{"id":7676,"date":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetirelab.com\/mag\/tire-rack-tyre-test-2026-215-55-r17-vredestein-quatrac\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:08:10","slug":"tire-rack-tyre-test-2026-215-55-r17-vredestein-quatrac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/tire-rack-tyre-test-2026-215-55-r17-vredestein-quatrac\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire Rack tyre test 2026: 215\/55 R17 \u2014 Vredestein Quatrac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tire Rack compared 10 tyres in size 215\/55 R17.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota Camry \u00b7 215\/55 R17<\/p>\n<p>The original comparison includes several tyre categories. The categories have separate result pages.<\/p>\n<p>The all-season group includes both all-weather tyres with a severe-snow marking and conventional all-season tyres.<\/p>\n<h2>Results \u2014 all-season tyres<\/h2>\n<p>Positions and percentages follow the Tyre Reviews result grid, which applies its own weighting to the original measurements.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Vredestein Quatrac<\/strong> \u2014 93.9% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Vredestein Quatrac is in position 1 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 93.9%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: ice (81.5%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin CrossClimate 2 A\/W<\/strong> \u2014 92.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin CrossClimate 2 A\/W is in position 2 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 92.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: ice (77.7%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Primacy Tour AS<\/strong> \u2014 89.9% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Primacy Tour AS is in position 3 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 89.9%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: dry (99.1%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: ice (73.8%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridgestone WeatherPeak<\/strong> \u2014 86.3% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Bridgestone WeatherPeak is in position 4 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 86.3%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: snow (92.2%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: ice (76.4%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin Defender 2<\/strong> \u2014 85.6% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin Defender 2 is in position 5 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 85.6%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (96.9%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: snow (74.3%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Results \u2014 winter tyres<\/h2>\n<p>The first tyre is the editorial winner. Remaining positions follow the Tyre Reviews weighted grid.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Continental VikingContact 8<\/strong> \u2014 86.1% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Continental VikingContact 8 is in position 1 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 86.1%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (98.4%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (79.0%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vredestein Wintrac Pro+<\/strong> \u2014 90.6% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Vredestein Wintrac Pro+ is in position 2 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 90.6%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: wet (92.8%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: ice (78.1%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridgestone Blizzak WS90<\/strong> \u2014 88.5% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Bridgestone Blizzak WS90 is in position 3 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 88.5%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: ice (100.0%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (79.1%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelin X-Ice Snow<\/strong> \u2014 83.0% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>Michelin X-Ice Snow is in position 4 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 83.0%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: snow (99.1%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (72.2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>General Altimax Arctic 12<\/strong> \u2014 82.8% Tyre Reviews weighted score\n<p>General Altimax Arctic 12 is in position 5 of 5 in this result list. Its weighted grid score is 82.8%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest category score: comfort (93.8%).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest category score: wet (76.1%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The original test contains the raw measurements and full methodology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tirerack.com\/tires\/tests\/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=353\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>HJUdall \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC0) \u00b7 https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:25_Toyota_Camry_SE.jpg<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tire Rack compared 10 tyres in size 215\/55 R17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetyrelab.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}