Decent mid range tyre

ShandyAndy_2

I’ve always either gone with premium tyres on decent cars Michelin, Goodyear or Uniroyal, or cheap budget tyres on any bangers I’ve had ie Autogrip, Evergreen etc, not had much experience with anything else, car currently had Avon Zv7 on which were on when I bought it, fairly happy with these tyres, mentioned this to local tyre garage and they told me Maxxis are better but I feel this is because they maybe get some sort of rebate on them as they have maxxis banners up outside, roadstone eurovis sport 04 looked to have a decent review but again the tyre garAge said these were poor quality tyres.

Thanks in advance for replies.

flashg67

Avon are a decent tyre IMHO - always fitted on Rolls Royce as OEM - (when they were both British TBF)

Maxxis come under 'better budget' range for me - roadstone the same. Unless there's a vast price difference, or you're getting rid soon, then I'd be sticking to Avon,Uniroyal, Firestone, Kleber etc

angrycrow

I was using Maxxis hp5 when I had my peugeot. Good grip in wet and dry and quiet tyres. Only issue was the soft compound does wear quickly on front wheel drive but that may be my driving style.

My current AUDI A4 is running on Maxxis Victra Sport that were on it when I bought it. Again good grip wet or dry, quiet ride. Fronts have worn down fairly quickly but the A4 is known to wear out front tyres quickly. Rears have plenty of life in them. Will shortly be replacing the fronts with two more the same.

Only downside of Maxxis is finding a local supplier.

Price wise £76 a corner for Maxxis against £116 a corner for perelli P Zero.

Tokk

Avon's often seem to be competitively priced (atleast in sizes relevant to me), the ZV7 is a decent tyre at a decent price and they last okay.

It you know you're happy with them and the price is acceptable then I'd just go for the same again if it were me.

AdrianC

What size?

Roadstone are off-brand ditchfinders (they're Nexen's even-lower-end brand).
Maxxis are a step above, but I'd have said the Avons would be a far better bet. For mid-range, I tend to look at Avon, Vredestein, Uniroyal - they're rarely much above ditchfinders in price, but far nearer the top end in quality.

ShandyAndy_2

Thanks all, 225/45 r17 is the size, going on front of a Kia Ceed 1.6crdi.

Tokk

ShandyAndy wrote: »

Thanks all, 225/45 r17 is the size, going on front of a Kia Ceed 1.6crdi.

I'd always, always put the freshest/best rubber on the back!
If you're only changing two, get the previous backs put on the front.

ShandyAndy_2

The rears are cheap nasty evergreens put on by previous owner, although there’s plenty of tread on them I think they would wheel spin on the front.

k6chris

Tyres are the part of the car where all of the good stuff, power, braking, steering etc, gets to interact with the road. #justsaying

AdrianC

So buy a set of four...

https://www.camskill.co.uk/m54b0s16p0/

Out of that lot - Toyo, Vredestein, Uniroyal, Avon - all low £50s each.
They're the bargains - when you consider the real cheap and nasties are squeezing in under £40, the bulk of the ali-baba-by-the-containerload ditchfinders are in the low-mid £40s, and you've still got utter chod up the low £70s - where the Contis and Michs start...

Now consider that they last 25k miles, for the sake of argument.
Even £75 each is just one-third of a penny per mile. How much is fuel? How much is the total running cost, including depreciation/insurance/fuel/etc...?

Even top quality tyres are ridiculously cheap. Ditchfinder rubbish is a total false economy.

Tokk

ShandyAndy wrote: »

The rears are cheap nasty evergreens put on by previous owner, although there’s plenty of tread on them I think they would wheel spin on the front.

If they're that bad then I'd be doubly concerned about having them on the back - you should always have your better tyres on the back