sections easy to identify - Driving Directions, Maps, Traffic, Weather and The Michelin Guides. Driving Directions - If you are planning a trip, no matter what the distance, with this option you can get a plan of which roads to take. Simply enter a road, or town / area, and the same for your destination, click ok and in a few seconds it creates a route plan for you. The summary will tell you the distance and travel time. You can select km or miles. You can enter the price per litre for fuel, and your average fuel consumption, and it will work out an approximate cost for the journey too, plus take into account any toll roads...

Kingseany 02.07.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Via Michelin

* Michelin man sat nav is - very good. . .

Advantages: Simple operation. Price.
Disadvantages: None found.

...ViaMichelin Navigation X-960 New Edition - Good time to buy. I recently had a scare, when my trusty TomTom threw a wobbler, and I thought I would need to replace it, I had chance to look around, and remember looking at this particular model, mainly because it looked like my TomTom, I assume it was a copy. I am not saying this is a bad thing, let someone else decide what the customer wants and then provide just that.again, I am pleased to say my TomTom is in working order so I do not need to replace it, if and when I do however, I may well go for this model. At less than £90 it has to be a bargain. This is the cheapest price I could find brand new, so you could get a real good second hand bargain. The basic idea is the same as most of these gizmos, there is a touchscreen, a mains or car charger, a USB lead for connecting to a PC...

smudgeybabes 18.02.2008 (10.01.2009) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of ViaMichelin X-960

Via Michelin for the Palm PDA

Advantages: Value for Money, quality of Maps and amount of POIs
Disadvantages: Some locations aren't available, can be unreliable

...Via Michelin Navigation Package for the Palm PDA How I Came to Own this Product I was going away to university after my summer break and I planned on taking my car with me, for the first time ever. Being a not very confident driver I was planning on writing and rewriting the directions. With my birthday coming up I was constantly being bothered with the one question that I dread; "what would you like?" This particular year I was completely out of ideas, I had a tv that worked fine, my hifi was still hanging on, my car stereo had just been fixed, there was no beauty products that I wanted and I had more clothes than I knew what to do with. It was my mum who suggested to me getting a Palm PDA. "But what would I do with it?" she pondered the question for a while before picking hers up and showing me; "it...

sianciao 31.07.2007 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of ViaMichelin GPS Navigation Pack

The michelin S12 starcross. Motocross tyre

Advantages: One of the best Motocross tyres you can buy.
Disadvantages: The high price!

...The michelin are a well known tyre brand in the motocycle backround. Although they come with a heafty price tag you cant really skimp on a quality tyre, after all on a motorbike you've only got the conatct surface of a human foot on the ground,so a quality tyre can help. A back tyre will set you back around £50. Depending on the surface that you use it on the tyre will generally last a few months of riding. If you feel the tyre when its on the bike its quite soft yet it does the job well. You can see why most of the top riders use this tyre, the pattern is unique.as the name donates it in the shape of a star, providing bloody good grip. I put the tyre on myself although i wouldn't reccomend it, got a few cuts and bruises to show for it, After that i found i pinched the inner tube TWICE, so i gave in and took it to tyre fitter...

pug508 21.05.2005 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Michelin Tyres

Michelin Paylot for poor quality

Advantages: Cheap and excellent grip when new
Disadvantages: Grip isn't as good when the tyres are older

...I bough a new Clio over a year ago and the Micheling Energy tyres that were on it were just about dead, so after a few reccomendations I decided to get some Michelin Pilot Exalto PE2 tyres fitted to it. They were only £60 a tyre fitted (195/50/15) was very happy with the price. At first summer) the tyres were absolutely fantastic, had bags full of grip and when they did let go you could feel it slowly and control it. As winter approached late last year the grip of the tyres didn't feel as good as it used to, even on warm days it wasn't the same, it felt like as the tyres were getting older the compound in them was degrading, and they weren't as good. Up untill that point I would definately have bought them again, but wouldn't now. When I had the tyres put on the car it had done 42k and when I sold the car with 62k on (11...

almarsden 23.03.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Michelin Pilot Exalto PE2 Tire

an overview of michelin tyres.

Advantages: excellent grip and life
Disadvantages: price,

...in my opinion, these are the best tyres you can buy for reasonable money, on our customers cars we see excellent life expectancy, toyota landcruisers with michelin MXT fitted (275/70R16) regularly see in excess of 80.000 miles out of the rear tyres, good considering these 4x4's are massive!! toyota avensis fitted with 195/60R15H MXV3A michelin energy tyres have excellent grip and also see around 50,000 miles from the front tyres if driven normally, we never have any compliants about tyre distortion or going out of balance, these tyres also seem t be the best constructed, and need very little (if any) balance weights to balance the tyres when fitting, for those doing lower milage, michelin tyres also seem to have the best resistance to perishing that i have seen, i wholeheartedly reccomend them and use them myself thanks for tking...

binnie_1982 02.02.2005 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Michelin MXV3 A

ViaMichelin X970T

Advantages: Light, sexy, Music player. Hands free phone via Bluetooth
Disadvantages: Unreliable, impossible to use, always lets you down

...Very disappointed! I have the French map only version with the latest software Vs7. I brought it due to the full European life time license for live traffic information including major roads not just the motorways as some have. Unfortunately to receive this information you need to be connected to the car mount and have its external aerial connected. This makes forward planning an testing experience of hanging out a window with a damp finger against the contacts on the unit while trying to tune to a FM signal. But back to basics. Version 7 was only released in the UK at end of October I seem to have a pre launch version . I contacted Via Michelin, not easy, and they have added a rushed French manual on line but its poor pictures and layout make it very difficult to use. it seems any changes to try and improve the poor performance...

danceman37 08.11.2007 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of ViaMichelin X-970T