which tyres for my first fwd car

[vonbeck]

Hi guys some of you might know i also have a skoda octavia vrs with just a little bit more power than standard
the question is, as its the first fwd car i`ve ever owned what performance tyres would you recommend ive read a few reviews and Michelins seem very popular but there is so many variations Any help and previous experiences would be great as im in need of some in the next couple of weeks
Cheers mi dears

[s2driveruk]

My Octavia is on contisport contact 5 and it is sooooooo much better than the pirellis it arrived new to me on. I've been so impressed with wet and dry grip, I've just shod the s2 in the same! Same 2ltr tdi engine as the vrs just I have the old man elegance spec to get the £20 year road tax as a trade for 0.5sec in the 0-60 time

[vonbeck]

Cheers
mines the 2.0tsi petrol vrs, 😆 it came with contact 4s on, and not really impressed with them.
But It is a smidgen under 300bhp 😈😈. So looking at something more performance orientated.Which pirellis is did you have I'm looking at the supersports but £135 a corner is a bit steep

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[s2driveruk]

the pirelli's on it were the nero's from memory. Ok in the dry but noisy in comparison to the Conti's and I thought really poor in the wet/damp, front wanted to just wash out with understeer.

Did you have the contact 4's from new and what size?

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

I'd go for Goodyear Asymmetric 2's from experience a superb tyre dry of filthy wet and not noisy.
Quality costs.

[vonbeck]

the pirelli's on it were the nero's from memory. Ok in the dry but noisy in comparison to the Conti's and I thought really poor in the wet/damp, front wanted to just wash out with understeer.

Did you have the contact 4's from new and what size?

Car was 3yrs old but tyres had only done 1500 miles the bill was with paperwork, size are 225x40x18 on 7.5 rims prices range from £135 for supersports and between 100- 120 for everything else decent

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[vonbeck]

I'd go for Goodyear Asymmetric 2's from experience a superb tyre dry of filthy wet and not noisy.
Quality costs.

Yes I've never scrimped on tyres always had good stuff got goodyear on my winter wheels on the S2 with veidestein on the summer rims 😁

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[s2driveruk]

http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl - pricing fitted for premium brands, should be much less than £120-130 per corner!

Some bed time reading
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accesso...tyres-20152016

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article...225-45-R17.htm

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article...-Tyre-Test.htm

18inch tyre review: http://www.evo.co.uk/features/16545/...-2015/page/0/4

[vonbeck]

cheers got the evo review 👍👍

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[John.]

Got Uniroyal wets on wife's VRS, she's not said they're good or bad.........but then she doesn't know she even has Uniroyals on?!

[S2central.net]

My missus cracks me up... she looks at her wagon the other day and asks me to check front right as it feels a little soft... looks fine to me dear, but I go to prove it with a pressure gauge and its like 0.2bar lower than the other side. WTF is that about ??? Mad stuff Ted.

[John.]

My missus cracks me up... she looks at her wagon the other day and asks me to check front right as it feels a little soft... looks fine to me dear, but I go to prove it with a pressure gauge and its like 0.2bar lower than the other side. WTF is that about ??? Mad stuff Ted.

Maybe she's neglected to tell you she's a "touring car race driver"?!

[s2driveruk]

yep no idea where she gets it from...though I saw some recent in car footage of here trip to the local supermarket

[vonbeck]

finally got sorted went for Michelin pilot sport 4s thanks for all your advice chaps