These tires have changed the way my 25 Crosstrek drives. I love how smooth and quiet my ride is now. Have not had a chance to test on wet roads yet. But I would certainly recommend these tires. I have always gone with Michelin on all of my vehicles and the Defender 2 did not disappoint.

With only 10,500 miles on our 2024 Honda CRV Sport Touring AWD Hybrid, we picked up a nail in a non-repairable spot (I spent 25+ years in automotive repair and tires so I know when I have to replace and not repair). Unfortunately it was going to take about a week to ge the same exact Michelin tire to replace this one, but my daughter has to leave to go back to college in the early morning. The option was to buy another set of tires and keep the 3 good ones. So that is what we did. The Michelin Defender 2 is a great tire with an 80,000 mile life expectancy. It handles well and provides a nice smooth and quiet ride. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is a noisy ride on my car (looking in the direction of other major tire brands that sponsors variations of auto races and monster trucks). Back to these specific tires though, the handling is great and my daughter that drives this car even mentioned that she likes these tires better than the orignial ones that came on the car. The tires are responsive and flex the way they should to provide a smooth and quiet drive. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for an excellent tire.

Reviewed everything I could to make sure mom is set up on something safe. Car O.E tires where Continental Contipro Touring. And they were wonderful but seems like these Michelin Defender 2 tired are going to take the Cake! Especially on the roads she's on. They gotta handle well in rain and snow definitely Michelin does both well. Hope the 80k hold up. The Tred is very thick and built well. Good for dirt roads as well. Very responsive on hiway. Thanks Michelin, for keeping mom safe!

This was original equipment on my 2010 Tundra, and it was used mainly for towing our 7000LB travel trailer. I just replaced with the exact same tire, I was very pleased to get 48000 miles from these tires with probably about 14-15000 miles of towing on them. The tires where very good in the rain and snow, and I went off road driving a few times with no complaints. many tires on the market where rated better and some even cheaper but why change a good thing??

These tires are great! I use them for 65 miles everyday through the center of the Pennsylvania snowbelt. Great traction and I hardly ever use 4-wheel drive! I'm on my third set now and have averaged about 55,000 miles before replacing. I didn't like the way the new tread pattern looked but it has made a big improvement on snow covered road driving.

Like others other reviewers, I had these tires as OEM tires on a brand new 2014 Nissan Frontier Pro-4x and had very early failures on all 4 tires. My tires had to be replaced a few weeks ago after only 13 months and 12,303 miles due to excessive cracking in every groove of every tire. Absolutely terrible. This is not an uncommon problem with these tires and BFGoodrich should fix it. There is a lot of information on the internet available on these tires cracking.

These tires have got to be the best tires for a heavy duty truck ever made! Truck is on it's third set as of 1 Aug 2017. These were the same tires that came with the truck when new. The originals got 74,927 miles out of them. Second set was purchased in May 2014 and those lasted 75,523 miles. 3rd set got a new set of wheels as well. So the real truth will be how well this combo lasts. Bottom line, these tires have performed EXCELLENT in all driving conditions from the mountains of Montana and Colorado to the daily desert highway driving and desert hills and mountains of Nevada. Rain or snow, they have performed great! The second set saw about 5000 miles of pulling a toy hauler. RECOMMENDATION: Please continue to manufacture these tires and consider larger sizes in a LOAD RANGE E. I would like to move up to a 285/70R17, but don't quite care for a mud or all-terrain tire.

I've purchased several tires in the defender range, normally lt or ltx but these are my first defender 2's, I can't tell you how impressed I am. smooth, quiet, and my fuel mileage increased over the stock tires. I like michelens because of the full depth siping, the tiny cuts in the tread where all the traction really comes from.

I JUST GOT A FULL SET OF TIRES LESS THAN A WEEK AGO. CAN'T REALLY RATE THEM FAIRLY YET. I CAN SAY THAT I AM ENJOYING THEM SO FAR. THEY ARE NOT NOISEY. THEY HAVE A LONGER LIFE THAN THE TIRES THAT CAME WITH MY VEHICLE WHEN IT WAS NEW. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A NICE LONG TREADLIFE WITH THESE TIRES.

I bought the Michelin Defender 2 with a $100 rebate in March 2023. Changed over to Michelin X-Ice for the winter. I highly recommend the Defender 2. It handled well and is very quiet. I've just changed back from the X-Ice to the Defender 2 so this will be my second summer on these tires. I'm sure they will be great all spring, summer and fall.