Tyres for a 3008

[4cvg]

The concerns with user anecdotal reports are two.
First, one mostly has little idea of the criteria of appraisal being applied. "good in the wet" means different things to different drivers driving in different ways. On TyreReviews' site, the user reports that I take most note of are by those who self report driving style as "spirited". Such folk are more likely lo have had the tyre at its limits.
Second, when one is buying tyres, it is from a range of possibilities & the decision is one of comparative merit on the parameters of performance one prioritises. Only the tests can give such comparative assessments. Users haven't experience of enough members of one's "medium list" to offer even anecdotal comparative advice.

One of the problems of tyre choice is that various criteria are incompatible & thus tyre-makers have to make trade-offs to fit the profile of performance they seek. Longevity & wet grip are one such opposed pairing. Another is comfort & crispness of steering response.
I drive mainly on "C" roads that fit the profile described by GiveMeABreak. I am indifferent to noise & am happy to trade off longevity to gain wet grip, & comfort to gain crisp handling response. So, similar roads but different priorities yield different tyre choices. Mind you, I rarely drive on snow. Were I to have a snowy winter, I'd have two sets of tyres/rims. If it were just occasional light snow, then Michelin's Cross Climate + seems to be as close as one would get to my criteria being satisfied in the non-snowy times whilst retaining reasonable performance in the snow.

[GiveMeABreak]

Do you find the inner tread wears out quicker on the fronts - if so set your front track to the maximum toe in allowed and this will help reduce this effect. It marginally affects the steering feel but it is a reasonable compromise to reduce tyre scuff wear I think.

No - nothing wrong with the tread wear on inner or outer sides - they just wore evenly all over - it's just that the C5 is notorious for front tyre wear!

@4cvg: Yes, I only really take the reviews at face value and attach little importance to them - but it does give me a 'rounded' appraisal from the owners points of view. I tend to look at the collated data of the tyre brand / variant and see what they average out at - knowing it will never be accurate for my own use - but better than nothing

[Hell Razor5543]

No - nothing wrong with the tread wear on inner or outer sides - they just wore evenly all over - it's just that the C5 is notorious for front tyre wear!

While the Xantia was well known for its' rear tyres dying of old age before they were even half worn!

[Dormouse]

I remember having a set of original Michelin X tyres on one of my early cars and they looked like they would last for ever - they never seemed to wear. Just don't drive on wet cobbles and try to stop - downhill in Edinburgh Old Town! Scary!