255/40
R17
98Y
Featuring an innovative, new compound, designed to maximize safety and enhance driver confidence, the FK510 is Falken’s best-selling tyre. It impressed testers at German motoring magazine Autozeitung, who awarded the AZENIS FK510 the rating of “Highly recommended” in the 6/2016 issue. The tyre also received a “Highly recommended” from the German technical inspection association, Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung (GTÜ), and it has just been named one of the top three tyres in Auto Bild’s summer tyre test, earning a rating of “Exemplary”.
The successor to the FK453, advances in tread pattern and compound are designed to produce a tyres that can "keep up with the best of them". Falken have made the FK510 to be stable at high speed. The sidewall is designed to have a rigid shoulder for solid cornering, but a softer middle to allow the tyre to soak up imperfections in the road surface. This tyre appears on MSA List 1A.
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Based on tyre size: 255/40 R17 Y
Average price: £105.23
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Full Tyre Description
Featuring an innovative, new compound, designed to maximize safety and enhance driver confidence, the FK510 is Falken’s best-selling tyre. It impressed testers at German motoring magazine Autozeitung, who awarded the AZENIS FK510 the rating of “Highly recommended” in the 6/2016 issue. The tyre also received a “Highly recommended” from the German technical inspection association, Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung (GTÜ), and it has just been named one of the top three tyres in Auto Bild’s summer tyre test, earning a rating of “Exemplary”.
The successor to the FK453, advances in tread pattern and compound are designed to produce a tyres that can "keep up with the best of them". Falken have made the FK510 to be stable at high speed. The sidewall is designed to have a rigid shoulder for solid cornering, but a softer middle to allow the tyre to soak up imperfections in the road surface. This tyre appears on MSA List 1A.
Test Results
225 (front), 255 (rear)/45 R18 Y
245/30 R20 Y
"Still recommended" - strengths: Balanced overall performance in the wet - Weaknesses: Sudden oversteer in the wet, sluggish steering response and lengthened braking distances on dry roads, and a lack of handling precision
225/45 R17 Y
"Exemplary" - strengths: balanced handling on wet and dry roads, sporty and dynamic handling on dry roads, good braking on wet track, low price - Weaknesses: average mileage
225/40 R18 Y
"Good" - strengths: always in the safe area, wet brakes - Weaknesses: deficiencies in the wet, understeer more than the competition, at the limit a bit restless, light short comings in rolling resistance and comfort
245/35 R19 Y
"Good" - strengths: sporty dynamic handling qualities on a wet track, short wet and dry braking distances, low price level - Weaknesses: moderate grip and driving behavior on a dry track, reduced ride comfort
225/45 R17 Y
"Recommended" - strengths: good steering feedback in the wet, short braking distances wet or dry, safe and easy to handle - Weaknesses: a little tentative steering response, cornering Noise
225/45 R17 Y
"Highly recommended" - strengths: fast pace and balanced roadholding in wet conditions as well as directing spontaneously in the dry, very stable even at abrupt lane changes, hardly ESP interventions - Weaknesses: brake feel and cornering in the wet is not quite at the level of the best, high rolling resistance
235/45 R18 ---
"Recommended" - strengths: braking Best in wet, very balanced, reasonable - Weaknesses:
