Spec me some new tyres

Vince

Vince

Vince

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So I went to the main dealer yesterday where I had a new diff fitted to the car. On the way home I could hear what at first I thought was a stone in one of my tyres, as it turnes out both my rears now have nasty screws in them and one is deflating massively.

Currently the car (Astra twintop) has bridgestone pontenza tyres all round and I think I want to put new tyres on all four corners.

The wheel size is 225/45/R17.

Spec me happy...
 
Millage on this one is pretty small, it gets taken out mainly evenings and weekends and does probably 5k to 8k a year. I take it for the occasional spirited country drive but other than that its just plain old getting about.

I'm after a mixture of performance, value and not to much road noise. Just after the best tyre for my money without going mad.

Are the bridgestones any good?

Just been offered some p6000's at £96 a corner fitted.... what are these like?
 
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Personally I've no experience with them, but IMO you have three main contenders to consider;

FK452 - Cheap, perform well, reasonable road noise and wear rate - these are rated pretty highly around the internet. I have them on the ST, and whilst they aren't some magical super-performer, they aren't discernibly worse than the expensive super-premiums. They come in at £72 a corner for your size at camskill.

Vredestein Ultra Sessanta - These are in the middle, pegged as one of the best tyres for driver feedback, and only £85 a corner from camskill at the moment.

Eagle F1s - Holy grail according to a very many people, but terrible on wear from what I've heard - £87 a corner from camskill.

My advice would be to have a read through Evo's tyre test and make your own mind up - http://www.liam27.com/stuff/EVO_TyreTest_2007_GTI.pdf
 
Think im going to go with the Vredestein Ultra Sessanta, that review seems to like them and they are priced very reasonably.

It's a shame there are not more tyres in that test, as there are a huge ammount available and only 9 tested.
 
Its an old test, and testing tyres is time consuming.

There are tyre review websites, but they consist of consumer reviews so are never a fair comparison.

Evo did a new test recently, Fox posted up about it a while ago if you do a search - the selection of tyres tested was pretty poor though, apparently due to many manufacturers refusing to give their tyres up for test due to new lines coming out.
 
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