Falken ZE912 looks discontinued: no new owner reviews or road tests in five years and no current EU tyre label.
Relative Score (0–100): the weighted average of the categories below, each 60% road tests and 40% owner reviews (comfort 40/60). Based on 0 + 0 road tests and 200 + 99 owner reviews. How we score
ZE914 is ahead, 76–66
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Tests – · none yet Owners 64 · 200 reviews
“Quote: Originally Posted by BobDogNdaHouse I just ordered some 912's (215/45) so I will give a review in a few weeks. I got them for $76 ea, but have seen them for $68, cant beat the price Thats a great price!!! What store did you see 215/45/17 for $68?”
Tests – · none yet Owners 78 · 99 reviews
Relative Score per category, 0–100. Open “Why this score” for the tests and owner ratings behind it.
| Source | ZE912 | ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | ≈ 67 (est.) | ≈ 74 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 66 | 81 |
ZE912: 60% × 67 (est.) + 40% × 65.5 = 66
ZE914: 60% × 73.5 (est.) + 40% × 81 = 77
No road tests of dry for ZE912. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.42).
No road tests of dry for ZE914. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.42).
| Source | ZE912 | ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | ≈ 69 (est.) | ≈ 76 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 68 | 80 |
ZE912: 60% × 69.1 (est.) + 40% × 67.7 = 69
ZE914: 60% × 75.7 (est.) + 40% × 79.6 = 77
No road tests of wet for ZE912. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.55).
No road tests of wet for ZE914. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.55).
| Source | ZE912 | ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | ≈ 69 (est.) | ≈ 70 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 66 | 75 |
ZE912: 40% × 68.6 (est.) + 60% × 66.2 = 67
ZE914: 40% × 70.2 (est.) + 60% × 74.9 = 73
No road tests of comfort for ZE912 or ZE914. The test half is the tested tires’ average (69): owners’ comfort ratings barely follow the road tests.
| Source | ZE912 | ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Professional tests (TWG score) | ≈ 64 (est.) | ≈ 69 (est.) |
| Reviews found online | 59 | 75 |
ZE912: 60% × 63.5 (est.) + 40% × 58.7 = 62
ZE914: 60% × 69.1 (est.) + 40% × 74.8 = 71
No road tests of treadwear for ZE912. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.35).
No road tests of treadwear for ZE914. The test half is estimated from the owner ratings, as far as owners and testers agree (correlation 0.35).
| Source | ZE912 | ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews found online | 62 | 78 |
| Category | Falken ZE912 | Falken ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Relative Score | 66 | 76 |
| Dry | 66 | 77 |
| Wet | 69 | 77 |
| Comfort | 67 | 73 |
| Treadwear | 62 | 71 |
| Handling (owners) | 62 | 78 |
Higher is better. The Relative Score follows your weights below; category scores do not change.
Wet grip starts at “Important”. Treadwear starts at “Neutral” here: road tests measured it for at most one of the two tires, so it rests on owner reviews. Move the sliders and the scores update instantly.
ZE912
ZE914
Per discipline: the average % of the best tire over every test both tires were in, and how many of those tests each one won. “Different tests” rows compare results from separate tests.
| Discipline | Category | ZE912 | ZE914 | Δ | Head-to-head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Also published by the testers (not in the score) | |||||
| Overall Ranking | Overall | #13/14 2011 European Summer Tyre Test - 195/65 R15 | #3/11 2017 ACE SUV Summer Tyre Test | – | Different tests |
Themes extracted from owner reviews found online — not the opinion of TireWheelGuide.
From Reddit, forums and review threads. Not part of our score
Community consensus on the Falken Ziex ZE912 highlights it as an affordable, comfortable, and relatively quiet all-season tire with decent dry and predictable wet traction. However, users frequently criticize its rapid treadwear, poor winter/snow grip, tendency to develop road noise over time, and softer sidewalls compared to dedicated performance summer tires.
“Well i can confirm that the sidewall is stiffer. The Ziex 512 was used a lot by the Euro car crowd to achieve the stretched tire look due to it's nice super soft sidewall. People have all been reporting that the new 912's don't stretch nearly as well and it's due to a stiffer sidewall.”
“I paid $90/tire at Sears, which had them in stock. I had the local Discount Tire store install them, which they did for free, since they couldn't get the tire in time for my road trip (let's just say that I'm a frequent DT customer, thanks in part to the ar eating tires).”
“the tires ride AWESOME, they are very quiet, comfortable, and handle quite nicely, but the only thing i dont like is the softer sidewalls, the steering response is delayed compared to the yokos, and the car kind of oversteers now... gay, but not enough to really notice unless your focusing on it, but they heat up quickly, and handle nice around turns, but now i feel like i need sway bars...”
Based on 50 community posts
We haven't collected enough community discussion about this tire yet.
| Attribute | A · Falken ZE912 | B · Falken ZE914 |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Summer | Summer |
| Vehicle type | Passenger Car / Crossover | Passenger Car / Crossover |
Falken ZE912
Falken ZE914
Winner: Falken ZE914 — better handling, dry and treadwear. It leads or ties in every category we score.
Falken ZE914 scores 78 vs 62 on handling.
Falken ZE914 scores 77 vs 66 on dry.
Falken ZE914 scores 71 vs 62 on treadwear.
Falken ZE914 scores 77 vs 69 on wet.
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Falken ZE914, 77 vs 69 on our wet score.
Falken ZE914, 77 vs 66 on our dry score.
Falken ZE914, 73 vs 67 on our comfort score.
Falken ZE914, 71 vs 62 on our treadwear score.
Every category score blends two independent signals. 60% comes from professional tire tests (braking distances, lap times, noise measurements), each result compared with every other tire in the same test and newer tests counting more. 40% comes from owner reviews found online, adjusted for how generously each site rates. Both use one scale: the average tested tire gets 70, the best 100. When a tire has only one of the two, the missing half is estimated from the other and the score stays closer to average; with no road test and fewer than five owner reviews it gets no score yet.
Handling is the exception: road tests measure it inside the dry and wet scores, so its own row comes from owner ratings only and starts as less important.
Community buzz from Reddit and forums is shown for context only — it never changes the score. Full methodology
